VISUAL QUICKPRO GUIDE PINNACLE LIQUID EDITION 6 FOR WINDOWS [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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Send a clip to the Source Viewer and remove any mark-in or mark-out points.

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Send this clip to an empty sequence twice so that the Timeline looks like

Figure 8.28 .

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Drag and drop a transition to where the two clips join up.

The transition appears on the Timeline colored completely red (Figure 8.29 ).

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Place the timeline cursor so that it falls roughly over the middle of the transition.

2.

Open the Trim Editor by pressing F5.

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Press the P key to select the incoming clipthe right-hand window in the Trim Editor.

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To remove the red area from the transition, do one of the following until all the red has disappeared.

• Press the right arrow on the keyboard.

• Place the mouse cursor over the right-hand window, hold down the left mouse button, and drag to the right (Figure 8.30 ).

  Figure 8.30. Trimming the incoming clip with the mouse.

  
  

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Now trim the left clip by pressing the P key again; this sends the black selection bar to the left window. Then press the left arrow key or use the mouse to slide the left clip over the top of the right clip. Stop when the transition has turned from red to gray.

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Click the Play Preview button in the middle of the Trim interface to see the result. Don't try to scrub with the mouse because doing so alters the trim points in the same way that pressing the left and right arrow keys does.

Rendering a Realtime Transition

Although the phrase "rendering a Realtime transition" sounds like a contradiction of terms, you have to remember that what you are seeing with a Realtime transition is a preview of that effect. With the right hardware (MovieBox Pro, or the AGP Pro card from Pinnacle), you can even view these transitions on an external TV. The quality is so good that you might mistakenly think that it already has rendered, but the clue is the slice above the transition (Figure 8.31 ).

If this is yellow, then you are looking at a real-time preview and you need to render this before you can create a DVD or output the Timeline to tape.

To render a yellow slice, click the Render symbol in the Liquid Edition taskbar (Figure 8.32 ). Place an X in the include yellow slices check box and all yellow slices on the Timeline begin to render (Figure 8.33 ). Once the render has finished, the yellow slices will turn green.

If the rendering doesn't start, check that you haven't previously clicked the Stopped Rendering button to the left of the include yellow slices check box. If you have it will read "Start Rendering" and the render progress bar next to the render symbol will not move.