Imovie cut away feature

When using the cut away featue in iMovie 11, the insert (or cut away video or still) pops on and off screen. Is there a way to cross dissolve the image (or video) on and off of the screen? I ask because I shot a Boy Scout ceremony recently and it would be nice to insert close ups once in awhile wile keeping the good audio track that I have on my wide shot. The insert is currently a hard cut and I would rather have a cross dissolve to smooth out the look of the video. Thanks for your help.

With your Cutaway clip positioned above your "wide shot" in the project , hover the mouse over the bottom left corner of the cutaway clip to show a cog wheel in a small blue box. Click in this box to bring up a menu. Select Clip Adjustments and in Cutaway Fade select manual and set slider to required fade time or click in box to set directly the seconds and frames of the fade.( eg 2.12 is 2 seconds and 12 frames).
You can drag the cutaway left or right to fine tune it's position or drag left hand or right hand sides to shorten the cutaway.

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Folks,
I ran into the same issue (I named it "transparent green screen", I hadn't a better name).
I spent about a week to solve this problem, since I needed it to build a marriage slideshow.
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Mac OS X 10.6.2, MacBook Pro 13" 2.26 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM
The Solution for the "transparent green screen":
I created a movie in AE, and put a green background into it. It was the pure green color.
When I imported the movie into iMovie I just got the "transparent green screen", not the real effect.
I some cases, by changing the background images, I could get the green screen to work, but it was kind of random. Which made it harder to solve it.
I thought it could be because of AE, some incompatibility. I went to Youtube and downloaded a green screen video (a woman dancing in a green background). I inserted the video into iMovie, and it worked just fine, all the way.
Then I tried to match the green color I was creating digitally with the Youtube video's green color. It didn't work either. The "transparent" effect was there again.
But when I looked at that Youtube video, I noticed that the green color was not pure. Because that green background was made in the real world, it was not pure, there were some shades of green.
Well, I just replicated that into the digital world. Modified my video's digital green background. From pure green to a gradient green, but very subtle, almost imperceptible. Just to replicate the "imperfection from the real world".
That was it. Solved. Maybe iMovie 09 needs that imperfection to work well. Using "pure greens" might confuses it.
Please do your tests. And let me know your results.
Regards and greetings from Brazil.

Have discovered how to split visual and audio tracks. However the cut away only seems to work with still images from iPhoto!

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simonjacobson wrote:
Drag clip over target, green plus sign appears.........clip appears at front of video, no menu option appears,
OK that sounds correct. Just to clarify, when the sign appears, as you release the mouse button (or whatever you are using), no menu pops up but the clip immediately positions itself:
at the front of the target clip, OR
at the very beginning of your project
Not sure where I'm heading here, just trying to get the complete picture.
I di it once, but not again, do i need to double click/right click or something?
No, there is no double-click or right-click involved at all. Just drag and drop, then select from the pop-up menu. You should be able to repeat this with no issues. I've also tested dropping video onto a still picture - the cutaway works on that as well.
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I know it can be done on imovie11 for MAC but not sure for the iOS version.
thanks!

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iMovie for Mac is at version 1.3 BTW
http://help.apple.com/imovie/ipad/1.3/index.html

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You might have had a damaged 'iTunes Library' file.
Look in ./Users/Username/Music/iTunes to see if such a file exists.
Unfortunately these damaged files cannot be repaired.
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If all goes well, your library will now list the 6200 songs.
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I have a fix - or rather, a workaround.
WARNING: It is lengthy, but still far better than starting a new project from scratch.
I had this same issue and none of my transitions/clips were at custom speeds, nor did I have anything else weird going on. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do within iMovie to fix this, at least there wasn't for me. iMovie is BY FAR the buggiest software I have ever used and if you haven't already spent hours slaving away on a project, you are so much better off using just about anything else to edit your video.
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YOU'RE FINALLY DONE!!!
I know this entire process *****, but if you're that far into your project, there is little else that you can do. Now you've learned your lesson:
DON'T USE IMOVIE EVER AGAIN.
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Hi there,
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