Having a problem with fades in VMS 6

Altair 4 wrote on 5/17/2009, 7:03 PM
Okay, so what is going here?

I've got two clips. The end of the first I have fading to black and dropping the audio to nothing. The begfinning of the second one fades in from black; ditto the audio.

If I abut both of these clips, the fades go completely away and revert back to their original levels. They don't return if I slide them apart. This didn't use to happen!

So what's going on? How do I make this revert to its nromal behavior? Thanks!

PS: I checked the manual and I can't find anything on this. I've searched here and couldn't find anything on topic, either.

Comments

richard-amirault wrote on 5/17/2009, 9:47 PM
I have no idea why this is happening .. but why is it a problem?

All you need to do is NOT but them up against each other and all is fine. You can expand the timeline considerably so that the interval between the clips is very small.
Altair 4 wrote on 5/18/2009, 5:21 AM
Well, this is only part of the problem, but was easiest to describe. The related issue is that it is doing the same thing when I have a cross fade, but want to have a longer fade on the earlier clip. This is really puzzling me.
ritsmer wrote on 5/19/2009, 12:01 AM
If you only move the medias to touch each other but not overlap then the fade out and fade in are kept.
If you overlap them with as much as 1 frame Vegas will either make automatic crossfades (if this is on) or use as much of your own fade out/in as the overlap-time gives space for.
mickbadal wrote on 5/19/2009, 5:05 AM
Altair, my guess is that you're zoomed out quite a bit, and so when you move the one clip close to the other, it snaps over and ends up overlapping the other clip a slight bit, though you might not be able to see that they're actually overlapping. I've had that happen to me. Try zooming in and then nudge the clip over. You'll be able to better control them and avoid an overlap.