Audio fading question

Eugenia wrote on 8/27/2007, 1:10 AM
When I fade audio using the little mouse draggable icon, it always goes from 0% to whatever-percent, and at the end of the track it goes from that whatever percent to 0%. I would like to fade audio in/out with the lowest being 15% of audibility, not 0%. How is that done?

This is a useful feature if you have a music track at 15% of strength heard on the background of people talking using their voice track, and when they stop talking you want to fade in to the rest of that music and incrementally fade to 100% music strength. Problem is, the music in the new split track will start fading in from 0%, not 15%, and that doesn't sound good. So there either should be a way to start from a certain percentage to fade in/out, or not split the music track at all and have variable fading in/out throughout the track... I just don't know how to do either.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 8/27/2007, 2:33 AM
The thing is not to split your files. You need to use volume envelopes. There is a nice tutorial here: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/trainingvids.asp?prod=vegas5. Watch 'Mixing Audio'. What you're looking for starts at 2'20'' so you'll have to be a bit patient.
rustier wrote on 8/27/2007, 8:05 AM
If I understand your question correctly - I believe all you need to do is set your (clip) overlap, click on the audio fader section, press cntrl / (numerical pad) [which in essence removes the fader], then click on envelope editing tool, creat the size envelope you want, double click to add control points to adjust the volume and move them as you wish to create your personal "fader". It doesn't matter if you split the clip or not.