PS3 Transition times

[Guest]

Sometimes I want a slow transition (a three or four second cross-fade for
example) - and sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't! I always make sure
the picture I'm fading TO is held, without movement, several seconds longer
than the transition - but what often happens is that I set the transition
time for say four seconds, and as soon as I try to save the setting it
reverts automatically to two seconds! I've noticed that when the slow
transition is going to work it's possible to set the desired time by using
the arrows. If the up arrow doesn't get me past 2 seconds and I have to set
the time by typing in a figure, then I know it's not going to work! What am I
missing?

 

[Guest]

Quick, before someone spends unnecessary time answering my earlier post! I've
just worked it out, and it's so obvious! The transition, of course, is spread
in equal parts over both images - a 6-second transition means that 3 seconds
of it must use the end of the previous image - and if the previous image is
less than 3 seconds, it's no go! I had some images which were held for only
two seconds, to hold a still picture at the end of a zoom, and it was when I
tried to follow one of these with a long transition that the programme didn't
accept my settings. (Mind - it still leaves me wondering what to do if it is
important to indeed hold a still frame briefly, after a zoom, or pan, and
also important to follow with a long transition?! Maybe someone could answer
THAT question!

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Quick, before someone spends unnecessary time answering my earlier post! I've
just worked it out, and it's so obvious! The transition, of course, is spread
in equal parts over both images - a 6-second transition means that 3 seconds
of it must use the end of the previous image - and if the previous image is
less than 3 seconds, it's no go! I had some images which were held for only
two seconds, to hold a still picture at the end of a zoom, and it was when I
tried to follow one of these with a long transition that the programme didn't
accept my settings. (Mind - it still leaves me wondering what to do if it is
important to indeed hold a still frame briefly, after a zoom, or pan, and
also important to follow with a long transition?! Maybe someone could answer
THAT question!

Sounds pretty easy--just add half the transition time to the "hold" time
and it's done. You obviously cannot make a transition without both
images being visible (to some degree) during the *entire* transition.

The bookkeeping problem occurs because PS3 treats the hold times as
*inclusive* of the transition, and you are thinking about it *exclusive*
of the transition.

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