... and if you want a cross fade, it's even quicker - just overlap the two clips, whether they're video or audio.

If your audio is a continuous stream then you'll have to split it first with the S key at the point where you want silence. Then you can fade the edges where they meet.

>Hover your mouse pointer over the top right or left corner of an audio<
I already tried this but the fade seems to invert (Normal volume, drop to no volume then fade up toward the end of audio track.

>and if you want a cross fade, it's even quicker<
I tried that too but I don't like the results.

Thanks for the input.

Right click on the fade and choose "Fade type" and you'll see several fade options.

-Dan

Alan,
The answers you have got are more precise than your question. You should explain in more detail what you want to do.
Tor

Thanks Dan, I think you have just 'clicked my switch'

I now suspect, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the fade types include fade in and fade out. I have probably been selecting one of the Fade IN options to Fade OUT my audio.

If that is the case, and I can't prove it until I get home in about 5 hours, then you can all have a good laugh at my expense.

"Experience is something you only get just after you need it"

Al

Sorry Tor, you came in while I was typing my reply to Dan.

Yes the answers have been precise but I had already figured out how to "Hover your mouse pointer over the top right or left corner of an audio" andI "if you want a cross fade, it's even quicker" but unfortunately that didn't work for me.

But then Dan's suggestion made me realise where I might be going wrong.

As for explaining my question in more detail, I'm not sure how I could have been more specific. It was a very simple question I thought!

Al

The 'fade type' refers only to the shape of the fade curve - ie how slowly or quickly the fade happens. It does not dictate fading in or out - this is decided by where the fade is.

At the end of an event you will create a fade out by draging the top right corner to the left.

At the start of an event you will create a fade in by draggin the top left corner to the right.

In that case:
Does you audio event stop where you want the fade out to occur? In that case, use the advise your have got. Grab the "ear" and pull it in, you'll see the fade grow as you pull.
This fade you can change, but you can not make it a fade in at the end of an event.

However, if you want to fade in the middle of an event (like music, for instance): select the event and press v on your keyboard. You have now inserted an audio volume envelope. Doubleclick to add points and pull them to where you want them (up, down or sideways). Or rightclick and type an exact dB number. What could be easier?
Tor

Thanks for the clarification ibliss. Looks like I was on the wrong track (pun) after all.

Tor's 'v' suggestion looks like the winner and is what I suspected when I asked "am I forced to use an envelope of some kind".

Thanks to you all for the advice.

Al