butting 2 events with fades without losing my fades….

[Bill Hames]

In my experience, you’ll only lose your fades if you overlap the pictures. In your case you may need to drag one of the pictures down to create a new track. Pix will snap but fades should hold.
I just checked – fades are lost if snap is disabled. Enable Options – snap and you should be OK.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Bill. I’m afraid that’s what I’ll have to do. Seems silly that I can’t maintain the fade.

If anyone knows how to override this behaviour, we’re all ears 🙂
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Gilles

[Roger Bansemer]

I know exactly what’s happening and it was a mystery to me for a while as well.
When you slide a video event, it always snaps to a frame. However if you drag an audio event it can end up in the middle of a frame. What you are running into is that your audio which is connected to the event frame was moved somewhere between frames. When this happens your fade will disappear.
Look closely at your video, zoom in on it and see. The audio is probably not at a frame beginning or end but somewhere in between.

This can also mess up other things because all frames after that are probably don’t start at a frame but half way in between.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Bill Hames]

I edited my original post to suggest enabling snapping in Options menu. Should work.

[Mike Kujbida]

Hello Gilles. I hope you’re doing well these days.

To add to what Roger said, make sure Quantize to Frames is enabled and that the events start and stop on a frame boundary. To see if this is the case with your events, zoom in on the event, place the cursor at the beginning or end of the event and use the left or right arrow to go forward or back one frame. If it doesn’t end up where its supposed to (i.e. the cursor isn’t where it’s supposed to be), trim the event so that things are back to normal and your problem should be solved.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Mike!
Oddly enough, my quatize-to-frame was/is turned on.
thanks for the left/right arrow tip,
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Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, I always have it turned on too but every once in a while Vegas has a hissy fit and messes things up 🙁
Have a great Christmas holiday!!

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks!
you too Mike,
G

Gilles

[Brad Leigh]

I was just logging on to ask this exact same question.
I ALWAYS have quantize to frames on.
Are you saying that dragging an audio event can pull the associated video off the frame??
Thanks I’ll look at my edit closely
Brad

i7 2600 3.4 Ghz 8Gig Ram , Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 12

[Gilles Gagnon]

Roger… you got it! it worked! as you mentioned, I “re-aligned” the event and the fade sticks. THANKS!

Bill: thank you as well; I had turned snapping on/off and it wasn’t making a difference.

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Gilles