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Fade-ins are much too slow, yet I can’t fix this
I may need someone sitting right next to me in order to explain the problem I’m having, but I’ll see if I can explain it. Simple fade-ins are a problem. I know I take the quarter-pie symbol and drag it, revealing a diagonal line, and the more I drag the longer the fade process. So far, so good.
Here’s the problem: the diagonal line is very flexible, flexible, flexible — EXCEPT at the very beginning. In other words, I can make the fade take 14 seconds, or 18, or 20, or 22, or 24, etc., but I can’t make it less than 14. It just jumps from 0 to 14 (or whatever too-large number). Same thing if I want an extremely gentle overlap between my video and the text I want to fade in. I can drag the two things apart all I want, and I can overlap them all I want, EXCEPT at the critical point of about two to three seconds left in the video. THAT’S where I want the one dissolving into the other. But I can’t have that. It’s flexible up until around 8 seconds, then it’s either 8 seconds of overlap or zero. So I can’t get the fade (or, if I want, the overlap) at the right point. It’s either too soon or too late, and the fade is always way too slow.
Any idea what I’m talking about? If so, how can I fix this problem so I can have the nice, quick fades I see all over YouTube?
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3 Replies
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Zoom in on the timeline so that you have less to work with.
For overlaps, place the beginning of clip 2 against then end of clip 1 and then use the 1 and 3 keys on the numeric keypad to slip it one frame at a time.
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That solved it. Thank you very much. Sorry for such a simple question. Now if only I could isolate one segment of audio. Whenever I click, it highlights the entire audio. Double clicking isn’t any help. There’s a portion of my audio that gets very loud and I want to bring down the volume on just that part, but have no idea how to isolate it. Do I really have to split it, do my edit, and then reattach?
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Click on the audio clip and press ‘V’ (shortcut for Volume Evenlope).
This will insert a thin blue line across the entire audio track but we’re only going to use a small section of it.
Zoom in so that you can see the desired section.
Making the track larger also helps.
Double-click the blue line twice at the beginning to add two points.
Repeat this process at the end.
Place your cursor between points 2 and 3 and drag down to the desired level.
Adjust the position of any point at any time as desired.
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