Crossfades

Keypusher wrote on 7/25/2013, 1:28 PM
I have the automatic crossfades turned on, but when I drag one clip over the other it does not give me the crossfade I want. I have to go into fade properties and change every crossfade. I have looked through the manual and help screens but cannot find the setting to change the automatic crossfades. Does anybody know how to do this? It would take me hours changing every crossfade on a long project.

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Jack S wrote on 7/25/2013, 4:57 PM
The standard crossfade can't (AFAIK) be changed by default. You can, after all your clips are put on the timeline with the standard crossfade, select all clips and change the transition en bloc to the one you require.

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Keypusher wrote on 7/26/2013, 12:29 PM
Many thanks for the reply. I had been changing the crossfades individually as I could not get a block change to work. I was hoping that there was an easier way.

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ritsmer wrote on 7/28/2013, 4:52 AM
You can set your preferred default crossfade under Preferences and External Control & Automation.
vkmast wrote on 7/28/2013, 5:12 AM
ritsmer,
I must be having one of my senior moment mornings, but I could find only the overlap options. Could not even find External Control & Automation in my MS version(s), only in VPro.
ritsmer wrote on 7/28/2013, 8:46 AM
Sorry, then - my fault - mostly Movie Studio has got the same/similar possibilities as Pro - but obviously not here.

Just checked with my old VMSPlat 9.0 and there it seems that the default crossfade-settings can be changed under Preferences + Editing.

Maybe there is a similar possibility in your current version.
vkmast wrote on 7/28/2013, 12:28 PM
Probably not what the OP was after, but that's as may be because the options to change are there as advised in a post above.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50473571/msp12.png
ritsmer wrote on 7/28/2013, 1:31 PM
The Cut-to-overlap conversion setting manages how Vegas can semi-automatically convert an A-cut (no transition) to the chosen overlap-transition and with the chosen time.

The settings mentioned by me manages which cross-fade is inserted when 2 video/audio events are manually overlapped on the timeline.

@vkmast: if you want to show an image directly in this forum then change the https from dropbox to http in your img= statement.
vkmast wrote on 7/28/2013, 1:41 PM
>>>The settings mentioned by me manages which cross-fade is inserted when 2 video/audio events are manually overlapped on the timeline.
ritsmer,
do you have a screen shot of these settings in Preferences for me? I still can't find them.
ritsmer wrote on 7/28/2013, 2:47 PM


being MovieStudio-version dependant, of course - and as I wrote above:

"Just checked with my old VMSPlat 9.0 and there it seems that the default crossfade-settings can be changed under Preferences + Editing.

Maybe there is a similar possibility in your current version."
vkmast wrote on 7/28/2013, 3:23 PM
ritsmer,
thanks for the VMS 9 Prefs screen shot. It seems the Editing tab changed somewhat by v10. Not that it matters though, since I couldn't figure out how to set in that old tab which crossfade is inserted anyway :) Best I go by e.g. Jack S's suggestion.
Thanks again.
TOG62 wrote on 7/28/2013, 11:26 PM
I think that confusion has arisen because you want to change the default transition, and others have assumed you wanted to change the default duration of crossfades.