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karyslav
Participant
January 23, 2019
Question

Is there way how to cut selection in half and fade in/out selected portion in multitrack editor?

  • January 23, 2019
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Hi!

My workflow is filled with a lot of cuting out of the mass.

So what i do, is I find a mistake/breath or something, cut it in half, fade out previous part, fade in next part. If I can select portion with an error, make some „magic“ and it will be cuted exactly in half, and from left it wil be fade-out, and on the right side fade in on the lenght of the selection of each pieces, that would save me like a 1-2 hours a day.

Is there way, how to do this? Even with make it two part.

You can see what I want to achieve on video: https://youtu.be/P8KhUZXinE4

Is there a way? Thank you!

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2019

But that's what 'editing' is! You can't automate that, as the precise nature of what you are cutting is entirely programme-dependant. No automated system could achieve what you can, simply because it can't hear the result. The only thing I'd do differently with your example is overlap the joins slightly, so that there's no possibility of any discontinuity at that point, which there could be potentially if you just butt them together.

It becomes a little easier to make the split if you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-K, which will split the clip where the cursor is, on the highlighted track, but that's as far as you can really go with this - everything else depends upon listening to the result.

karyslav
karyslavAuthor
Participant
January 23, 2019

Sorry. I did maybe explain it badly.

I do not want to automate that for auto editing the whole timeline! Nono.

I just want to make this „action“ only on the selected portion of the track.

I will select portion. Do a shortcut - the selection get sliced exatly in the half of the selection, and on the both sides of the selection from cut it will me fadein/fadeout.

This CAN be automate, because i will select only specific portion and the operation can be done automatically. Ony on the short, selected path. Only on the one breath.

Is it clearer now?

ryclark
Participating Frequently
January 23, 2019

What you might find a bit quicker is to do Ripple Delete Time Selection in Selected Track. Rather than Splitting the clip and then moving the two parts together afterwards Ripple Delete will remove the selected portion and automatically bring the ends together. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to do the Ripple Delete which will make it much quicker. then you can just grab the end of one of the clips and slide it over the other to automatically produce a crossfade.