Audio Only cross fade in X

[Brett Sherman]

[Herb Sevush] “in which case I give you the case of a 1 second dissolve between 2 scenes where you can hear the director giving the action cue just before the talent speaks in the second clip – do you really want the audio effect to match the video effect right there?”

Wouldn’t this be an example where the FCP X method of Fade Handles is actually superior? If you’re B shot has the director you fade that half of the edit in quicker and later and do a slower fade on the A shot to avoid a rough audio transition.

For me this example highlights why just throwing a audio fade between two clips is a little imprecise no matter if it’s with or separate from the video fade. And with Premiere if you want to do what I outlined above you’d have to move your B shot audio into a different track than the A-shot.

[Herb Sevush]

[Robin S. Kurz] ” The trial version is free and there are endless resources on the subject to be had on the interwebs. Not something I need or care to do, thank you. Aside from that being entire OT as far as this thread is concerned, as I said.”

Robin I invite you to join in a specific thread I started about multicam and FCPX. In this thread, this subject will not be OT.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/76770

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush]

[Brett Sherman] “But to the original point I’d say Fade Handles are the tool designed for the job. Superior in precision to transition fades, but inferior in speed. Depends on which you care about more. But I don’t see how this particular issue would hardly enter the equation about whether you go with X or Premiere.”

In my shows there are, I’m guessing, about 200-300 audio edits in the dialogue track. When I’m getting close to completion I select all and place a 3 frame dissolve on each. This takes less time to do then to describe. As I go thru and polish the show I make adjustments on about 10-20% of those dissolves. During that adjustment period fade handles would indeed be faster — better doesn’t come in to it since, as you elsewhere stated, I can get the same results by A/B’ing the audio clips and handling them that way. I am willing to bet that the time I loose on the 20% I more than make up with the time I save on the 80%. You are correct that this is not a make or break feature in terms of NLE selection, but not to acknowledge this inefficiency when it comes to a workflow like mine would be silly.

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