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CHAPTER 7: EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS ■

When we make the shift from linear to nonlinear editing, there are always a few

hitches, and the transition from multiple tracks is one of the trade-offs. Allow me to

elucidate: You build a show on video track 1. The titles are on track 2. Along the line,

your producer decides to dissolve from your video on track 1 to another piece of video

on the same track. No problem, right? But it just so happens that you have a title up on

the screen on track 2, so you’ll need to dissolve that out as well.

This is what separates a good editor from a precise editor. Some editors (and you

know who you are) just add a dissolve to track 2 as well as track 1 and allow the fades

to vary. That’s not precise. And besides, it ain’t pretty, either.

The easy way is to use collapse. Collapsing conserves tracks and allows for clean

transitions on a single track. Collapse can be used on simple two-track titles with back-

grounds or complex 20-track effects that need to transition to a single adjacent clip.

Here’s how to collapse tracks:

1. Using either of your Segment mode buttons, select the clip on V1 and the title on

V2. (If you’re using several tracks, click all to select them.)

2. Click the Collapse button and voilà: You collapsed all your selected tracks

into a single track. Now all you have to do is add the transitions to the clips on

either side. No worries about matching the timing and durations between the

two tracks, because they’re all rolled into one track now. You have achieved pre-

cision. Congratulations. Let’s move on.

So now you might be wondering—when you collapse tracks, where do they go?

When you collapse tracks, they become subnested. That is, both tracks still exist sepa-

rately, but they are nested underneath a Submaster effect. You can access these tracks

by entering the nest, which we’ll describe later in this chapter.

Submaster Effect

The Submaster effect is a great tool. You can add a Submaster effect and

nest inside of it by using collapse, or you can add it to a higher track to create an effect

that can be used over several clips.

For example, let’s say you have a piece with a dream sequence that recurs again

and again, changing ever so slightly from the dream sequence before it. You want to

maintain the same look over each of these sequences. The scene (according to the

director, who always has the last say) needs to be tinted blue with a letterbox over it.

For the first occurrence, you create tracks with the blue tint on V2 and the letterbox

on V3 with your video source on V1. Now you can collapse the V3 and V2 tracks into

a Submaster and save the effect as a template. That way, you never have to re-create

your effect for each recurrence of the dream, and you collapsed it into one tidy effect

that can be placed over the video as many times as you require it.

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