Cross fade question

[audioadvantage]

Hi folks, Would anyone have a quick work around for doing a batch of X fades on a 100 or so clips?
In short I have some mono atmos tracks and want to put a 500ms to 1000ms cross fades between the clips that are back to back.
I've made some X fade preset & was hoping there was a function where I can highlight the clips that need the fades and bingo!

Cheers

JB

[spoons]

in the fade editor, do the xfade you want ..
go to xfade preset and save in default or add a new one.
highlight all of your atmos's
richt click "xfade" and load what you just saved ...

spoons

[Paulo M]

Hi all,

I did try to do that to fade in and outs but it does not work, is there any other way to apply a specific fade in or out to a lot of selected clips?

Thanks

[tim]

Open the fade editor, create a 500 ms xfade, then save it as the default. I think that if you have a bunch of clips butted up against each other, select them all, and then apply "Clips...xfade default" (Pyramix standard shortcut is Cntrl - F11), it will apply your default xfade to all the clips.

Tim Martyn

[audioadvantage]

I agree with Paulo, I create the 500ms x fade, save as default (or my own preset name) I then highlight the clips and select “load default x fade” and nothing. It works on 2 clips back to back but not bunch of clips…it’s it a fault with my system??

[Pierre-André Aebischer]

Hello,

Have you tried with the different sorts of "auto crossfades" available?

Described here:

http://forum.merging.com/viewtopic.php?t=2144


Kind regards

[Paulo M]

Hi,

I was not refering to Xfades(cross fades) but to normal fade ins and outs. For example, you have some clips on the timeline and want to apply the same fade in to all of them. If you save a fade in as a user fade in and then select all clips/load fade in, it does not work. The same applies to fade outs. In my opinion if it works on crossfades it should work on fade ins and outs too. Cheers,

Paulo

[Steve]

Hi,

I was not refering to Xfades(cross fades) but to normal fade ins and outs. For example, you have some clips on the timeline and want to apply the same fade in to all of them. If you save a fade in as a user fade in and then select all clips/load fade in, it does not work. The same applies to fade outs. In my opinion if it works on crossfades it should work on fade ins and outs too. Cheers,

Paulo

Hi Paulo,
On my system I've mapped 'control-F10' to 'apply default in and out fades to selection'. Maybe it's a stock command, I don't know and I'm not in front of my Pmix now, but it works great for me. This applies specifically to the fade in and fade out of each clip, not crossfades from one clip to another.

Good luck,
Steve

[Paulo M]

Hi Steve, thanks for the suggestion. In fact I was not doing my fade saves in the right way, due to a terminology misundertanding of mine. Now the thing is working fine, I can do fade ins and outs to a number of selected clips at the same time(apart from the xfades of course). Regards,

Paulo

[spoons]

Are you all sure that it doesn't work on xfades too ? It is on my system.

[Paulo M]

Yes, it works on xfades too, no problem

Paulo

[audioadvantage]

Thank you all for the advice but I'm still having no luck cross fading a bunch of 50+ clips…seems I have 2 problem that may be related.
1) I've followed all the advice and I can still only ever get 2 clips to x-fade at a time. I've tried both highlighting the clips (shading them by dragging the mouse pointer across all clips ) and selecting all clips (click on a clip and hold down "shift" to selected the other clips) The best I get is 1 x-fade, usually between the last 2 clips in the timeline. The fade it does give me is the curve/time etc I saved as a preset.
After creating the new present x-fade & making a short cut key (F), I've tried ALL the x-fade options…the fade editor from the tool bar menu, the short cut in the fade editor window & selecting “load preset” from the pull down menu…...and all with the same result. Is it something to do with the "safe" modes?? I have tried them both checked and unchecked, but no luck.
2) Pierre, the Auto Cross fade does “sometimes” work. I have selected & entered my cross fade times in “All settings” but it only works with the current project….i.e. if I close the project and open a new one, it doesn’t make the fades…yes I have saved the settings and when I open the new project I can see the fade times in the settings are as I’ve saved them but it doesn’t put the fades on the clips.
Any tips and Merry Christmas!!
JB

[Silas]

This may be a silly question but are you absolutely sure all the clips are abutted? There might be a few samples gap between them that is only visible when you zoom all the way in on a join.

Otherwise I have no idea...

-Silas

[audioadvantage]

Yep absolutely sure Silas. I’ve even made sure they are butted together by placing a bunch of clips over each other, about a second each way, just to confirm my 500ms fades worked. At first I thought it may have been an OMF thing where the “handles” were too short, but that’s not the case. All the clips have 2 sec handles on them. Very strange as I know I’ve cross faded multiple clips in V4.

[Steve]

Are you all sure that it doesn't work on xfades too ? It is on my system.

Well this is what I was referring to.....on my system Ctrl-F10 is 'apply default in and out fades', and Ctrl-F11 is 'apply default xfade'. There's an important difference.....if I apply 'default in and out fade' to an edit I get a fade out and then a fade up, rather than an xfade. I don't think this helps JB much but I've been off the forum for a bit and am just getting caught up....

Steve