Audio-only crossfades for video cuts

AnthonyGA wrote on 2/26/2012, 7:57 PM
I know there's a Quickfade feature in Vegas that fades audio out and then in across a video cut, but is there any feature somewhere that will extend the audio tracks and crossfade them instead?

I've been doing this by hand, by temporarily ungrouping events and then extending the audio tracks at both ends of the events in question. Then I butt the video ends right up against each other to make a simple cut transition, and the audio tracks overlap and crossfade. I'm just wondering if there's a faster or better way to do this (?).

The audio in this case is just ambient sound. I only want to crossfade it to avoid any abrupt changes in sound. Fading out and back in doesn't work because it produces a noticeable silence for each cut.

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MSmart wrote on 2/26/2012, 8:42 PM
Try this, with your events next to each other, enable Ignore Event Grouping, drag the trailing edge of the audio for event A forwards the desired length, then drag the leading edge of the audio for event B backwards the desired length. Repeat for each subsequent event. Disable Ignore Event Grouping.
Chienworks wrote on 2/26/2012, 9:15 PM
Make sure that auto-ripple is off while doing this too.
Tim L wrote on 2/26/2012, 10:12 PM
There are some key presses that can immediately convert a "cut" (two events butted up against each other) to a crossfade or transition. The "/" key by the numeric keypad will create a crossfade by exending each event and creating the overlap -- so you have to make sure you have a little extra on each event for this to work.

I just tried it, and it appears you don't even need to disable event grouping. Where you have two audio events butted up against each other, click once on the line where the two clips touch. Now press the "/" key by the numeric keypad, and you should get an immediate overlap. The video events will be unaffected.

The duration of the overlap is specified in Options > Preferences > Editing > "Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds)".

Similarly for video, you can press "/" to create a crossfade, "*" (near the keypad) for a dissolve, and "-" for a linear wipe.

Tim L
AnthonyGA wrote on 3/6/2012, 8:32 PM
It works! I had been doing it the way MSmart suggested, but it looks like the convert to crossfade appears to do exactly what I want, which saves a lot of time. Thanks!
Ras4 wrote on 3/8/2012, 8:28 AM
Interesting. Any way to do this, if you do not have numeric keypad?