How do you fade out audio or the end of a song

coateslr wrote on 8/3/2004, 1:25 PM
How do you fade out or in a song or an audio part of your movie. My video ends before the end of the music and I would like the music to fade out when the movie ends.

Also is there a way to lower the audio in parts of the movies so that the talking isn't so loud without deleting it all together. I was using sound forge 7, but I don't know exactly the steps to get it right. Can anyone help me?

thanks for your help

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/3/2004, 2:33 PM
Easy to do.

Click the switch to the left of the audio track and it will open it, revealing a graph of the sound waves.

Enable audio envelopes in the drop-down menu at the top of your screen. You'll see a line running horizontally through the center of the audio graph.

By double-clicking on this line, you'll make points that you can adjust up or down to control the volume in certain places. By creating an end point that you drag down so that the line angles down, you produce a fade out.
Chienworks wrote on 8/3/2004, 2:34 PM
If you need to shorten the song simply drag the right edge of the event to the left. If you want to fade it, move the cursor to the upper right corner of the event and it will change to a quarter-circle icon. Drag the upper right corner to the left and you will create a fade out. You can also chop & fade the beginning of the song by doing similar mouse movements at the left edge.

To create volume changes within the audio clip, click Insert / Audio envelopes / Volume (or type V while the event is selected). A thin blue line will appear down the middle of the event. You can raise or lower this line to affect the volume. If you double-click on the line you can add as many points as necessary, and then drag individual points up and down. Generally if you want to drop the volume for a section you will need 4 points: first at the end of the normal volume, second dragged down to the reduced level, third still at this lower level, and the fourth back to normal volume. You can have as many of these volume changes as you wish.