Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

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You can thank Tony404 for all the stupid questions I'll be asking here. ;)

With my style I do a lot of video cutting, but only a little audio cutting. I do mainly just straight cuts with a few simple cross fades on the video. However, the audio usually has longer cross fades since there are fewer cuts on the audio track.

Recently I've been running into a problem. I don't know if it's a setting I hit or what. But if I have a cross fade going on, and I drag a piece of audio, OR if I move my selection (which has audio cross fades in the selection), I lose the cross fade.

Does that make sense?
If I drag a piece of audio thru my audio track... (for whatever reason) as the audio passes near a cut a new cross fade starts (I have auto crossfades turned on) and as soon as that audio passes over the crossfade, I lose the cross fade and it goes back to being a hard cut. Now then, If I just CLICK that hard cut it instantly goes back to being a crossfade.

I can drag a piece of video thru the time line and the same thing happens where a cross fade starts to generate and as soon as that video is clear of the crossfade the original crossfade is left intact.

I hope I'm able to explain that problem clearly. Does anyone know how to make it so my audio crossfades don't disappear if I move the audio track, or if I drag audio through it?
 
Re: Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

Not sure I followed you. Any chance of putting up some pics?
 
Re: Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

LOL, I knew that wasn't going to make sense.
ok. see if these images help.

The actual video has been blocked out, with a black and white bar but you can still see where the video crossfade is.

Here is a pic of the crossfade as I create it. This is how it should look.
http://creativealloy.com/clients/board/crossfade-normal.gif


Now then, if I make an adjustment, as in drag another audio clip though that track and if that audio passes through this cross fade, the cross fade goes back to not being a crossfade.

In this example all I've done was select these few clips and moved them over a few seconds to the left, and as you can see the crossfade did not stay as a cross fade. My style is very open and free, I move clips all over the place all the time. I usually just leave this problem alone until I'm completely finished and ready to render then I go back in, and scroll through my audio track and reset EVERY crossfade. It can be a pain in the ass with the amount of cuts I generally have. Is there a way to fix it? I showed my settings in the top tool bar to show how I'm setup. Is there anything up there that could be causing this?
http://creativealloy.com/clients/board/crossfade-after-adjustment.gif



normal crossfade:
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after adjustment:
crossfade-after-adjustment.gif



Do these images help?
 
Re: Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

So, all you did was select the clips and move them, and the crossfades disappeared?

I can't replicate the problem -- I select crossfaded clips and move them, and the crossfades stay. How do you select the clips?

I'm also trying to move audio through the crossfades and get them to disappear, but once the audio clip has moved through, in every instance, they snap back to where they are.

I guess I need more detailed information, because either I'm not doing exactly what you're doing, or you've got something set differently. (Pretty much all of my options are at default.)
 
Re: Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=Vegas;num=1107068146;start=0#3 date=01/30/05 at 15:15:48]So, all you did was select the clips and move them, and the crossfades disappeared?

I can't replicate the problem -- I select crossfaded clips and move them, and the crossfades stay. How do you select the clips?

I'm also trying to move audio through the crossfades and get them to disappear, but once the audio clip has moved through, in every instance, they snap back to where they are.

I guess I need more detailed information, because either I'm not doing exactly what you're doing, or you've got something set differently. (Pretty much all of my options are at default.)[/quote]

ok.. by your description, you are doing EXACTLY what I'm doing. I just select them by clicking and dragging a selection thru the clips I want to select. And move them, and yes the crossfades ONLY ON THE AUDIO TRACK dissapear.

Now the truly messed up thing is, I do believe it was a setting misconfiguration. It must be. But HOW and WHERE do I reset it, because SOMEHOW it's set to open EVERY project with this corrupt setting. It's been like that for ages now. I just have been dealing with it.

Thanks tony404, for turning me on to this place.


But yeah man, you do understand what's happening. I'm doing the same thing you're doing except my crossfades disappear. Frustrating.
 
Re: Something is wrong with my audio, please help.

Is it Ctrl+D when you start Vegas to reset all?

Hunter
 
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