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Select an Out Shape and an In Shape.
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Choose a Linking option.
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Click the Audition button, or play the session,
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to hear the crossfade. For long crossfades, it may
take Pro Tools a few moments to calculate and
load the audio into playback RAM.
Do one of the following:
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• Adjust the curves by choosing different
preset shapes with the Out Shape and In
Shape pop-up menus.
– or –
• Drag the Fade In/Out curves to a custom
shape. By choosing None as the Linking
option, you can drag the beginning or end
points of a fade curve to adjust its begin-
ning or end point.
Click the Audition button, or play the session,
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to hear the crossfade again.
When the crossfade is right, click OK. The fade
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is calculated and written to disk, but the audio
files and regions remain unchanged. Crossfades
are stored in the Fades Folder within the session
folder.
Crossfade lengths can later be resized with
any of the Trim tools.
To remove a crossfade, do one of the following:
Select the area of the track containing the
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crossfades you want to delete and choose Edit >
Fades > Delete.
Select the crossfade with the Time Grabber
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tool and press Backspace (Windows) or Delete
(Mac).
Right-click the crossfade with any of the edit
■
tools and select Delete Fades from the pop-up
menu.
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To trim a crossfade:
Select the crossfade with the Time Grabber
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tool, or double-click it with the Selector tool.
With any of the Trim tools, trim either side of
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the crossfade. The crossfade is recalculated to re-
flect the newly trimmed length.
Crossfades On Tick-Based Audio Tracks
Crossfades are re-rendered after changing tempo
in a tick-based audio track. The new crossfade is
the same length as the crossfade prior to the
tempo change.
If there is not enough audio material to com-
plete the crossfade, or if the new crossfade area
falls outside of valid region boundaries, the
crossfade is removed.
Pre and Post Crossfade Selections
By making a selection that begins or ends pre-
cisely on the border of two regions, you can cre-
ate "pre" or "post" crossfades. Use the Tab key to
place the insertion point at the exact beginning
or end of a region.
To create a pre- or post-crossfade:
With the Selector tool, click in the track that
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contains the regions you want to crossfade.
Do one of the following:
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• Press Tab to move forward to the next re-
gion boundary.
– or –
• Press Control+Tab (Windows) or Op-
tion+Tab (Mac) to move back to the previ-
ous region boundary.