Hello.

I'm new to PD as well but I was having the same problem and found this simple work around.

I stretched out the timeline so I had a place to work on the audio track. I clicked the point on the track where I wanted the volume to start fading and then I was able to drag the volume line down to fade it out.

This may not be the best solution but it was quick and seemed to work pretty well.

Good luck.

Ned.

Quote: I stretched out the timeline so I had a place to work on the audio track. I clicked the point on the track [Do you mean clip?] where I wanted the volume to start fading and then I was able to drag the volume line down to fade it out.

This may not be the best solution but it was quick and seemed to work pretty well.

Good luck.

Ned.

That's certainly one way to do it, and not a bad one at all. It gives you the most flexibility, because you can add as many of those little markers as you want and adjust them any way you want. If you want the audio to fade down and back up, just add more markers. To get rid of a marker, put your mouse cursor over it so it turns red, then click-drag it off the clip.

The "Music Room" has the option to initiate a fade-out at the point where the scrubber is sitting, but it does a straight line fadeout which is sometimes not what you want. It does save having to zoom in on the timeline. Jerry Schwartz

Use the razorblade tool to split the audio clip in multiple places close to each other. Now look on the lower left corner of the timeline, you'll see a very small image of what looks like a scatter plot. Click that. Now you will be able to drag the volume up or down in each of the areas that you split your audio. You can get a fading effect by doing that.

Straight line fades, can seem to end a bit abruptly at times. I've found (other's results may differ), that adding another key frame, and giving it a little bump down, at about a two thirds of the way through the fade, does sometimes result in a fade with a much smoother tailing out.



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Quote: Use the razorblade tool to split the audio clip in multiple places close to each other. Now look on the lower left corner of the timeline, you'll see a very small image of what looks like a scatter plot. Click that. Now you will be able to drag the volume up or down in each of the areas that you split your audio. You can get a fading effect by doing that.

Personally, I wouldn't split the clip. That's something you can't undo, and I think adjusting the volume in each of those clips individually would be a nuisance.

Instead of splitting the clip, I would just add markers to the line on the waveform display of the original. Jerry Schwartz

I will try that and see...it's very deceptive though because using the transition from one song to the other appears to work perfectly when editing. But when I burn my final project, the songs are being cut off.
I want the 2 songs to blend from one to the other, not simply one song fading out then another one fading in. I may try putting the songs on different tracks and manually fading them as suggested here in the forum.. Thanks.

Steven -

Yes - they need to be on separate tracks to allow the overlap while one fades out & the other fades in.



Cheers - Tony
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