In NTSC HD 1920 x1080, when editing, I use the "Quick Transition" button on the timeline to dissolve the video to the next clip or to fade to black. I "Export to device" with HDV. I record my movie on a Sony H1U but when I play the movie, the transitions are not fluid.  What can I do to improve my transitions?

FBVideo

Hi,

What does "not fluid" mean?  Does the video stutter during playback?  Does it pixellate?  Something else?

ciao
Carl

A screen grab of your transition in progress would be helpful. Go to the "options" tab in the forum reply field, then click "add/update", navigate to your image file, save and post. A png, tiff or jpg will work fine.

Hi Carl,  thanks for your answe.r

My video stutters, it seems that the translation is not linear, not smooth even when I fade to black. There is no problem with the pixels. What do you suggest?

FBVideo2010:

What do you suggest?

1. Make a duplicate of the sequence.  Perform all the following steps on the duplicate sequence.

2. Do a video mixdown.  Select whatever the highest DNxHD resolution is that won't fill up your media drive.

3. Replace all the video tracks in your sequence with the video mixdown.  You should wind up with a sequence consisting of only one video track.

4. Export to your device.

If the sequence is really long, you may want to just cut it down to a couple of your transitions and do those as a test.

Also, there may be something about HDV that limits what resolution you can choose, so if it doesn't work with a DNxHD resolution, try it with an HDV resolution.  (I don't know because I don't work with HDV very often.)