Audio Only cross fade in X

[Charlie Austin]

[tony west] “There has been a lot of talk about not being able to do it below”

I think what people have been talking about is the inability to add, say a 1-3 frame fade in or out to individual clips, not crossfades. I think Herb and others mentioned doing this on every audio cut when chopping up dialog. The only way to do this is with fade handles manually. However…

The “workaround” is to take a clip, set the fades as usual with the fade handles, copy it, and paste the audio volume attributes to all the clips to which you want to apply fades. Just do it before you make any volume changes as it’ll copy/paste the level as well as the fades. Pretty easy actually, you can put your custom fades on every audio cut in your timeline with a couple keystrokes… 🙂 I keep a couple “fade clips” with in my timeline for this if it’s something that requires lots of little identical audio fades.

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[Tony West]

Ok, but other people have been talking about this exactly.

Even when spencer put out his list of 10 things he wanted. Even HE wanted it.

There have been enough people talking about it for them to put this clip up.

[Charlie Austin]

[tony west] “…There have been enough people talking about it for them to put this clip up.”

Oh fore sure, it’s a great tip. Just trying to head off the “not what I was talking about” posts. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[James Ewart]

Alex 4D released this plugin for FCPX about two years ago and it works pretty well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PepLyRKogmE

Download from here. It’s free https://blog.alex4d.com/2011/07/11/fcpx-transition-sound-only/

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[Kevin Rag]

Wow! That’s a really useful plugin, didn’t know about it. Thanks for that James.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Daniel Frome]

So what if we don’t own motion? Can’t do this trick?

Thank you for thinking about us though 🙂

[Herb Sevush]

[Charlie Austin] “say a 1-3 frame fade in or out to individual clips, not crossfades. I think Herb and others mentioned doing this on every audio cut when chopping up dialog.”

No, actually it’s 3 frame crossfades between audio cuts. Fades to silence need to be used sparingly, since the fade out of the background room tone gets noticeable in many cases.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush]

Tony –

If anything were to convince me that FCPX is not for me, that little video would do it, even though it shows a clever way to accomplish what I was talking about. First they had to use something called a gap cut so that the music wouldn’t move all over the place when they were cutting the video – oh yeah, that sounds like something I need to learn. Next they come up with a solution that puts video dissolve markers on every video cut even though they are all straight cuts in order to put crossfades on the audio – all this after you have to create the effect yourself in Motion. I realize that this works, but it is the very definition of a “workaround.” I’m glad this all works for you, but this is definitely not for me.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[John Rofrano]

[Daniel Frome] “So what if we don’t own motion? Can’t do this trick?”

Yes you can. You don’t need Motion to use Motion Templates in FCP X. It’s part of the built-in capabilities of FCP X.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Bret Williams]

Never heard any discussion or complaints about adding 1-3 frames to clips. But a nifty tip nonetheless. The big complaint has definitely been not being able to add an audio only cross fade. However I was quite surprised that the guys didn’t know this tip. Some version of this tip has been around for years.