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iMovie increasing duration of transition

I am trying to increase the duration of a transition in iMovie but it is telling me I cannot do this for some reason.

Posted on Jul 28, 2023 7:49 PM

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Posted on Jul 28, 2023 8:00 PM

IMovie won’t let you increase the duration of the transition because you have insufficient residual media in the video clips on each side of the transition for the increased transition to hook on to. Increase the residual media by trimming back the clips on each side of the transition as much as necessary to accommodate the increased duration of the transition.


— Rich

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Jul 28, 2023 8:00 PM in response to avonanne

IMovie won’t let you increase the duration of the transition because you have insufficient residual media in the video clips on each side of the transition for the increased transition to hook on to. Increase the residual media by trimming back the clips on each side of the transition as much as necessary to accommodate the increased duration of the transition.


— Rich

Jul 29, 2023 7:32 AM in response to avonanne

I'm happy to help.


By default iMovie creates enough residual video in a video clip to support a 2 second transition. If you need more than 2 seconds, with video clips one needs to trim back the clip to create some additional residual video for the longer transition to hook on to. I know. It sounds counter-intuitive to trim back to get more.


With photo clips, the opposite is true. When you need a longer duration transition between two photo clips you increase the duration of the photo by dragging out the edge to make it play longer. So, you drag out a photo, not trim it back.


-- Rich



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