I would like this to happen while adjusting the cross-fade between two clips also.

This has long been available in Vegas Pro by making sure that the 'Automatic Crossfades' button is activated in the timeline toolbar. The default crossfade is 1 second but that can be varied by the 'Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds)' field in the Editing tab in Options/Preferences.

The cross-fade snaps to the desired crossfade length as long as the video event is moved over the other video event at a reasonable speed - i.e. not ramming it across (depending on the zoom level being used on the timeline).

I got the cross-fade but what about adjusting the fade in/out? Can that be snapped in to 1 sec?

 

I got the cross-fade but what about adjusting the fade in/out? Can that be snapped in to 1 sec?

Alternative way adding a fixed fade in/out (1 sec) is dragging the transition "Dissolve - default" to start or end of an event on the timeline.

Not straight, but you can try using empty event 1sec duration as a guide :

@debojitacharjee, we really need to make this easier for you, but for now, the way I do it is:

1. Click to place the cursor at the beginning of the event
2. Type Ctrl+G (this is the shortcut to activate the Cursor Start position field in the lower-right-hand corner of the application window and you can think of it as a "go to"
3. Type +1.0 and press Enter

Typing a plus sign (+) followed by a number into that field tells VEGAS you want the cursor position to be its current value plus the value you enter (in your case, typing +1.0 means add one second, zero frames to the current value) and when you press Enter, the cursor moves accordingly. Once it has been moved, you can easily snap your fade edge to the cursor. The same technique works for fade outs in which case, place the cursor at the end of the event and type -1.0 into the Cursor Start field.

It's a workaround, yes, but I hope you find it helpful.

@debojitacharjee You can also copy an event that has the one second fade and then selectively paste the fade to selected events. You can selectively paste the length and/or type of fade(transition). To start, just right click on an event and select Copy, then select other events and right click to bring up the menu, and select Selectively Paste Event Attributes. Mark the types of attributes you want to paste, in your case it would be transition length and transition type.

If you have a device such as the Shuttle Contour Pro, you could make a macro that does the ctrl-g function +1 second or minus. Then only one button for that. You still have to drag the fade manually because there is no shortcut for that.

@debojitacharjee, we really need to make this easier for you, but for now, the way I do it is:

1. Click to place the cursor at the beginning of the event
2. Type Ctrl+G (this is the shortcut to activate the Cursor Start position field in the lower-right-hand corner of the application window and you can think of it as a "go to"
3. Type +1.0 and press Enter

Typing a plus sign (+) followed by a number into that field tells VEGAS you want the cursor position to be its current value plus the value you enter (in your case, typing +1.0 means add one second, zero frames to the current value) and when you press Enter, the cursor moves accordingly. Once it has been moved, you can easily snap your fade edge to the cursor. The same technique works for fade outs in which case, place the cursor at the end of the event and type -1.0 into the Cursor Start field.

It's a workaround, yes, but I hope you find it helpful.

I know this method but I would prefer the snap-in feature because that's easy and quick.

If you have a device such as the Shuttle Contour Pro, you could make a macro that does the ctrl-g function +1 second or minus. Then only one button for that. You still have to drag the fade manually because there is no shortcut for that.

So the snap-in while dragging the fade is NOT possible?

The Fade will snap to the cursor.

You can use a script... FadeInOutOneSecond.cs
 

/**
 * This script will Fade the selected events in and out fades to 1 second.
 *
 * Written By: Edward Troxel
 * Modified: 04-21-2003
 * Converted to C#: 05/19/2021
 **/

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

public class EntryPoint
{
  Vegas myVegas;

  public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
  {
    myVegas = vegas;

    //Go through the list of Tracks
    foreach (Track track in myVegas.Project.Tracks)
    {
      //Go through the list of Events
      foreach (TrackEvent evnt in track.Events)
      {
        if (evnt.Selected)
        {
          evnt.FadeIn.Length = new Timecode("00:00:01:00");
          evnt.FadeOut.Length = new Timecode("00:00:01:00");
        }
      }
    }
  }
}