I just create one fade, double click to create a region and then snap the other fades to that - works pretty well. Would be nice to select all the media on the layers and draw a fade on all of them at once though.

cheno

Cheno, nice workflow, I'll use that. And yes, all fades at once. Like that!

Grazie

This came about when I was working a 24 track 24 event that I wanted to conclude in lapsed/staggered fades. Having fades that would happened and timed in sequence would have made the creative process not so awkward. Making adjusts throughout this piece using something that Cheno suggested would have been a cool thing to have done. And I will use this, if I remember too! And that was why I thought of the idea of snapped fades. Anal? Not on this occasion. But who am I to say. As it happens the fades WERE out of synch and nasty. I guess sometimes one needs to be there to experience the situation and not "assume".

Anal? Nope.

Sometimes, often I want something to flow with ease and grace.

Grazie

Never worked this method before will try it thanks very usable info

Rory

Interesting comments. Reason I asked was I do make my fades all exactly the same and precisely timed. Someone saw me doing this and nearly fell on the floor laughing. I was the one being accussed of being anal for worrying about it.

That aside if you do want one fade to start at the end of another i.e. in sequence, Vegas already gives us a cue to assist with this. If you want them all to start at the exact same time then just park the cursor at the start of one and drag the others one at a time, again you'll get a cue to tell you they're in line.

If however you want everything to fade correctly at once then you might have a problem. Even if all your fades are exactly the same the result might not be what you might expect. Each track fades into the one below effectively which isn't the same visually as them all fading together. For that you need to nest and apply the fade in the parent project.

Bob.

Bob.

Actually, this is the reason that I separated Fade-In from Fade-Out on the Editing tab of Ultimate S. You can just select all of the events on however many tracks and apply Fade-Out and you're done. All of the events will have the same fade-out, using the same curve and same transition fx is you want. One click if you are using Vegas Pro 8.0 and have Ultimate S Pro docked in a window (where it's always available for quick edits like this). I'd imagine that Excalibur has the same function. Now that Ultimate S and Excalibur are command extensions and stay open all of the time, it makes them a lot more useful for quick little edits like this.

I agree that snap to fade would be nice using the blue timeline indicator.

~jr

Yeah, I use the Cursor to create snaps for fades or ends of scenes.

Dave T2

I have plenty tools - but no eyes to see 'em! Maybe the Toolbox is just too deep now for my arms?

Edward and JR, your prowess proceeds yah!

Grazie

I'm for it. I'm anal and proud and was thinking just the other day that it would be nice if fades would snap to each other.