Quick Audio fade Out/In?

[wywso0]

I am using VS 10+ on a Vista PC.

I am putting together a very simple home video of my wife's young cousin. It consists of a number of clips shot in her mother's living room. The clips range from about 30 sec to a few minutes long, and there was a gap of a few minutes between shooting each clip. The sound is a mixture of background conversation amongst a number of adults and the adults speaking to the little girl.

To avoid a distracting 'jump' in the audio track as the video moves from one clip to the next at each change-over I usually fade the sound down over the last second or so of the preceding clip and then fade it up in the fist second of the following one. I have been doing this using the 'rubber band' in the aduio view screen.

Is there an easier way to do this? What I'd like is some kind of audio transition which does the fade out/in for me. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Ron P.]

Try setting the dafault fade-in/out in the Preferences dialog (F6 or File menu>Preferences), to the duration desired. It is located on the Edit tab, and the default setting is 1 sec.

Once that is set, then just press the Fade-out/Fade-in icons to the right of the speaker on the Attribute tab. For example if you set the default to be 3 secs, then pressing the Fade icon will apply a 3 second fade-in or fade-out to your audio.