<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:32 PM, <A href="mailto:Tiik@aol.com">Tiik@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="arial,helvetica"><FONT color="#000000" face="Geneva" family="SANSSERIF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">QUESTION: How do I get the transitions...particulary "cross dissolve" ...to work right?</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">I have 2 clips butted against each other...end of one, beginning of other. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">I drag and drop the "cross dissolve" to that point and nothing appears. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">The little silver boxy trapezoidy shape is not there. That is what the trasitions look like.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Command T does not work...it keeps giving the message "insufficient content for edit"</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Well... I take that to mean that the 2 clips do not over lap...right...</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">well, fine...how the heck do I get them to overlap when they are on the same track? </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">I expected to drag the transitions itself to the right and left</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">and cause IT to overlap the 2 clips.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "></FONT></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The clips need to have enough video OUTSIDE the in/out markers</DIV><DIV>too accomodate the transition. SO if you have two six second clips,</DIV><DIV>you set the in/out points to make them 4 second clips. Then you can do a two second dissolve.</DIV><DIV>Then you hilite the cut,</DIV><DIV>and select the transition ( dissolve etc.) from the menu .</DIV><DIV> When it's in, double click it to adjust in the preview window.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>