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Chapter 31: Fades and Crossfades 681
Using automatic fade-ins/outs saves you the trou-
ble of editing to zero-crossings or creating numer-
ous rendered fades in order to eliminate clicks or
pops in playback. However, those clicks or pops
still exist in the underlying sound file. Conse-
quently, those anomalies still appear if the Dupli-
cate AudioSuite plug-in or the
Export Clips As
Files
command (from the Clips List) are used to
duplicate multiple clips as a continuous file. To
render these real-time auto fades to disk, choose
File > Bounce to > Disk.
To set the length of automatic fade-ins/outs:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click the
Operation tab.
2 Type a value between 0 and 10 ms for the Clip
Auto Fade In/Out Length
. A value of zero (the
default) means that no auto-fading will occur.
3 Click OK. The AutoFade value is saved with the
session, and is automatically applied to all free-
standing clip boundaries until you change it.
Creating Fades and
Crossfades in Batches
Using Batch Fades, you can create many fades at
once. Select across several clips and use the
Create
Fades
command to create crossfades for each clip
transition. If your selection includes clips that al-
ready have crossfades, you can modify them.
To apply crossfades between multiple clips:
1 With the Selector tool, click in the first clip in
which you want to create a crossfade. Make
sure that the selection includes the entire clip.
2 Drag to extend the selection to include the last
clip you want to crossfade. Make sure that the
selection includes the entire clip.
3 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Edit > Fades > Create.
• Press Command+F (Mac) or Control+F (Win-
dows).
4 In the Batch Fades dialog, select whether you
want to
Create New Fades, Adjust Existing
Shape & Slope, Adjust Existing Length
, or a
combination of these options for fade ins, cross-
fades and fade outs.
If you choose to create new fades and new fade-ins
and outs, new crossfades are created at each clip
boundary that is bordered by another selected clip,
a fade-in is created at the start of the first clip, and
a fade-out is created at the end of the last clip.
Selected clips for Batch Fades
Batch Fades dialog