Abrupt fade in

I'm fading a track in using volume keyframes. When I play it (even after exporting it), it starts out silent then "snaps" up to full volume at the final keyframe.
Weird thing is, if I start the playhead somewhere in the middle of the fade, it starts playing at that lower volume then still snaps up to full volume; wherever in the fade I start playing it, it exhibits this behavior.

Well, it does ease in and out of the time changes, but if you have a substantial change it can seem a little abrupt. However, I do not see a way to adjust how long the easing lasts as we had in FCP 7.

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Get with the program

Hi.
Man, what a difference between iMovie '04 and '08. I'm getting stuck everywhere but still clunking along. I'm trying to use iMovie for animated slide shows from still images. There's not a lot of help out there on this application of iMovie. I've imported 60 or 70 images from iPhoto and added a ripple transition between each image. Ive added two songs from iTunes, but I cant get the ending right. There's about 3 or 4 seconds of song left unheard/unplayed after the last image shows.The whole thing comes to a rather abrupt fade. What I'd like to do is time things so that the last image plays, fades to black, the audio fades out, and the show is over.I'v been messing with the "manually fade audio"
box, with no luck. I also can't change the last transition from ripple to fade to black. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Ideas anyone?

Do you have an hour to spend watching and actively using the on line tutorials?
I was kind of lost at first too, but by utilizing the tutorials on line (over 25 if I am not mistaken) I was able to cut my first project in a few minutes.
Here is the direct link to the Apple Tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
This is the list of the tutorials you can click on:
One Place for All Your Video:
Importing from a Camcorder
Import from iMovie HD
Other Ways to Import Video
Introduction to the Video Library
Reorganizing Your Video Library
Enjoy and Rediscover Your Video:
Skimming Video
Trimming Video
Rating Video
Making Movies:
Creating a Movie
Adding Music
Adding Sound Effects
Adding Voiceover
Adjusting Color
Adding Titles
Cropping and Rotating Images
Sharing Your Movies:
Sharing to iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV
Sharing to MobileMe Gallery
Sharing to YouTube™
Advanced Techniques:
Working with Audio Clips
Working with Background Audio
Advanced Color Techniques
Advanced Editing Techniques
Using the Edit Tool in Advanced Mode
Marking Video in Advanced Mode
Tagging and Filtering with Keywords
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Adobe, please stop running from this issue! (GPU vs CPU anomalies / fades)

Adobe,
I have tried to bring this issue to light many times, and your own users have argued it ad finem, but to no avail! I am TIRED of getting terrible alpha blending (and opacity curve) results with GPU acceleration enabled, vs CPU. In fact, it is SO BAD that I NEVER work with GPU acceleration any more.
Here is the issue:
When GPU acceleration is enabled, you simply CANNOT do a smooth fade and/or cross dissolve. It appears to fade down smoothly to about 20% opacity, and then the next frame it will jump right to 0% quite abruptly and disappear. It's almost as if the fade simply gives up and switches off! Regardless of whether you use Cross Dissolve, or Film Dissolve the results are the same. Also, your alpha blending is all messed up, CLEARLY showing a different result when comparing CPU and GPU rendering outputs. Once again, this issue ONLY exists with GPU acceleration ENABLED. Switch off GPU/MPE and the problems disappear. But of course you lose the speed and other benefits GPU acceleration offers, which would be great to have! Especially seeing as I have also heard (from various other resources) that GPU acceleration can improve the quality of rendering out to compressed formats like H264. But we will never know that, will we? Because, every time I enable GPU, my fades and blending looks noticeably bad!
I have seen in various other threads that your response has been along the lines of: "That's just the way it is". But unless your name is Bruce Hornsby, this response is unacceptable! You cannot advertise a "great feature" of your products (in this case, GPU/MPE), yet when people try to use it and see odd results, simply tell us: "oh by the way, yeah, it does not work in a few scenarios, like fading, but otherwise you are good to go!" The way I see it: cross-fades (even fades in general) as well as opacity/blending are some of the most common, if not THE most common techniques used in video projects! Having an anomaly of this nature showing a DISTINCT difference in quality output when one of your fantastic "features" is enabled is just poor form. What is evern poorer is your responses (or lack thereof) related to the issue. Especially seeing as this problem has been present since CS5, and now we are STILL seeing it in CC!
Here is a thread which documents the issue well (even shows examples, and other details someone prepared for you to apparently ignore):
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/773441
...it was never addressed there.
Another issue which details it going back as far as CS 5.5:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/987306
...once again, never resolved.
Now I am using CC, latest version, up-to-date, a fast i7 processor, a CUDA supported card, and all of those go to waste because I have to have GPU and the mercury playback engine disabled to yield decent quality results.
I implore you, not just for myself, but on behalf of everybody here who has already addressed this issue, but has had their pleas fall on deaf ears: PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM. Telling us simply that: "This is the way GPU cards choose to render" is NOT ACCEPTABLE. It's just like me saying when I drive my car on the wrong side of the road: "that's just the way I drive!". Doesn't mean it is acceptable!
You may have won people over since Final Cut Pro screwed the pooch with version X... but I can guarantee if this does not get resolved soon, the issue won't just be isolated to the forums here. Expect to read about it in MANY online publications that I am sure your competitors will ENJOY watching!
Mat.

Indeed. Yes Adobe, please explain.
And here is an example of what I am talking about:
CPU only (MPE and GPU DISABLED):
This appears to be what I would consider accurate, as it is not only well blended, but the fades work smoothly thanks to it relying on the CPU...
GPU (MPE and GPU ENABLED - Linear Color ON - as per default):
This provides identical image quality/blending results as the CPU only benchmark. However, the fades are very abrupt, as per the original problem...
GPU (MPE and GPU ENABLED - Linear Color OFF, as per your recommendation):
This is your recommended solution. The fades are as smooth as they are in the CPU version. But as you can see the color, alpha and blending are VASTLY different. Actually, it looks HORRIBLE! The BG text is barely visible, and the foreground text appears to be more prevalent over the top of the back layer, making its fade-up quite disjointed and selective.
...So as you can see, the "solution" you provided seems to create more problems and/or inconsistencies in the overall output. Now we have no idea what is the "standard"!
I personally find these inconsistency's very concerning. And I am sure I'm not the only one. Please tell me there is actually a logic to this "solution" and it wasn't a simple duct-tape fix that nobody there at Adobe actually looked deeper into to see exactly how it would effect overall image quality! It sure appears that way!
I appreciate that you, Kevin, are not directly responsible for this issue, and you are indeed a representative trying to help. But please realize that for many of us here, we are LONG time Premiere users, with years of experience and influence in this industry, and this definitely isn't our first rodeo! When we flag these issues we do so out of a REAL need, which means the consequences Adobe faces as a result of not addressing these issues are equally as REAL! As such; I encourage you to expedite the process of resolving this issue, because it has been prevalent since CS5.5, and the fact that it is not been resolved and/or has been addressed poorly does not bode well for your overall reputation. Especially when you are trying to make Premiere the industry standard. Like I said, I would hate to have to look at alternatives, so give me a solution, because if I decide to move on from using Premiere, I won't be the last. And no, I am not being melodramatic here. If a piece of software cannot seem to get something as simple as fades and blend modes right (or at least CONSISTENT), how can the software be trusted to handle high-end workflows? Food for thought.
Mat.

Is there a way to fade music in iMovie for iPad2?

Is there a way to fade music in iMovie for iPad2? I am making a short presentation using photos - not video. The music soundtrack ends abruptly. Is there a way to have it fade out?

It shouldn't crash but it could be that your library has some user-agent detection that's going awry when running in an unknown browser.
You can always use the HTML5 WebAudio API to go beyond simple audio file playback.
-Mark

Function to fade audio smoothly from one level to another in AS2

Greetings all.
I'm a newcomer to Actionscript programming and trying to modify a Flash site template downloaded from TemplateMonster.com (which is an AS2 template). I've almost succeeded at what I need to do but have run into a couple of brick walls. One is that I've added a video player to the site and need to make the background music track smoothly fade out when the video starts and fade back in when it ends (or is stopped). I set up a listener object for the video player that works. It's the smooth fade of audio levels that doesn't.
I found an excellent thread from last year (http://forums.adobe.com/message/3236495) in which kglad address the issue of fading audio from one level to another. Since TemplateMonster's templates set up a master movie clip and then load pages to play within it, and I need to call the function from within the pages, I tried setting it up as a global function.
So when the overall site initializes, I have this:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcMusictrackHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var sndAudio:Sound = new Sound(mcMusictrackHolder);
var nMaxMusicVolume:Number = new Number(mcMusictrackHolder);
nMaxMusicVolume = 30;
sndAudio.attachSound("MusicTrack");
sndAudio.setVolume(nMaxMusicVolume);
sndAudio.start(0,9999);
// Here is kglad's function converted to a global function
_global.fadeSoundF = function(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,vol:Number,sec:Number):Void
     trace("Getting here with sound at " + s.getVolume());
     clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
     var volumeInc:Number = vol-s.getVolume()/(10*sec);
     mc.fadeI=setInterval(fadeF,100,mc,s,volumeInc,vol);
     trace("Leaving with sound at " + s.getVolume());
function fadeF(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,inc:Number,endVol:Number):Void
     s.setVolume(s.getVolume()+inc);
     if(Math.abs(s.getVolume-endVol)<inc)
          clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
Then within the page that contains the video player (a child of the above), I have this:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
var sCurrentState:String;
listenerObject.stateChange = function(eventObject:Object):Void
sCurrentState = my_FLVPlybk.state;
if (sCurrentState == "playing")
fadeSoundF(_root.mcMusictrackHolder,_root.sndAudio,0,1);
else
fadeSoundF(_root.mcMusictrackHolder,_root.sndAudio,_root.nMaxMusicVolume,1);
my_FLVPlybk.addEventListener("stateChange", listenerObject);
The listener object is working fine - so if instead of calling fadeSoundF I simply do _root.sndAudio.setvolume(0) to mute and _root.sndAudio.setvolume(30) to restore it works fine except that the volume changes abruptly instead of ramping.
But obviously there's a problem with my effort to convert kglad's function to global and use it that way, because the trace statements tell me the audio is getting set to random levels. It smoothly ramps all right - but tries to get to -472 or +8212 or other insane numbers.
Any help with where I'm going wrong would be deeply appreciated. Keep in mind that although I have some long-ago programming experience in other languages, this environment is completely alien to me and you can feel free to assume I'm completely ignorant. What I've managed to piece together is largely pulled from online research, which is why there's probably an obvious glaring error in there. Feel free to provide a response that assumes I know nothing.
Best,
Pete

I added a few more traces. Here's the new main page:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcMusictrackHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var sndAudio:Sound = new Sound(mcMusictrackHolder);
var nMaxMusicVolume:Number = 30;
sndAudio.attachSound("MusicTrack");
sndAudio.setVolume(nMaxMusicVolume);
sndAudio.start(0,99999);
_global.fadeSoundF = function(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,vol:Number,sec:Number):Void
          trace("Getting here with level at " + sndAudio.getVolume());
          trace("asking to set it to " + vol + " in " + sec + " second(s).");
          clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
          var volumeInc:Number = vol-s.getVolume()/(10*sec);
          mc.fadeI=setInterval(fadeF,100,mc,s,volumeInc,vol);
          trace("Leaving with sound at " + sndAudio.getVolume());
          trace(" ");
function fadeF(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,inc:Number,endVol:Number):Void
          s.setVolume(s.getVolume()+inc);
          if(Math.abs(s.getVolume-endVol)<inc)
                    clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
Here's sample trace output:
Getting here with level at 30                  <---- this is on first visiting the page where the listener object initializes and asks it to ramp the audio from its
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).             current level to the same level (probably because the video is buffering or rewinding and that counts as a state change).
Leaving with sound at 30
Getting here with level at 111                <---- this is a second triggering of the function (probably because the video is STOPPED and that counts as a
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).            state change after buffering). As of yet the video hasn't been asked to play.
Leaving with sound at 111
Getting here with level at 3765               <---- This is what happens when the video is asked to play; since it is asking to leave the level at 30 I'm guessing it is buffering
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).              again but not playing yet, which is why it's still being asked to set the background to 30 instead of 0.
Leaving with sound at 3765
Getting here with level at 3765                <---- NOW the video is actually playing, so it asks to set the background audio to 0.
asking to set it to 0 in 1 second(s).
Leaving with sound at 3765
Getting here with level at -41740             <---- ... and I hit STOP, which generates a request to bring the background audio back to 30.
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).
Leaving with sound at -41740
I should probably replace the if/else on the video player page with a switch/case so the function ONLY gets called when playback actually stops and starts, and doesn't get triggered for every state change. But I think I still have an error in here someplace...
Many thanks to kglad for your help!
Pete

Fade Effect working weird.

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trying to fade from "page" to "page" and all looks fine except Text
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the fadeOut alpha reaches some number. Am I missing something? All
help is appreciated.

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> In order to use Fade effects on text, the font must
first be embedded.
Or, if you can get direct access to the text objects, you can
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"Fade Through Black" transition in slideshows corrupts project!

I built a project from the ground up in iMovie. Shared this to iDVD. Constructed the whole dvd including a slideshow. When I clicked on "Fade Through Black" in the transitions menu for slideshows, iDVD abruptly quit with no error message! Completely quit.
I tried to open the project by double-clicking it and it would bring up a prompt saying "Loading themes", then show the iDVD window for a split second and quit again.
I tried making the iDVD project twice. With different themes each time, and still got the same result when I clicked on the "Fade Through Black" transistion. I had even saved the file right before clicking the transistion. That didn't help at all...

This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
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Fade to black, jpegs.

hello all, I am new to FCE and am having trouble figuring out how to add a simple fade to black effect to a series of jpegs, Im shooting stop motion with my SLR and want to add a fade out to multiple shots- not just the very last one. At this point all I can do it add the effect to the very last still image and its much to abrupt - i want to gradually fade out over multiple shots. do I need to merge the jpegs somehow? any-help is appreciated.
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Dear lukasdp:
If you let your eyes wander to the right hand side of this page, you will Mr. Wolsky's name at the top of an impressive list showing the number of responses he has made to struggling FCE-ers. You will notice that he is number one.
Imagine how much time and work that took.
I am sure that users of this forum would be quick to tell you that Mr. Wolsky unfailingly gives excellent and useful advice and, very sensibly, that does sometimes mean that he refers some-one to a useful and informative site.
Most users, myself included, are very grateful to this gentleman.
I have no doubt that movie makers world wide view Mr. Wolsky with unreserved respect.
I suspect that your are brand new to the site. Nevertheless, perhaps your next step should be an apology to the man who was trying to help you.
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How do I Fade in and out, working with Midi events?

I'm new to logic.
How do you set certain virtual instruments(midi events) to fade in or out. I have a string arrangement written, and whenever the strings end it is very abrupt and unnatural. I want them to fade out, as opposed to just cutting like they do. I would also like to know how to fade in. Is it the same process?
Please help me out if you know how to do this.
Thanks...

I'm not sure what you mean about fading the instrument and not the notes. I just want to fade out one note/per instrument at the end of certain passages. Care to expound?
In general, MIDI does not provide a mechanism to control the volume of individual notes.
In MIDI (and sequencer terms), a note has a note on, a note number (which key was pressed) and how hard you hit that key (velocity). Then a corresponding note off. There is nothing in a note specification that let's you control the volume of a note through it's duration.
In MIDI terms, you can use a controller MIDI message, typically #7 which is used for volume, and modify that over the time the note is playing. But this is controlling the volume of the instrument not the individual notes - the same as turning up and down the volume on the instrument. All notes that the instrument is playing are affected equally - if you are holding a chord, the entire chord will ramp in volume. You cannot just ramp the volume of one note within the chord using this method.
(The closest MIDI can get to controlling individual notes volume is with polyphonic aftertouch, but this is not often supported and is a more advanced technique - given that you are new to this I'm going to ignore it for now to avoid over-complicating things. I mention it to stop all the people chiming in with "you're so wrong Beejay you muppet you can do this with poly aftertouch don't you know anything" blah blah).
Is that more clear?
Also, if you wouldn't mind, could you give me a step by step on opening the hyperview in the piano roll?
Open the piano roll, select View -> Hyperdraw -> Volume.
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Sounds with fades not playing back consistently

Have other people encountered this, and maybe found a fix or workaround? The new fade tool seems to be extremely buggy. Sound chunks with fades on them only seem to play back fades some of the time. Very often the part with the fade doesn't play back at all, with the sound starting abruptly at the end of the fade. This happens even on the simplest sessions, and seems to happen often on bounce/export, even if the sound usually plays back fine in the session.
This is a huge problem, it makes the new fade tool pretty much completely unusable.
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I have a four minute slideshow using two different songs. When the second half with the new song starts up, it is too abruptly loud and I want to do a fade In. Problem is, whereas the grey fade out button appears for at the end of the last clip with the ending of the first song, the grey fade in button refuses to appear at the beginning of the second half with the second song.
I had the same problem with trying to increase the volume of the second half with the new song. The volume adjust handles refuse to show up on the second half of the slideshow with the new song.
Do you have a fix for this?
-L

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I've emailed (through the private message tool here) you our contact information including our Gold support contract number.
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Menu fade in

how can i get the entire main menu to fade in
i can only get the video track to. all the buttons that i create appear right away on the screen and then the video track that is set as background fades in.
i would also like the buttons i created to fad in so its not an abrupt looking menu
thanks in advance

look in the manual under setting a loop point in the menu inspector

Actionscript 1&2: Buttons that fade music out or in.

This is a real general question but I'll explain what I'm trying to ask for.
I'm trying to make a button that when you press it, you continue on to the next "scene." I know how to do that now.
I also want music to play when clicking the button but the issue remains, how will the music keep up if the user is pressing it too soon? I don't want it to end abruptly so I need a code that fades the music out (or in).
So what code am I looking for?

you need to create a loop (like onEnterFrame) that decreases the volume of your sound with each loop iteration. terminate the sound when not needed.

Can I get movie to fade to black?

I inserted a Youtube video into my project and used the slider in Widget, Interaction to stop it about midway through, the first part being all that I wanted to show. But then when I preview it, it simply stops abruptly and retains the last screen image. Is there a way to make it fade to black, other than going back and redoing it in iMovie?
Thanks.

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As always, feel free to use the 'Provide iBooks Author Feedback' menu item for features you'd like added in the future, etc.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html
Good luck w/your book(s) in any case

Adding cross fade reveals bit of footage I thought was razored off !

Hi,
Premiere Pro CS3
If I go frame by frame with cursor at the end of my video I see only the footage I expect. Lets call it clip C.
If I add black video at end of my footage and play timeline, I still see nothing extra beyond my video of Clip C, my footage ends abruptly and the black shows, but if I cross fade the junction then play, I see a bit of footage which followed on in the original recording on the camcorder (clip D) but was definitely cut off in this project, if frame by frame is anything to go by !
It certainly doesnt show when scrubbed or played prior to adding the cross fade. If I use Dip to Black instead of Cross fade on that video/blackVideo junction then it fades to black and no unwanted video shows up.
If I replace the black video with a video clip copy pasted from earlier in my sequence and cross fade the joint, then that bit of unwanted video (clip D)shows up again, fading out as the added clip fades in. As such if this was in the middle of my sequence I would be in trouble, but I can use dip to black at the end and not see it. As such though I need to know why I am seeing something not there until cross fade or similar is added.
Whats going on ? How can I be showing something that was razored off ? I never knew that was there prior to adding in the cross dissolve.
I also can see it if I use dither dissolve, and no doubt other transitions.
I have even dragged the cursor and whilst seeing a frame of Clip C, sliced the end off a bit more incase clip D was lurking in the end of my video, that should do the trick, but annoyingly its still there ! Remove the transition and it doesnt show.
Why ?
Envirographics

Hi,
Bill's explanation is correct , and I recently had similar problem with fading in and out, using cs3 and I found I had to do a couple things...
1) zoom all the way in on the timeline to see individual frames. Use "eye" icon to turn on and off tracks so you can see the one you want one at a time when necessary.
2) do the cross dissolve or fades using your own keyframes ...rather than the effect , and move frame by frame using arrow keys and look at program monitor to make sure your keyframes are in the right place NOT to show any footage you dont want.
You could just adjust the keyframes of the effect cross dissolve but I find it easier just to do it manually... and make the dip angle of the transparency line similar to all your fades if you want that similarity... In this sample its fades out and fades in, but if you stack the video you can fade one in as you fade the other out...which I find I have more control over than using the effect...but you can adjust the effect too if you want...
anyway, couple ways you can do it is the bottom line and you need to just scrub thru frame by frame to double check what you really have...and render it first...so its all green....no red in the cross dissolve areas...or you wont see whats really there.... the image shows all manual fades

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