Can I batch apply fades to multiple events?

nolonemo wrote on 9/22/2008, 12:23 PM

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I have a bunch of events of variable length on the timeline, cut on the timeline from a single long concert take and ripplied together. I want to add a 2 second fade from black and a 4 second fade to black to each of of them. (I didn't/don't want to crossfade them because I don't want any overlapping audio, and the fades must be from and to black.

Is there a way I can either (1) batch apply the fades or (2) apply the fades to the first clip and then copy the fades to the rest of the clips?

Thanks

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jetdv wrote on 9/22/2008, 12:46 PM

Scripts can easily do that. With Excalibur and Ultimate S, it's a trivial task. There are also free fading scripts available, though. Here's one that will fade all selected events in and out 1 second. All you need to do is change the fade in to 2 seconds and the fade out to 4 seconds and it should do what you want.

nolonemo wrote on 9/22/2008, 12:48 PM

Thank you! That level of script editing I should be able to handle :-)

EDIT. Actually, I can't really figure this out, the script doesn't seem to be formatted...

EDIT. I found the script on the jetdv.com website - so I'm good, I think. Thanks again!

TeetimeNC wrote on 9/22/2008, 12:55 PM

Although I haven't used it, it looks like Video Track Automation can be used with Fade-to-Color Envelopes to (hopefully) speed the creation of fades for a large number events. Take a look at "Fade-to-Color Envelopes" in the help file. Let us know if this works.

Jerry