Video Crossfade Without Audio Crossfade

HaroldF wrote on 11/9/2011, 1:45 PM

I would like to crossfade two video events, but to keep the audio from the first event during the fade (effectively deleting the audio from the second event for the duration of the fade).

Is there a way to do this?

Harold

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/9/2011, 2:08 PM

There are a couple of ways to do this.

But I'd recommend putting your first video on one video track and your second on a video track above it and partially overlapping it. When you add a Fade In to the upper clip, it will appear as a video dissolve between the clips.

You can then use audio envelopes to manipulate the audio any way you'd like.

HaroldF wrote on 11/9/2011, 2:29 PM

Thanks, Steve. I figured out a different approach, which as to ungroup the audio from the video and trim the audio track, and then do the crossfade.

Since I am almost brand-new to Movie Studio, do you have any thoughts about one of these ways versus the other?

H

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/9/2011, 3:52 PM

Nope. There are always lots of different ways to achieve virtually the same results, Harold. So it's whatever you're comfortable with.

Chienworks wrote on 11/9/2011, 8:45 PM

Rather than ungrouping, look for the "ignore event grouping" button (looks like a padlock) and turn it on to temporarily disable grouping. Make your individual adjustments to the audio and video tracks. When you're done turn this button off to re-enable grouping. This way you don't end up with the audio & video no longer grouped together.

HaroldF wrote on 11/9/2011, 10:42 PM

Thanks! I would not have seen that tiny button for a while yet!

ArtfulCodger wrote on 11/10/2011, 9:34 AM

I don't even see the padlock, could someone tell me where it is?

HaroldF wrote on 11/10/2011, 10:03 AM

On my pretty-default setup, it's in the top row of little icons. Find where it says "Make Movie" up there and move to the left five icons. It does NOT look like a padlock IMO, although I can see the resemblance.

H