Dip to Color Dissolve

I am dissolving two of my video clips out to white, but my video clips are 16:9 widescreen and when it dips out to white the whole frame goes to white, even the black bars on the top and bottom. Is there a way to fad it to white just in the picture frame, excluding the black bars?

What camera is this exactly? Some cameras shoot correct anamorphic widescreen, others just shoot in letterboxed versions, basically masking the top and bottom of the image. If your material really is shot letterboxed and you're working in a standard 4:3 sequence, probably the easiest thing to do is to create a black mask for the top and bottom. You can either do this with a graphics application like Photoshop. You can also do it with either two color mattes from the generators that are cropped to the right shape for the letterbox areas, or you could use a four-point garbage matte on the color matte, making a matte of the picture area and then inverting it.

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The good thing about nesting though is that you can adjust the clips in the original sequence and then they'll update in the nest.
Else check this out too:
http://web.mac.com/andymees/Freeand_Easy/main/Entries/2008/1/23_Andy’s_Letterbox2.html
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I'm stumped here. It seems I can customize several dissolves and video transitions/filters, but can never get to save my 'Dip to Color Dissolve' to white (instead of the default black).
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Once you've changed the default settings for the transition in the Viewer window, you should be able to drag it into your Favorites folder in the Browser. Once that's done, it may help to give the "favorite" version a new name (like 'Dip to White") so you can easily identify it from the original.
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When my Dip to Color Dissolve comes in my black bars (wide screen matte) are trumped by the dissolve.
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Welcome to the discussions, Robert. Do you have your rendering set to Fast (linear)? There was/is a bug that causes problems if it is set to medium or high.
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Well too me it looked ok, but I have now adopted a work around - by using opoacity over a white background on a lower track which produced the desired result.
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Michael,
Seems like there would be an easier way to do it, but here's one suggestion that ought to do the trick:
1 Superimpose a bright green, solid color matte into the timeline onto a track that is directly above the transition.
2 Apply the widescreen filter from the other clips to the new color matte
3 Apply a Color Key from the Key folder in the Video Filters folder
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Enough handles?
#1 Transitions "Insufficient Content"
Shane's Stock Answer #1:
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Thanks Captain M
my bad, i meant "Violet Hill"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakDItZ7f7Q
this should give a better demostration.
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Okay, Tom. I'm learning as I go here. I've never even thought about any "properties" of either items or sequences before. I just manage to get it into the computer and edit. Thanks for enlightening me! I just checked:
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Vid rate: 29.97 fps
Frame size: 720 x 480
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
Pixel Aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
Field Dominance: lower (even)
Audio Rate: 48.0 KHz
Audio Format: 32-bit Floating Point
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HDD:AVCHD
Vid Rate: 29.97 fps
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Compressor: Apple Intermediate Codec
Data Rate: 15.5 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: square
Field Dominance: upper (odd)
Audio Rate: 48.0 KHz
Audio Format: 16-bit integer
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Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30
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DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic
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-gardner

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Volume, Dissolves, 50% - An easy one for most of you I'm sure.

Hi everyone. First time poster here. I hope someone can help me out. I'm a wedding videographer.
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I have 30 four-second clips on the timeline and I want to reduce the volume on all of the clips to -12 in one go. Is this possible? I don't want to have to keep on doing them all manually together?
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Message was edited by: Roman Bridger

Hi Shane
I did this and it's selecting ALL of the dissolves on the timeline. I wasn't thinking that far ahead.
I'm doing a highlights sequence at the end of a wedding DVD with footage that is copied and pasted into the end of the timeline from elsewhere in the project. This is the reason why I want to get rid of the dissolves and other transitions, so I can start editing this piece fresh. I suppose I could open a new timeline and do it in that.
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