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Tim L wrote on 9/30/2006, 4:12 PM
Don't use any transition at all -- just overlap the two events. If you overlap them for 1 second on the timeline, you will get a 1-second crossfade between the two events. If you already have a transition there, you can right-click on the transition, select "Transition", then select "Convert to Crossfade". The crossfade is the normal transition, and has no icon on the overlapped events.

Tim L
gmes29 wrote on 9/30/2006, 4:18 PM
perfect.. thanx..
gmes29 wrote on 10/1/2006, 8:08 AM
one more thing regarding this..
i can get the crossfades on the video just fine but what about the audio?? isn't the audio automatically cross-faded as well?? right now the only fades i have on the audio of the 2 clips i'm transitioning were put there automatically when i split those clips initially. i simply adjusted them. but shouldn't they have been put there when i added the video cross-fade??
Chienworks wrote on 10/1/2006, 12:41 PM
Normally the audio crossfade should happen along with the video crossfade. I suspect, that maybe in all your fuzting around trying things that you may have messed it up somehow. Try this ... place an audio/video clip on the timeline, split it somewhere, drag the section after the split to the left to overlap the section on the right. You'll see the audio and video move together and create crossfades on both tracks. You may have somehow disconnected the audio from the video so that they don't move together anymore.
gmes29 wrote on 10/1/2006, 6:43 PM
so what's supposed to happen on a regular transition?? if inserted correctly, the 2 video clips will overlap with the transition acting as the 'glue' but nothing happens with the audio tracks. the audio clips for each video clip still abut right up next to each other which seems to be throwing off the timing of my audio fades. i have a fade out at the end of the first clip and a fade in at the beginning of the second but they are not in sync with the beginning/end of the transition. plus there doesn't seem to be a way to create an audio cross fade in the same place as the transition. any ideas??
MSmart wrote on 10/1/2006, 7:27 PM
Your video and audio tracks have somehow become "ungrouped." To group them together again, click on the video track then shift-click on the audio track then Edit > Group > Create New.
autopilot wrote on 10/1/2006, 8:13 PM
If it's Pink, it's out of Sync. To get the A & V back in sync, right click the video, then Sychronize, then By Moving.
gmes29 wrote on 10/2/2006, 10:08 AM
thanx all..
my project as is is still acceptable because the audio throughout the rest of the video (non-transition segments) is actually in sync. the fades being off are not a major disaster but what i'm gonna do is create a brand new project just for the purpose if trying to figure this out..
gmes29 wrote on 10/2/2006, 6:39 PM
ok this is what's going on..
if i first create a cross-fade by dragging one clip to overlap the other, i get the corresponding cf on the audio track at the same time. it's just a simple matter of changing the cf to a transition. however, what i've been doing is dragging a transition from the transition tab right to the video track. doing it this way does nothing with the audio track. is there something i'm missing here as far as dragging the trans is concerned??
everything else seems to be in sync though because there are no pink backgrounds and all the non-transition audio is right on.
Chienworks wrote on 10/2/2006, 7:09 PM
There probably isn't ever any reason to drag the transition first. Always do the crossfade first, then choose a transition to put on it.