Can you Overlap Audio (or Crossfade)

[manman]

Hello,
I am a big fan of Video Studio albeit a new user. I use VS 11.5 Plus and so far very impressed.
My question is about the audio track. When I use multiple sound files on the audio track is there any way to crossfade the audio tracks such that before the first ends the next starts up?
I have played with fade out and fade in but that doesn't really does it. The music fades out in first track and then the music from track 2 fades in. I am looking to overlap the two.
Any help is much appreciated.
P.S. -- love reading all the advice I see here. I have learnt quite a few good techniques.

Thanks!

[hrpufnstuf65]

Hello,
I am a big fan of Video Studio albeit a new user. I use VS 11.5 Plus and so far very impressed.
My question is about the audio track. When I use multiple sound files on the audio track is there any way to crossfade the audio tracks such that before the first ends the next starts up?
I have played with fade out and fade in but that doesn't really does it. The music fades out in first track and then the music from track 2 fades in. I am looking to overlap the two.
Any help is much appreciated.
P.S. -- love reading all the advice I see here. I have learnt quite a few good techniques.

Thanks!

Hey manman,

I'm new to VS 11+ as well, but from using another editing software before, i know that you can place audio on both the music AND the voice tracks, and overlap them accordingly to achieve a crossfade. As one song is ending on the voice track, click and drag the one on the music track to create the crossfade.

Hope this helps.....

[hrpufnstuf65]

Hello,
I am a big fan of Video Studio albeit a new user. I use VS 11.5 Plus and so far very impressed.
My question is about the audio track. When I use multiple sound files on the audio track is there any way to crossfade the audio tracks such that before the first ends the next starts up?
I have played with fade out and fade in but that doesn't really does it. The music fades out in first track and then the music from track 2 fades in. I am looking to overlap the two.
Any help is much appreciated.
P.S. -- love reading all the advice I see here. I have learnt quite a few good techniques.

Thanks!

Hey manman,

I'm new to VS 11+ as well, but from using another editing software before, i know that you can place audio on both the music AND the voice tracks, and overlap them accordingly to achieve a crossfade. As one song is ending on the voice track, click and drag the beginning of the one on the music track, and place it towards the end of the song on the voice track to create the crossfade.

Hope this helps.....

[manman]

Thanks hrpufnstuf65! I will try your suggesstion.

One concern tho. Do you know if you loose the sound quality in the voice track. Perhaps it is sampled at a lower rate than the music track. Just wondering if VS does that as a feature to keep the output file size small.

[Black Lab]

To me the two tracks sound identical. BTW, v12 is supposed to support audio crossfades.

[Ken Veal]

If you put one track in the music track and another in the voice track,
position them in the timeline view so that the start of the 2nd track is
overlapping the other track, that is before the !st one ends.Where it is
positioned will govern how much of the 2 tracks are playing at the same time. ..................hope this is what you wanted.....................Ken

[sjj1805]

If the above suggestions are not good enough then a further alternative is to prepare the audio track in Audacity. Here you can have several overlapping tracks and several tools available including fade in/ fade out, envelope, bass boost, volume boost (up/down) and much much more.

The best bit though is that you have large displays of the WAV structure.
I have previously suggested to Corel that they ought to consider putting a copy on the VideoStudio distribution disc - one of the best free tools that exist (along with the "Burger Transitions") to complement VideoStudio.

[erdna]

Audacity is a fine audio editor, but how can I garantee that e.g. a specific audio crossover segment corresponds with a specific video scene? Do I need to use the timecode to get it right?