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poor dissolves in Premiere 6.5...

Tomtoxic
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Nov 11, 2005, 1:52 AM

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I'm having a problem getting Adobe Premiere 6.5 to add dissolves that actually look like dissolves. It seems the standard default 30 frames is woefully inadequate, and finished rendered product looks more like a cut than a dissolve.

I'm fairly new to Premiere and wonder if perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Anyone have suggestions? Do I simply need to increase the number of frames as my default setting?

ppatton
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Nov 11, 2005, 6:51 AM

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you can change the length of time that it takes a disolve to happen. click on the effect, in the timeline, I believe, and a screen will appear that allows you to change the attributes associated with the disolve

Tomtoxic
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Nov 11, 2005, 1:34 PM

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Re: [ppatton] poor dissolves in Premiere 6.5... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks ppaton... I kinda figured it our on my own after playing around a bit... my original post may have been a bit premature. Going from a very low end NLE program to Adobe can be a bit intimidating. I've ordered a book to help me through.
And of course this forum is very helpful.

ppatton
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Nov 11, 2005, 4:25 PM

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Re: [Tomtoxic] poor dissolves in Premiere 6.5... [In reply to]	Can't Post

I understand where you are comming from. You can also change the default duratio of the disolve in preferences I think.
when you upgrade to pro .5 you get to learn most of it all over again. as they changed a bunch of the stuff up enough that it didn't come intuitively for me any how

Michael Colford
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Nov 15, 2005, 8:21 AM

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Re: [Tomtoxic] poor dissolves in Premiere 6.5... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Tom,

You don't mention which book you are getting, but let me suggest "Sams Teach yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 hours," authored by Jeff Sengstack. It's a wonderful down to earth text that covers from soup to nuts of the software in a language style that's conversational and very clear. Can't endorse it enough. Jeff's also written a book on Pro. I will soon be switching from Adobe to Avid Liquid, and this reference book will be one of the things I will miss most.

Cheers,

Michael Colford