> Are there scripts around for doing this?

Right, I’ve always hated the fact that I had to create a selection and then move it over my clip to have it snap to a perfect crossfade. I don’t know why I didn’t think of writing a script before but since you mentioned it. Here it is: If you assign it to ctrl+1 – 0 or as a button on the toolbar, then all you do is highlight the events (both video and audio) that you want to overlap with a crossfade and invoke the script. I’ll work on one that pops up a dialog to prompt for an amount in a little bit. But this one should get you started. I set it for a half second because Vegas does snap to one second pretty well already. Feel free to change the duration if you’d like. Be sure to select contiguous events because it will make then contiguous anyway and this might not be what you wanted.

/** 

 * Program:     CreateCrossfade.js

 * Description: This script will create a half second crossfade between the selected events

 *              Note: You should only select contiguous events. If you don't the events

 *              will be moved to be contiguous and this may not be what you want.

 *              Also don't forget to select both Video and Audio if you want them to

 *              crossfade together.

 *

 * Author: Johnny (Roy) Rofrano  john_rofrano at hotmail dot com

 * 

 * Date: April 1, 2004 (no foolin')

 *

 **/ 

import SonicFoundry.Vegas; 

import System.Windows.Forms;

// This sets the default crossfade to a half second

// You can change it to whatever you want it to be below

var defaultCrossfade : Timecode = new Timecode("00:00:00:15");

try

{

    // step through all tracks:

    for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) 

    {

        // set up a flag to treat the first event different

        var firstSelectedEvent : boolean = true;

        var previousEvent : TrackEvent;

        // step through all selected video events:

        for (var evnt in track.Events) 

        {

            if( !evnt.Selected) continue;

            if (firstSelectedEvent)

            {

                previousEvent = evnt;

                firstSelectedEvent = false;

            }

            else

            {

                var newStartTime : Timecode = previousEvent.Start 

                    + previousEvent.Length - defaultCrossfade;

                evnt.AdjustStartLength(newStartTime, evnt.Length, true);

                previousEvent = evnt;

            }

        }

        

    }

}

catch (errorMsg)

{

    MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

}

/** End of Program **/

~jr