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Old 01-11-2023, 02:25 AM
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Hi all,

I have been a Pro Tool user since the days of Digidesign, and I am struggling to perform a simple crossfade between a dual mono (stereo) waveform. Command + F, which normally is the keyboard shortcut for create fade does nothing, despite keyboard focus enabled in edit view. The keyboard shortcuts menu has command + F as 'create fades', and under the focus column the checkbox is ticked. When this is ticked I then get this error message when using the command + F shortcut "That command could not be run at this time".

Has something changed with all these recent updates? Simple fades can be applied to the top and tails of waveforms, but if a break is made in the waveform for editing/processing purposes, I can't apply a crossfade.

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Old 01-11-2023, 05:06 AM
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If you use the smart tool in the bottom corner where the two clips meet, are you able to create a crossfade that way? Have you confirmed that there aren't already fades on the clips (very small ones can hide; zoom way in to check)?
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Old 01-11-2023, 05:40 PM
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If you use the smart tool in the bottom corner where the two clips meet, are you able to create a crossfade that way? Have you confirmed that there aren't already fades on the clips (very small ones can hide; zoom way in to check)?
There are no small fades on any of the clips, they are normally just rendered/processed clips from Izotope RX.
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Old 01-11-2023, 06:54 AM
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Hi all,

I have been a Pro Tool user since the days of Digidesign, and I am struggling to perform a simple crossfade between a dual mono (stereo) waveform. Command + F, which normally is the keyboard shortcut for create fade does nothing, despite keyboard focus enabled in edit view. The keyboard shortcuts menu has command + F as 'create fades', and under the focus column the checkbox is ticked. When this is ticked I then get this error message when using the command + F shortcut "That command could not be run at this time".

Has something changed with all these recent updates? Simple fades can be applied to the top and tails of waveforms, but if a break is made in the waveform for editing/processing purposes, I can't apply a crossfade.

Any suggestions?
Are you making a selection when using Command+F or just placing your cursor at a point in the clip? With command+F you need to make a selection for where you want the face to occur. If it’s a cross fade then the selection needs to be across the clip boundaries.

When keyboard focus is turned on, you do not use Command+F anymore. You use the keyboard letters for the type of fade you want on the clip. In this case, just placing the cursor where you want the fade to begin or end works and pressing the appropriate letter D for fade in, G for fade out, and F for cross fade (selection still needs to be made for this one) will do the trick.

Huzzam makes a good point that if you have auto create fades when editing turned on the micro fades will keep you from creating cross fades across an edit or clip break.
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Old 01-11-2023, 05:58 PM
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Are you making a selection when using Command+F or just placing your cursor at a point in the clip? With command+F you need to make a selection for where you want the face to occur. If it’s a cross fade then the selection needs to be across the clip boundaries.

When keyboard focus is turned on, you do not use Command+F anymore. You use the keyboard letters for the type of fade you want on the clip. In this case, just placing the cursor where you want the fade to begin or end works and pressing the appropriate letter D for fade in, G for fade out, and F for cross fade (selection still needs to be made for this one) will do the trick.

Huzzam makes a good point that if you have auto create fades when editing turned on the micro fades will keep you from creating cross fades across an edit or clip break.
There are no small fades creates on these clips, they're just usually rendered clips from Izotope RX. Where is the preferences option to auto create fade? Is it preserve fades when editing?

Obviously making a small selection over the clips for the crossfade, normally command + F will bring up the crossfade window to create the type of crossfade.

Now interestingly, I just opened up the same session and it appears to be working as normal. Command + F triggers the crossfade menu, and just F auto creates a crossfade. Tested on both a stereo audio track, and dual mono. Worth mentioning that in this particular session I am only recording/editing/processing a stereo input in dual mono, with both tracks hard panned left/right and grouped for editing purposes. For testing purposes I just imported a stereo audio file, 16/44.1.

Other useful information to note, the session is 24-bit / 96 KHz AIFF interleaved.

Do you think there may be a conflict somewhere between mac OS and compatible audio plug-ins?
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There are no small fades creates on these clips, they're just usually rendered clips from Izotope RX.
Do the RX rendered files have overlaps (padded heads and tails)? If not, no crossfades.
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Do the RX rendered files have overlaps (padded heads and tails)? If not, no crossfades.
This is the most likely culprit. AudioSuite processing rendered with no handles: set to Entire Selection instead of Clip By Clip. RX connect is the worst because it always defaults to Entire Selection, even when saved in Window Configs, etc., whereas other plugins, even pother RX plugins, will remember the Clip By Clip state.
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This is the most likely culprit. AudioSuite processing rendered with no handles: set to Entire Selection instead of Clip By Clip. RX connect is the worst because it always defaults to Entire Selection, even when saved in Window Configs, etc., whereas other plugins, even pother RX plugins, will remember the Clip By Clip state.
I'll do some testing and report back. Thanks for the advice.
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