Cross Fade

Cross fading two audio clips is a powerful editing tool that allows you to blend two pieces of audio. You can choose how long the overlapping region is and what kind of volume curve to apply. Metro offers a virtually unlimited choice of shapes for your fade-out and fade-in volume curves:

  • Linear

  • Exponential 1

  • Exponential 2

  • CustomMet90000.gifyou can drag any shape you want

To cross fade two audio clips:

  1. In the Switches menu, make sure Show Audio Regions and Audio Region Editing are enabled.

  2. In the Graphic Editor window, display the two tracks that contain the two clips you want to cross fade.

  3. Select and copy clip 2 and paste it into the same track as clip 1, immediately following clip 1 but not touching it (if the two tracks touch, they will merge instead of cross fade).

  4. Turn off Audio Region Editing in the Switches menu and drag the ending boundary of clip 1 to the left by approximately the length you want the cross fade to last.

  5. Turn Audio Region Editing back on and drag the beginning of clip 2 into the cross fading region you just cleared.

  6. Turn Audio Region Editing off and select a region overlapping both clips that you want to cross fade.

  7. From the Edit menu, choose Audio > Cross Fade.

The Cross Fade dialog box appears.

  1. In the Drag Fade Out Type field, click the diagonal line and select a curve type from the three choices: linear, Exp.1, or Exp2. You can also drag the curve into any shape you want. This sets the fade out volume curve for clip 1. Click Reverse to flip a concave curve into a convex one, or vice versa.

  2. In the Drag Fade In Type field, repeat step 8 to set the fade in volume curve for clip 2.

  3. Click OK.

Now you can mute the other tracks and listen to your cross fade. If you don’t like the results, choose undo (Command-Z) and try again.

See Also:

Normalize

Group Normalize

Reverse

Scale Amplitude

Fade

Split Stereo Tracks

Combine Regions

Cross Fade