Audio banding - VS10+ crashes when I try to edit

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:23 pm

I have pulled the banding down to the lowest level to fade the audio out of a clip. Yet there is still an audible 'blip' at the end when played back. To try to eliminate this I expand the video as far as it will go and see that in the last 0.2 seconds the banding goes up from 0 to normal, hence the 'blip'. As soon as I try to touch this wayward banding point VS10+ crashes. Reproducible every time. Does anyone know what I can do about this? Thanks.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:42 pm

I'm presuming it's the same as in VS11+ but after trimming the song to fit go to the audio panel and click on the fade out. You get a nice fade-out to 0.

Also...if you zoom in the timeline, you can pick up that offending blip ending by picking up the little square handle and lowering it down to the minus db.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:49 pm

Thanks, but I cannot find an audio fade out for the audio component of a video clip in VS10+. Also, zooming in on the offending banding square and clicking it, causes VS10+ to crash.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:54 pm

I'm presuming you have split the audio from the video?

Or maybe that feature is not in VS10. Perhaps someone with VS10 experience should handle the answer....sorry.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:15 pm

It doesn't matter if the audio is split or not, you CAN fade out the audio.

If the audio and video are intact the fade in/out buttons are on the Video tab when the video clip is selected.

If the audio is split the fade in/out buttons are on the Music & Voice tab when the audio clip is selected.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:15 pm

Clevo -- not sure why you should have presumed that...

ruggy -- in VS 10, with your clip in the timeline, then in the very centre of the default screen, i.e just to the right of the lower right hand corner of the preview screen, there is the little digital clock, And to the immediate right of that is a window with (by default) 100 in it (indicating 100% volume for the main track). Then to the immediate right of that are icons with four upward then four downward bars. These are the fade in and out controls, and it you click one or the other with a clip highlighted, then the volume of that clip will fade in or out. And of course, you pre-set the time for the fade in or out in File > Preferences > Edit.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:22 pm

Well there you go... I presumed that because it's the way I have always done it

. I love this forum.

Now we have to try and sort out why his VS crashed when he tries to change that fade manually

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:26 pm

I agree. It would be useful to know the properties of the file, and in particular, whether there is anything unusual about the audio format. Some MP3 tracks -- which can be used with formats such as DivX -- can cause problems, for instance...

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:35 pm

Thanks guys for your quick responses. The video and sound are from a bog standard AVI file produced from a very good DV camera to DV tape. There is nothing wrong with the video or audio, but now that I know about fading I will not let VS10+ crash on me again. Thanks a lot, I appreciate your efforts.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:40 pm

Just for the record, I have found out why VS10+ crashes. At the end of my video I have 3 minutes of rolling credits. As long as I do not try to edit them I can do whatever I want with the banding, no crashes. As soon as I try to edit the credits by moving them up or down the frame, the memory usage leaps incredibly - this is a VS10+ bug that I hope is fixed in VS11. At this stage my 750MB RAM computer is swapping and paging its heart out trying to keep up with well over 1.1GB of memory demand. If I now try to touch a band point VS10+ crashes - obviously a memory related issue. Thanks.