Fading Audio???

badgerballs wrote on 6/11/2005, 9:24 AM
At the moment I can only see how you can fade an audio event in or out from or too zero.
I cannot see how you can fade out to say fifty per cent.
What I wish to do is fade the music track say fifty percent in a section of an audio event (so it is still playing in the background) and add a specil affect sound.
At the moment I am fading out where I want the special event to come in and crossfading the SFX. Then splitting the audio music track and reducing it to fifty percent, split again at the end of the sfx and increasing the music.
This seems an awfully tacky way of doing it.
Am I missing the plot here?

regards

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Chienworks wrote on 6/11/2005, 9:49 AM
Try a volume envelope. It should be under the insert menu, or simply select the audio track and press V. You'll get a thin blue line running down the center of the track. Double-click on the line wherever you want the volume to start changing and again where you want it to be steady again. You'll see "nodes" appear on the line. You can move the nodes up and down (and left and right too!) to adjust the volume along the way. This also lets you increase the volume up to 6dB for enhancing softer parts.
badgerballs wrote on 6/11/2005, 10:44 AM
wow thanks, sussed it I was doing the thingy on a previous post by yourself called "Increasin/Decreasing Track opacity" and managed to do it that way.
Mind you using this is the same as I am used to in Pizzznnacle.
Much easier.
Is the previous thingy the same as using this V command or is it for a different problem?

regards
Chienworks wrote on 6/11/2005, 5:13 PM
The previous thingie was for video tracks because Vegas Movie Studio doesn't have an "opacity" envelope. The full version does though.
badgerballs wrote on 6/12/2005, 4:34 AM
Sorry to be a pain but could you give me a brief explanation of a video opacity envelope and it's uses? As I think I am getting it confused with a transition.

regards
Chienworks wrote on 6/12/2005, 7:38 AM
Well, you don't have a video opacity envelop so it's a bit moot, but here goes ... it does the same thing for video that a volume envelope does for audio; it lets you fade it in and out. What this would be useful for is if you had videos on two tracks. You could put an opacity envelope (if you had one) on the upper track. Whenever you drop the opacity below 100% the video on the lower track would show through. The lower the opacity, the more transparent the upper track becomes and the more of the lower track you will see.
badgerballs wrote on 6/12/2005, 12:08 PM
Yep I see.
In fact I am doing a similar process with pip. I am using a different image above to appear below in a cookie cutter thingie. If you get my drift<G>.

thanks for the explanation
regards
ericlast wrote on 6/14/2005, 7:46 PM
OK, so I'm confused...
I realize that we don't have a video opacity envelope in VMS, but if you put your mouse on the top of a video clip, then drag down, can't you change the opacity that way?
And if that's true, how does that differ from using a video envelope in the big version of Vegas???
ADinelt wrote on 6/15/2005, 8:55 AM
I believe an envelope track (audio or video) allows you to put key points along the envelope and manipulate those points individually. Where just dragging the top of an audio or video clip down affects the whole clip and can not be varied throught the clip (without splitting the clip into many pieces).

Al