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Can’t Place Audio Crossfade Between Two Clips
Hi,
I am trying to edit together some footage I shot recently. All the clips are from the same tape, with the same settings regarding bitrate, etc. However, when I try to add a crossfade between the clips, the program doesn’t allow me; it only places it either at the end of the first clip, or the beginning of the next one. This creates a fade out or fade in, as opposed to a smooth transition. The function works on other projects, just not on this one. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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6 Replies
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Hi,
Did you trim the clips in the source viewer prior to editing to the timeline, or did you simply edit the full clips back to back in sequence?
Cross fades like other transitions on the same track need additional media beyond what is exposed ion the timeline to have room to transition.
You could layer the audio sources on alternating tracks and then simply use the pen tool to create fades manually as an alternative to trimming the clips.
Does this help?
Alex
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Great post by Alex. Just to add, you may sometimes have a small gap between clips of 1 frame which you will not see unless you zoom in to the frame level. This will of course keep you from adding any transition between clips
Jeff Pulera
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I had tried everything and it was that tiny space of one frame preventing me from adding a crossfade. Hours of my life I won’t get back. Thank you Jeff Pulera!
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There is plenty of overlap on either side of the audio clip. There are no frames between the clips. Premiere absolutely refuses to let me put in a 1-frame audio transitions to eliminate the “pops” as I’ve done a thousand times before. Re-booting did no good whatsoever.
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I know it’s been a long time but I just run in exact same problem, and found out that footage I had to edit (not mine) has an interesting flaw. Any time camera was turned on sound recording would lag for a split second. I only found this out by switching to “Time Ruler Numbers” (CS6) in timeline because it is not visible under frames ruler as lag is not even a second. Never the less, it was enough to prevent sound crossfade audio filters to be placed. Again there were no gap between audio clips in timeline. So I unlinked all audio and video and edited sound by trimming silence in the front of every clip and slowing down all audio clips with “speed/duration” to about 99.9-99.5 % to fill the gaps resulted from trimming. After that crossfade filters worked without any problems. Slowing audio did not affect the resulting footage it looked and sounded perfectly natural.
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It’s been a REALLY long time, but I have seen this two-frames-of-audio-missing issue when importing multiple sequential video files from camcorders or GoPros into Premiere. The end of every individual file would have two or so frames of audio missing. My solution was to merge the individual files into a single video outside of premiere before importing. I’ve used several techniques – Handbrake, command line concatenation, etc. and they all seem to do the trick.
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