Reynaud Venter wrote:aironaudio wrote:On the first machine I've had several instances of crossfades not working. I was using the Protools keyset for speed on the Fairlight and had a message "Cross fades cannot be created"
Is this Console only or also reproducible via the UI? Which function was used?
The function is menu-Trim/Crossfade Selection bound to a key on the computer keyboard. The same happens if the function is executed via the menu. In this case the function is bound to the key "F", as it is in ProTools.
Sidenote: the editing console does not provide access to this function.
Was the Fade command targeting a Clip, layered editing, or a Range?
(e.g. Batch Fades / Crossfade Selection / Audio Editor Range menu > Fade Head/Tail)
It was targeting a range across two clips that was made with the
Edit Selection Mode cursor and alternately with the IN and OUT keys on the editing console. Both produce the same results on some of these operations.
Preceding the crossfade command was copy/pasting small bits of another clip on top of others.
Clips upon which you past a small bit seem to survive underneath that pasted clip, and moving bits outside the pasted clip moves the one on the other side of the pasted clip. That's another matter I'll address in a different post. Perhaps this produces the problems.
One aspect I can reproduce on the Windows/non-networked machine seems to be entirely by design, which is that I get a windows that shows "Invalid Selection and in smaller grey text "Unable to create crossfade(s)". That is when there is a gap between the two clips across which I've made a range selection with the Edit Selection Mode cursor. That's a rather ancient design decision that costs a lot of time to fix, because it can happen a lot.
I'll be at the studio rig again in a day or two. I can run any tests that need be.
@Developers for the Fairlight page:
Crossfades should always work if they can with the range provided. Even if the range is too great for the clip source material to cover it, adjust the range to make a crossfade possible. Please always give the user the least amount of work to do.