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Tutorial 5—Editing Audio

Tutorials

A. Drag to here

The beginning of the clip is now hidden. The data is not lost, as you will

see if you drag the beginning to where it was originally. Slip-edited data

is still in the project, but it is not seen or heard.

Next Step: Automatic Crossfades.

Automatic Crossfades

Let’s combine these two tracks and create a crossfade.

1. Enable automatic crossfades by clicking (depressing) the Enable/

Disable Automatic Crossfades combo button located next to the

Snap to Grid button on the Track view toolbar.

2. Click the down arrow on the Enable/Disable Automatic Crossfades

combo button, select Default Crossfade Curves and select a

crossfade curve.

3. Make sure no clips are currently selected by clicking in the Clips pane

outside of any clips.

4. Hold down the Shift key and drag the second guitar clip on top of the

first guitar track and drop it there; make sure that Blend Old and New is

selected in the Drag and Drop dialog box before you click OK. Shift-

dragging ensures that a clip can only move vertically and not

horizontally, so you don’t need to enable the Snap to Grid button to

keep the same exact rhythmic placement of a dragged clip.

The two clips appear on the same track with a crossfade marker on the

overlapping data. The first guitar track fades out as the second guitar fades

in. For more information about crossfades, see the online help topic “Fades

and Crossfades.”

Next Step: Bouncing Tracks.