Cross dissolve not gradual

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Cross dissolve not gradual

Perhaps I'm using a wrong transition, maybe someone can point me in the right direction. When I want to fade in an image I use cross dissolve on the first image/video clip or the last one (not between two clips) and the transition from 0% opacity to 100% opacity on the last one or two frames is not gradual, meaning that the opacity goes from like 75% to 100% in big step making it look not gradual, or the opposite if it's the last image/video it goes from like 25% to 0% in one step. Does that make sense?

Anyone else noticed this?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 32GB RAM

Posted on May 25, 2017 11:13 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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May 26, 2017 6:54 AM in response to tarsier123

In the inspector

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Tom Wolsky

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May 25, 2017 1:25 PM in response to tarsier123

It's identical to an opacity ramp with shows an exact progression of opacity percentages across one second. I think the problem is visually an exact opacity ramp appears to be quicker at the start and end, similar to the way scaling an image behaves, appearing to slow down or speed up because it's a direct progression rather than a logarithmic progression. Try one of the other dissolve types in the transition inspector. I think the film dissolve might work better for what you want.

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