Specifications

Chapter 28: Fades and Crossfades 621
Creating a Crossfade
To create a crossfade between two clips:
1 With the Selector tool, click at the point where
you want the crossfade to begin in the first clip
and drag to where you want it to end in the sec-
ond clip. Crossfade selections can begin and
end anywhere in their respective clips.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Edit > Fades > Create.
• Press Control+F (Windows) or
Command+F (Mac).
3 Use the view buttons to adjust the view of the
crossfade. It may take a few moments to calcu-
late the waveform display for long selections.
4 Select an Out Shape and an In Shape.
5 Select a Linking option.
6 Click the Audition button to audition the cross-
fade. For long crossfades, it may take Pro Tools
a few moments to calculate and load the audio
into playback RAM.
7 Do one of the following:
• Adjust the curves by selecting different preset
shapes with the
Out Shape and In Shape pop-up
menus.
• Drag the Fade-In and Fade-Out curves to a cus-
tom shape. By choosing None as the Linking op-
tion, you can drag the beginning or end points of
a fade curve to adjust its beginning or end point.
8 Click the Audition button to audition the cross-
fade again.
9 When the crossfade sounds right, click OK.
To remove a crossfade, do one of the following:
 Select the area of the track containing any cross-
fades you want to delete and choose
Edit >
Fades > Delete
.
 Select the crossfade with the Time Grabber 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.
To trim a crossfade:
1 Select the crossfade with the Time Grabber tool,
or double-click it with the Selector tool.
2 With any of the Trim tools, trim either side of
the crossfade. The crossfade is recalculated to
reflect 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 duration as the crossfade prior to the
tempo change.
If there is not enough audio material to complete
the crossfade, or if the new crossfade area falls out-
side of valid clip boundaries, the crossfade is re-
moved.
To apply a Crossfade using the Default
Crossfade setting (in the Editing Prefer-
ences), and without opening the Fades dia-
log, press Control+Start+F (Windows) or
Command+Control+F (Mac).
Crossfade lengths can be resized with any of
the Trim tools, including Nudge Trim com-
mands. See “Using the Trim Tools” on
page 549 and “Trimming with Nudge” on
page 594.