Auto crossfade optionally between clips when overlapped.

In Vegas Pro there is an option to turn on and clips get crossfaded automatically. I would love to see an option to turn of fir this.

There is a shortcut to automatically add a transition when dragging clips to overlap. Is that what you're referring to?

Huge +1 for auto-crossfade mode!

I come from Vegas Pro as well and I really miss the auto-crossfade feature. This is also a standard feature in DAWs, but I haven't found a way to do this for audio clips.

On the Edit page Shift+Alt+drag (a weird modifier combination and you can't change it) creates an auto-crossfade... but it behaves very strangely. It only works when dragging a video clip. If audio is also linked/selected to the video clip being dragged then it will also auto-crossfade the audio. If you drag the audio clip instead of the video clip, then the audio clips won't crossfade but the video clips will. And it doesn't work at all if you have only audio clips and no video clips. To my knowledge, you can't auto-crossfade at all in the Fairlight page.

Also, Shift+Alt+drag only works on the very first overlap. Once you let go of the clip you can't get this same behavior back. If you try to move the clip again (even just one frame) while in Selection mode, the crossfade is deleted, which is extremely frustrating.

I too would love to see a toggle button to have auto-crossfade always enabled, it should also work for audio clips, and it should allow you to move clips after the initial crossfade while changing the length of the crossfade as the clip moves.

It feels like a beta testing when basic features like this are not implemented.

It feels like a beta testing when basic features like this are not implemented.

I agree. It's extremely bizarre to me how Resolve has so many incredible advanced features, yet somehow skipped right over extremely basic functions like this. It's like learning to run before learning to crawl.

While I absolutely love the advanced features, we really do need the basics too. Not having them makes using the software as a whole far more frustrating than it needs to be.

+1000

I'll never understand how people could efficiently work without automatic crossfades.

To illustrate what we're talking about (hopefully the same thing) here are some videos to illustrate it:
* Vegas
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* Magix Video pro X
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* Mixbus (wonderful approach IMHO)
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* Reaper
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I would be very interested to have discussions about HOW it's even possible to be efficient using a software that do not provide this very basic (personal thought) functionality.

I'm staying using Vegas (so paying) for this main reason.

To illustrate what we're talking about (hopefully the same thing) here are some videos to illustrate it:

Yep, that's the same thing. Dragging a clip over another clip and automatically creates a crossfade and moving the clips afterward automatically adjusts the length of the crossfade.

I would be very interested to have discussions about HOW it's even possible to be efficient using a software that do not provide this very basic (personal thought) functionality.

Same here. But I guess for those who use hard cuts and don't do a lot of transitions/crossfades, then it wouldn't be much of an issue for that kind of workflow. I'm primarily an audio guy, so crossfades are super important for me. Even the Fairlight page doesn't have auto crossfade. I've essentially given up trying to do any kind of audio editing/mixing in Resolve. I export each audio track out of Resolve and move to Reaper for editing and mixing, then render a stereo mix out of Reaper and put it back into Resolve.

I would be very interested to have discussions about HOW it's even possible to be efficient using a software that do not provide this very basic (personal thought) functionality.

Been editing for two decades. Never needed it. Even though Resolve has it, I never use it.

I just prefer to add transitions the 'normal' way.

Been editing for two decades. Never needed it. Even though Resolve has it, I never use it.

I don't use it in Resolve either because it is implemented poorly and lacking functions that make it useful, but I've used auto crossfade for two decades in other editors where it was implemented well. Resolve's way of handling transitions is really bad on multiple levels, hopefully the basic editing functions will get some attention soon.

I would be very interested to have discussions about HOW it's even possible to be efficient using a software that do not provide this very basic (personal thought) functionality.

Same here. But I guess for those who use hard cuts and don't do a lot of transitions/crossfades, then it wouldn't be much of an issue for that kind of workflow. I'm primarily an audio guy, so crossfades are super important for me. Even the Fairlight page doesn't have auto crossfade. I've essentially given up trying to do any kind of audio editing/mixing in Resolve. I export each audio track out of Resolve and move to Reaper for editing and mixing, then render a stereo mix out of Reaper and put it back into Resolve.[/quote]

Same here ! I'm doing the exact same process: exporting all audio tracks one by one and using Reaper to actually have a usable sound editing environment.

I've essentially given up trying to do any kind of audio editing/mixing in Resolve. I export each audio track out of Resolve and move to Reaper for editing and mixing, then render a stereo mix out of Reaper and put it back into Resolve.

Sorry to revive an old thread, but can you share how you go back and forth between Resolve and Reaper? I am editing multi-take, multicam classical music videos and end up doing the edits in Reaper and then re-editing to find the right sections of audio in Resolve. It is super time consuming.

Sorry to revive an old thread, but can you share how you go back and forth between Resolve and Reaper?

Unfortunately, my method isn't very eloquent since Reaper doesn't support AAF or OMF natively, and for me it doesn't seem worth it to purchase a third party product like AATranslator. There are also free scripts users have made, but I'm not sure how good they are.

Here's how I've done it:
1) Edit the video first and leave extra space for the audio so it can be edited in Reaper.
2) Render each audio track and the video track out of Resolve.
3) Import all of the audio files and video file into Reaper. Reaper has video support, so you can load the video in and edit the audio to the video.
4) Render the final mix of the audio out of Reaper.
5) Import the mixed audio into Resolve, resave the project with "Final" and delete all the old audio tracks so there is only the final audio mix, and finally render the video out of Resolve with the mixed audio.

I'm sure this would be much faster with AAF or OMF since the edits would automatically open up in Reaper. So if you do this for a living, it might be worth it to invest in AATranslator which I've seen a lot of Reaper users talking about. But my method works fine for me and I still prefer this to using Fairlight for anything other than very basic audio edits and effects.

Thanks! I wrote my own Python script and it's working just barely well enough to use:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=190404#p1012018

Still has a bug where clips are off by a couple of frames toward the end, but it's still way faster than doing it manually...and it is free!

I used Vegas Pro and the auto crossfade for both audio and video was a staple edit feature. I purchased Resolve Studio several years ago instead of getting the latest Vegas version, but every time I edit in Resolve I consider getting Vegas again. It is a frustrating issue to edit without auto crossfade and it has kept me from really learning Resolve’s other features.