I am trying to create a music video. I have two separate tracks of continuous video of the artist miming to the audio track taken from different angles. I have the original audio on a third track and I have successfully managed to sync both video tracks to the audio.

I now want to be able to transition from one video track to the other and then from that track back to the first. Unfortunately I can only seem to transition from the first to second tracks and not the other way round.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Ian

Hi Ian,

I think you will have to cut the clip between the two transitions using the scisors.

If you can not apply the transition "back to the first" you will have to cut two times and arrange the clips that your transition always goes from top to bottom.

Hope this helps - I do not have Kdenlive running to test it...
Cheers, A.L.

Thanks for your reply. I am very new to video editing and it all seems very primitive compared to audio where I can have many tracks running in parallel and fade between them at will. I had a horrible suspicion that I would get the answer you gave but that seems to me to be incredibly clunky. Are all video editors this primitive of is it just this one?

Cheers

Ian

Another idea is to use a composit transition and keyframes to show the higher or lower track using transparency. Then you do not have to cut the clip. I am not sure if that will work and can not test right now.

I do not know many video editors except cinelerra and Kdenlive. Latter is the most intuitive and easiest to use editor I have seen. Apart from using I had a look at many screenshots of other video editors and their reviews.

If you do not like Kdenlive, feel free to evaluate and test other NLEs (especially non open source) and make up your mind. You are "very new to video editing" - as you wrote...

Composite transition sound like it could be just what I need. Thanks for the suggestion.

The only other NLE I have tried is Pitivi (I am running Linux) but I was recommended kdenlive simply because I needed to rotate the video from one of the cameras (it was taken on an iPod in portrait mode and the iPod is smart enough to rotate the image on its display while you are filming but not smart enough to rotate what it actually records!) and Pitivi can't do that.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Ian