Editing problems

JohnGG wrote on 12/10/2002, 7:16 PM
I am trying to edit an interview with Vegas LE.

Every time I make a cut, Vegas inserts a crossfade, which I have to manually try and remove because it makes a hiccup on the audio. Sometimes I can remove them, sometimes they refuse to go. I have the Auto fade button deactivated.

The manual talks about making fades but not about making clean cuts.

Sometimes - not always - when I make a cut, or a split, there appears to be another track of audio underneath the main track which will slide backwards or forwards and confuses things. Sometimes this hidden track duplicates the last word before the cut. Sometimes, after I have made a cut and I expand the timeline I find there is a time space inserted between the two ends of the cut.

What should I be doing to make simple, non audible cuts?

I cannot find anything in the manual on this.

Comments

anndewig wrote on 12/10/2002, 7:21 PM
If you go into OPTIONS / PREFERENCES - then click EDITING... UN-check the option "Fade edit edges of audio events". This should do the trick.

And it sounds like you're accidentally making "Copies" of the original source material. It happens to me all the time because I'm working too fast, and using keyboard commands too quickly.

Good luck
MixNut wrote on 12/14/2002, 4:35 AM
I'm not sure I get it...Why would you want/need to make cuts into a contiguous piece of audio if you're not going to remove/relocate/gap material and make an "edit" at which point a crossfade/fade-out/fade-in is desired? NO crossfade at a cut causes non-zero crosspoint pops/clicks as well...You at least want a 1 frame fade to ensure a ramp to zero amplitude.

Otherwise, you're just making "marks"...right? If that's the case, just hit "m" as you go and drop markers.

Help me understand here...

Thanks