Audio Fade in Fade out doesn't work

[rkstudio]

I can't seem to get the fade in and fade out to work with audio. I put the scrubber at the beginning of the sound clip and clicked on fade in but nothing changed. What could I be doing wrong???

When I searched the "help" file, all it said was "To apply fade effects to your audio clips
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Click the Fade-in and Fade-out buttons".

I hope that didn't take too much time and effort for them to write those in-depth instructions.

[BrianCee]

It doesn't matter where the scrubber - or timeline cursor is over the clip - what is important is that the clip is selected - that is has yellow lines all around it

I don't know what your expecting - but the default fade in is only one second and with some audio you may not notice that - go to "Settings >> Preferences >> Edit" and set a longer fade time

change to sound mixer view and you will then see the audio levels - does the clip have an upslope at the beginning - if yes then fade is applied - you could then use "Rubberbanding" to extend the fade in as well

[rkstudio]

Thank you, Brian.

If only Corel would write detailed instructions like that. How would anyone know that the length of the fade would have to be adjusted in the settings. I didn't think of that. The thing that's confusing is that most adjustments are made in the options panel, but this isn't. Maybe they should change that.

For some reason, when I was doing the fade in and out, there was no change at all until I kept playing it back several times. When I finally created the video file, then I saw that the fade worked.
I was also playing around with the sound mixer too after seeing it on a youtube video. I guess what I need to do is insert a practice video into the timeline and play around with different things because the sound mixer, I'm sure among other things is one thing I never experimented with.

Anyway, thanks again for your help!

Bob

[Thordell]

rkstudio said.

" I guess what I need to do is insert a practice video into the timeline and play around with different things because the sound mixer, I'm sure among other things is one thing I never experimented with"


You can't beat just playing around, I have a project that's called Play and when I've got a bit of free time I call that up and set up all sorts of things that go through my head and just experiment, It's amazing what you come across and learn

Alan

[BrianCee]

For some reason, when I was doing the fade in and out, there was no change at all until I kept playing it back several times. When I finally created the video file, then I saw that the fade worked. Bob

Yes - another point that perhaps should have been mentioned before - you must change to 'Project' mode to hear or see any changes to clips in the timeline - - if you play in clip mode the original un-modified clip in your library is played