Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade Button and the Tail Fade Button
You can use the Head Fade button and the Tail Fade button to add dissolves on one or more video tracks (or fades on one or more audio tracks).
You can map the Head Fade button and the Tail Fade button from the Command palette to a key on your keyboard or to an existing button location such as the Tool palette. For more information, see
Mapping User-Selectable Buttons.
| Head Fade button |
| Tail Fade button |
To add dissolves using the Head Fade button and the Tail Fade
button:
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Move the position indicator to a clip where you want the dissolve to
end or begin.
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For example, if you move the position indicator ten frames after the
beginning of the clip and then use the Head Fade button, the Avid
editing application creates a ten-frame dissolve that lasts from the
beginning of the clip to the location of the position indicator.
| 2. | |
Select the tracks on which you want to create dissolves.
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If you select more than one track, the editing application creates
dissolves of appropriate lengths for each track.
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Select Tools > Command Palette.
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| 4. | |
Click the FX tab, and then click Active Palette.
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| 5. | |
Click the Head Fade button or the Tail Fade button.
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The dissolves appear in the Timeline. If a dissolve begins or ends at the
edit point between two clips, the dissolve crosses between the two
clips. Otherwise the dissolve is a fade from or to black.
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(Option) If, for any selected track, there is insufficient source media to
create a dissolve of the length you specified with the position indicator,
a message box opens.
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Do one of the following:
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Click Size to Fit.
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The Avid editing application creates the longest dissolve possible.
For more information on sizing effects to fit available media, see
Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media.
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Click Skip Track.
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The Avid editing application does not create a dissolve on the track
with insufficient source material but does create dissolves on any
other selected tracks with sufficient source material.
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Click Cancel.
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The Avid editing application does not create any dissolves.
