User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide254
3 Click the Audition button to hear the
fade (or press the Spacebar to start/stop
playback).
4 You can adjust the curve by dragging it or
by choosing a different shape with the Out
Shape pop-up menu.
5 When you are finished, click OK.
Pro Tools calculates the fade and writes it
to disk. The chosen fade curve appears in
the region.
✽ After you have used the Fades command to
create a fade-in/out, you can still edit the
length of the fade by resizing its length with the
Trimmer.
To fade from the insertion point to a region
start point:
1 Place the cursor at the desired location in
the region.
2 Choose Edit > Fades > Fade To Start.
3 The fade is applied based on the Fade In
Preferences.
To fade from the insertion point to a region
end point:
1 Place the cursor at the desired location in
the region.
2 Choose Edit > Fades > Fade To End.
3 The fade is applied based on the Fade Out
Preferences.
Using the AutoFade Feature
{Pro Tools 24 MIX and Pro Tools 24 Only)
On Pro Tools 24 MIX and Pro Tools 24 sys-
tems, you can choose to have Pro Tools au-
tomatically apply real-time fade-ins/outs to
all region boundaries in the session. These
fade-ins/outs are performed during play-
back and do not appear in the Edit window,
and are not written to disk.
This automatic fade-in /out option also has
an effect on virtual track switching in a ses-
sion. Whenever a lower-priority virtual
track “pops thru” a silence in a higher-pri-
ority track on the same voice, a fade-in and
fade-out is applied to the transition.
This feature is especially useful in post-pro-
duction situations such as dialogue track-
ing. For example, you could assign both a
dialogue track and a “room tone” track
with matching background to the same
voice. You could then set the Auto-Fade op-
tion to a moderate length (4 ms or so) so
that whenever a silence occurred in the di-
alog, playback would switch smoothly to
and from the background track without
clicks or pops.
Using automatic fade-ins/fade-outs saves
you the trouble of editing to zero-crossings
or creating numerous rendered fades in or-
der to eliminate clicks or pops in playback.
However, since these autofades are not
written to disk, those clicks or pops still ex-
ist in the underlying sound file. Conse-
quently, those anomalies still appear if the
Duplicate AudioSuite Plug-In or the Export
Selected as Sound Files command (from the
Audio Regions List) are used to duplicate