Pulling Apart Crossfades

[joachim]

Originally Posted by Gohanto

Not to jack this thread, but is it possible to do the exact opposite of this? (When you've got two clips on separate tracks with overlapping fades like the last photo, then drag one on top of the other and have it become a crossfade instead of just editing on top of the other?)

Reason being I tend to put room tone on a separate track with crossfades when I'm checkerboarding dialog, but then if I drag the room tone into the same track as the dialog track I was fading out of, it becomes an edit and I need to redo it. Granted I'm still a student and maybe that's just bad practice???

Thanks,

Old thread, but I was thinking about the same issue (the opposite of preserving fades), when cutting dialog for a feature length movie ... .

A kind of workaround :
drag the lower clip to the upper track
double-click the fade in area
Edit - Fades - Delete
F for crossfade
(same for the fade out area)


Notes :
The crossfade will be the default crossfade type, which may not be the original intent.
Edit - Fades - Delete : best recalled with a macro / own shortcut.
Or a macro doing the following after dragging the room tone clip to the upper track :
- Arrow down , Shift-Tab , Edit Fades Delete , F , Tab Tab Shift-Tab , Edit Fades Delete , F.