Audio fade in and out

rollysons wrote on 2/10/2007, 2:32 PM
I am very much a novice and have just started to use Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 that I've had for a while but I can't seem to find out how to adjust the volume of a song during play.

I want to know how to fade the volume of music tracks in and out. I have a slideshow and I put one song on the music track and one song on the sound effects track. I overlapped them by a few seconds but I want to increase and decrease the respective volumes over just the overlapping area. I see how to adjust the volume of the song for the file as a whole, but how do I fade it out from normal volume over that final few seconds? At the same time I want to fade the other song in?

If this is covered elsewhere please point me to it.



Comments

Chienworks wrote on 2/10/2007, 5:18 PM
Simply overlapping the audio events on the timeline automatically creates a crossfade with the first song fading out and the second song fading in. This should be happening for you already if the events are overlapping on the same track.

If you want manual control, place the audio clips on alternating tracks so that the next one starts before the current one ends, but they don't overlap on the timeline. You can add a fade to the ends of the events by moving the mouse pointer to the upper corner of the event, seeing it change to a quarter-circle icon, holding the button down, and dragging into the event. This will create an area as long as you wish with a fade, either fade out at the end or fade in at the beginning.

If you want even more manual control, select each audio track and press V to insert a volume envelope. This will appear as a thin blue line running through the center of the track. You can double-click this line to add "nodes". You can then drag the nodes up or down to adjust the volume from one point to the next. Add as many nodes as you wish.
rollysons wrote on 2/11/2007, 8:01 AM
Exactly what I needed.

Thank You.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 2/11/2007, 2:16 PM
Perhaps a quick read glimps the manual or Help would be in order too ! ;-)

geoff
Chienworks wrote on 2/11/2007, 5:32 PM
Just curious, but which of the three things i mentioned was exactly what you needed?
pwppch wrote on 2/12/2007, 4:21 PM
I just want to add that for an overall mix fade out (or fade in), adding a volume envelope to the master bus will permit this with out having to add volume envelopes to each and every track (and to match them.)

Note also that you can 'automate' this fade out/in by using the automation recording mode of Vegas at either the bus or bus track level.

Peter