This isn’t at all what I’m talking about. I’m talking about an audio crossfade. There’s a difference between the dissolve and crossfade. You can set default lengths for both dissolve and crossfade in preferences (and you can use a dissolve on audio as well as the crossfade, but I’m talking about crossfade only here).

The indicator for crossfade…

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Hi – I just started using FCPX after many years of using other NLEs.

A couple issues:

If I add a crossfade (say maybe 5 frames), then try to lengthen the crossfade to 2 seconds for instance, dragging the two little icons to the left and right – the crossfade switches to a fade out on the one clip and fade in on the other.

Also –

Sometimes…

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Thanks!

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Thanks!

Cool – thanks for the insight.

Also – I know there’s a way to have two windows – to bring up a Source window, and that you can use Position to turn off the magneticness of the timeline.

My question is more about tracks (as in V1 V2 A1 A2, etc), and just a general mode where it’s more like traditional NLEs. The more I can use this just like Premiere would be the best…

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Hi – just to clarify – I understand FCPX works differently than FCP 7, Premiere, etc., and I understand the magnetic time line. My question is, is there an editing mode in FCPX that makes it more like using those traditional NLEs.

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This has probably been asked before but –

I might have a job where they want to use FCPX. I’ve been using Premiere, FCP 7 and Media Composer for years, and I’d like to use FCPX as much like that software as possible.

Is there an edit mode where it’s possible to edit to audio and video tracks, as in select the track, do a mark in / mark out and…

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