Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide622
Pre and Post Crossfade
Selections
By making a selection that begins or ends precisely
on the border of two clips, you can create “pre” or
“post” crossfades. Use the Tab key to place the in-
sertion point at the exact beginning or end of a clip.
To create a pre- or post-crossfade:
1 With the Selector tool, click in the track that
contains the clips you want to crossfade.
2 Do one of the following:
• Press Tab to move forward to the next
clip boundary.
• Press Control+Tab (Windows) or
Option+Tab (Mac) to move back to the
previous clip boundary.
3 Extend the selection by doing one of the follow-
ing:
• Shift-drag to adjust your selection, or press
Shift+Tab to extend the selection forward to the
next clip boundary.
• Press Control+Shift+Tab (Windows) or
Option+Shift+Tab (Mac) to extend the
selection back to the previous clip boundary.
4 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Edit > Fades > Create.
• Press Control+F (Windows) or
Command+F (Mac).
5 Select a fade type and click OK.
Using AutoFades
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete
Production Toolkit Only)
Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Pro-
duction Toolkit can automatically apply real-time
fade-ins and fade-outs to all clip boundaries in the
session on playback. Specify the duration (0 to
10 ms) for automatic real-time fades with the
Auto
Clip Fade In/Out Length
preference in the Opera-
tion Preferences page). These fade-ins and fade-
outs are performed during playback and do not ap-
pear in the Edit window.
The automatic fade-in/out option also has an effect
on Voice borrowing in a session. Whenever a
lower-priority virtual track “pops thru” a silence in
a higher-priority track on the same voice, a fade-in
and fade-out is applied to the transition.
This feature is especially useful in post production
situations such as dialogue tracking. For example,
you can assign both a dialogue track and a “room
tone” track with matching background to the same
voice. You can then set the
AutoFade option to a
moderate length (4 ms or so) so that whenever a si-
lence occurs in the dialog, playback switches
smoothly to and from the background track with-
out clicks or pops.
Using automatic fade-ins/outs saves you the trou-
ble of editing to zero-crossings or creating numer-
ous rendered fades in order to eliminate clicks or
pops in playback. However, those clicks or pops
still exist in the underlying sound file. Conse-
quently, those anomalies still appear if the Dupli-
cate AudioSuite plug-in or the
Export Clips As
Files
command (from the Clip List) are used to du-
plicate multiple clips as a continuous file. To ren-
der these real-time auto fades to disk, choose
File >
Bounce to > Disk
.
AutoFades are not applied to AudioSuite pro-
cessing.