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  • audio cross dissolves not working in Davinci?

    Posted by Tim Neighbors on October 23, 2024 at 12:24 am

    I had this problem before in Ver.18 and now I’m working with Version 19.0.3 Build 5 and this continues to be an issue for me. When working with audio-only files on the timeline, my cross dissolves from one audio clip to another do not work. I right click on a cut between the two files, select the dissolve duration, the cross-dissolve appears, but when I play it back it still sounds like a cut, or the incoming audio cuts on and then the outgoing sound jumps to half volume at the center of the dissolve and then fades out from there. Hard to believe this behavior/bug would’ve been overlooked by BlackMagic for the last couple years, so I guess it must be just me?

    Tim Neighbors replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Dean Baker

    October 23, 2024 at 12:34 am

    I’m not sure why the audio fade transitions are not working, to overcome this, you can put the audio tracks on 2 different tracks and use the fade sliders (fade out the top track and fade in the bottom). Or, if you need the audio on the one track, go to the Timeline dropdown menu and turn on Layered Audio Editing. Add a fade-out on the first audio track and a fade-in on the second audio track and overlap them – this will give you a cross-fade.

  • Tim Neighbors

    October 23, 2024 at 12:51 am

    yeah, I had been doing separate fade out/in on separate tracks as a workaround. I think the issue has to do with ‘Layered Audio Editing’. While I have that enabled, if I first overlap two audio files, then apply a dissolve at the cut point between them, it only adds the second half of the dissolve. The first half is hidden and needs to be dragged out. See screen captures. Is this not happening to others?

  • Dean Baker

    October 23, 2024 at 2:48 am

    try adding the fade out/in first before overlapping … this seems to work for me.

  • Tim Neighbors

    October 23, 2024 at 11:17 pm

    So are you able to reproduce the issue on your end?

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