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If there is not enough audio material to com-
plete the crossfade, or if the new crossfade area
falls outside of valid region boundaries, the
crossfade is removed.
Pre and Post Crossfade
Selections
By making a selection that begins or ends pre-
cisely on the border of two regions, you can cre-
ate “pre” or “post” crossfades. Use the Tab key to
place the insertion point at the exact beginning
or end of a region.
To create a pre- or post-crossfade:
1
With the Selector tool, click in the track that
contains the regions you want to crossfade.
2
Do one of the following:
• Press Tab to move forward to the next
region boundary.
– or –
• Press Control+Tab (Windows) or
Option+Tab (Mac) to move back to the
previous region boundary.
3
Extend the selection as follows:
• Shift-drag to adjust your selection, or press
Shift+Tab to extend the selection forward
to the next region boundary.
– or –
• Press Control+Shift+Tab (Windows) or
Option+Shift+Tab (Mac) to extend the
selection back to the previous region
boundary.
4
Do one of the following:
• Choose Edit > Fades > Create.
– or –
• 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 2 Only)
Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Pro-
duction Toolkit 2 can automatically apply real-
time fade-ins and fade-outs to all region bound-
aries in the session. Specify the duration (0 to
10 ms) for automatic real-time fades with the
Auto Region Fade In/Out Length preference in the
Operation Preferences page). These fade-ins and
fade-outs are performed during playback and do
not appear in the Edit window, and are not writ-
ten to disk.
The automatic fade-in/out option also has an ef-
fect on Voice borrowing in a session. Whenever
a lower-priority virtual track “pops thru” a si-
lence 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 produc-
tion situations such as dialogue tracking. For ex-
ample, 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 silence occurs in the dialog, play-
back switches smoothly to and from the back-
ground track without clicks or pops.
Using automatic fade-ins/outs saves you the
trouble of editing to zero-crossings or creating
numerous rendered fades in order to eliminate
clicks or pops in playback. However, since these
autofades are not written to disk, those clicks or
pops still exist in the underlying sound file.
Consequently, those anomalies still appear if
the Duplicate AudioSuite plug-in or the Export
AutoFades are not applied to AudioSuite
processing.