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newbie question- automatic crossfades for multiple events- How?
Can I select multiple events, like 8 or 10 clips, and add them to the timeline with a crossfade of a predetermined length? If so how do I do this? Thanks in advance!
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19 Replies
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Yes. Just select them and drag them to the timeline. To control the exact length of the overlap, those settings are in Options – Preference – Editing tab. Make sure “Automatically overlap” box is checked and the overlap amount is set as you desire.
Edward Troxel
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Yes, in Prefs > Editing, turn on Automatically overlap multiple selected media. Right underneath that option is the Cut-To-Overlap setting which determines the duration of the overlap (crossfade).
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thanks, that’s easy enough. It looks like that also puts in an automatic audio cross fade as well, right?
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That’s correct (audio crossfade, that is).
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The best cut is a straight cut. Cross fades denote time lapse, usually. Cross fades are sloppy editing and serve no purpose.
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The best transistion is a crossfade. A crossfade most closely resembles what your brain does when switching attention from one object to another.(see persistence of vision — you can’t even “see” a straight cut!) While switching from one scene to another, time lapses, and so the denotation of time lapse is appropriate. Straight cuts are lazy editing and cause jarring, abrupt transistions. Straight cuts serve no purpose and are the most unimmaginative way to edit. 😉
But seriously, friend. How can you throw out blanket statements like that without a clue to what someone is editing? When it comes to artistic guidelines, there always comes a time when standard rules and conventions need to be bent broken and ignored. Have you written those Star Wars people about those iris wipes yet? Sheesh! That stuff went out with zoot suits.
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Yup, couldn’t have said it better myself. No, I don’t throw in crossfades for every scene change, but I do for a lot of them. And I often have several grouped events that I want to cross fade, and that’s why I wanted to be able to do it “quicker and easier”. There needs to be a reason for every transition. I rarely use anything other than a straight cut, cross fade, or fade to and from black (or white). But there is always a reason for any of them.
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[Raymond Motion Pictures] “Cross fades are sloppy editing and serve no purpose.”
Yesterday, I got chocolate all over my keyboard. Now THAT’S sloppy editing!
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Watch any well-edited movie and count the number of straight cuts to cross-fades. It will be about 100-1.
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[Art] “The best transistion is a crossfade. A crossfade most closely resembles what your brain does when switching attention from one object to another.(see persistence of vision — you can’t even “see” a straight cut!) While switching from one scene to another, time lapses, and so the denotation of time lapse is appropriate. Straight cuts are lazy editing and cause jarring, abrupt transistions. Straight cuts serve no purpose and are the most unimmaginative way to edit. ;)”
I don’t agree with that at all. There must a lot of lazy Hollywood editors – because I rarely see anything but start cuts in good movies.
The art is in where to cut. It’s the first thing I learned in school.
Pro editors rarely crossfade clips. For example, watch Million Dollar Baby – not a crossfade in it! A couple fade-to-black to denote time lapse, but no crossfades.
Was Clint being lazy?
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