Title dissolve with color is terrible

After all these years I can't believe I'm still getting this problem.
I have a small corporate video I'm cutting; someone else's bad footage. So I'm cutting it up to make it presentable and to do so I have made several "chapters" separated by title slates (black type on white). They're very simple with a color on one track and the copy on another above it. All I want them to do is fade in/fade out while covering the cut between chapters.
Simple, right? Well, I play the thing back and not only does the overall image bump-up in value one degree when the fade-in transition is reached (the opposite when exiting the fade-out) but there is a jarring of the image as though there were a bad cut with a remnant unwanted frame that I missed in the edit (but there IS no cut!)
Why can't I get a smooth transition? I even out-put the edit hoping that would deal with it but the value shift and the phantom extra frame remain.

Thanks for the reply but yeah, no. That's not it. I was afraid I wasn't being clear about the problem. I still don't know how to put it into words, really.
Definitely not a handles issue as I'm cutting from one long clip so I got nothing but handles to work with. And I tried both opacity with the pen tool and the stock transition.
No it's what happens to the video image when the timeline indicator passes into unaltered video after the fade in/out. Picture the video track, if you will, and the rubber band has been ramped down from the track with the type on it in order to fade out of the type screen into the interview subject. It has one dot indicating the beginning of the ramp down and one dot indication the end of the transition to full transparency of the type. As soon as the timeline indicator passes over that second dot (out of transition) there is a jarring of the main video image as well as a darkening of about one degree (think: levels of grey scale).
In other words there's technically nothing going on with the main video image of the interview subject. It's somehow being jacked around by whatever means I'm using to fade in/out the type slate that's sitting in the video tracks above it.
I dunno. Does that make sense?

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How do you fill a text box in Photoshop?
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Toxic Cumquat wrote:
How do you fill a text box in Photoshop?
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Hello.
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/21177190#21177190
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Physician - heal thyself!!!!!!
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Problem:
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Apply the default cross dissolve transition to the edit.
Review the edit. For my test, this edit always seems to work fine.
This is a screen capture of the working cross dissolve transition.
Now let me show you what happens when I do a similar edit somewhere in the second half of the video clip.
As you can see, for the duration of the transition, only the clip to the left is shown. At the end of the transition effect the program out preview jumps to displaying the clip to the right. There is no transition.
Additional notes:
This second transition works fine with MPE disabled, but because if of my other problem http://forums.adobe.com/message/3725642 that I have with MPE disable it is not a viable work around.
Help?
-Ted

I too am experiencing this issue. AVCHD footage, GPU Acceleration, trying to apply a cross dissolve, and instead it randomly seems to see it as a simple cut. The Cross Dissolve is simply ignored... Adjusting the footage length, removing the CDissolve, re-rendering, etc. have no effect. For whatever reason, in that specific location on the timeline, a cross dissolve with GPU acceleration is impossible. Yet, in other sections of the timeline, it is just fine.
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I also see an issue when a clip changes in the timeline, (cut from one piece of footage, to another) the video will begin to studder, dropping frames. Framerate seems to drop to about 2fps. To get smooth playback back, I have to pause and resume the playback. Even if this is done very very rapidly, it still fixes the playback issue. it's just really annoying to have to constantly stop and resume playback everytime a video clip changes in the timeline.
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Now that the photo gallery in MobileMe is ending, is there another photo sharing site to which existing iPhoto albums can be transferred as is, with photos in the same order and with titles, and with minimal problems?

Now that the photo gallery in MobileMe is ending, is there another photo sharing site to which existing iPhoto albums can be transferred as is, with photos in the same order and with titles, and with minimal problems?

No. If you don't have the album you originally used to create the galleries you can do so by dragging the photos from each gallery to a new, empty album. Then when you find the photo sharing site/option you have decided on you can easily upload each album to the site.
Another option is to obtain a hosting service and create iWeb photo pages for each album and future albums similar to this photo page in one of my demo sites: iPhoto Book as an iWeb Slideshow. Or you can use the iWeb album page and have an album for each iPhoto album on it like on this demo page: Page-7 .
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I have a problem with color prints from photoshop elements 12. The pictures are too light and with strange colors. I have a Canon pixma mg615I0 printer and use mac os X yosemite. The pictures are taken with a coanon eos 550d in the color space sRGB. I hav

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I have a problem with color prints from photoshop elements 12. The pictures are too light and with strange colors. I have a Canon pixma mg615I0 printer and use mac os X yosemite. The pictures are taken with a coanon eos 550d in the color space sRGB. I have followed adobes recommendations and have tried both letting the printer respektive photoshop manage the colors. But nothing works. I see that there are different opinions about which is best to do so I tried both. I have the latest printer driver installed. Can anyone help me with this?

Do the following:
Print a test page from the printer. Perhaps the print head needs cleaning via its maintenance facility.
Let the printer manage colors, not PSE
Calibrate the monitor

Title dissolve with color is terrible

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