REAPER 5 Explained - 8. Fades and Crossfades Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're going to take a look at
the fades and crossfades in Reaper as I
mentioned earlier to add a fade out when
you just go to the upper right corner
see the cursor changes and create a fade
just by dragging right here this is a
fade out and over here in the upper left
corner can be a fade in
and of course we could delete it just by
going to the left or to the right and to
disappear now by default this option is
turned on Auto crossfade and when it's
turned on and we trim from one item to
another as they overlap it creates a
crossfade which means this item is going
to fade out as this item fades in making
the transition so much smoother
now if auto course fade is not turned on
it's turned off over here
and we do the same thing the items are
going to overlap in other words we're
going to hear both of them at the same
time so I could get a bit messy so if
you don't want that behavior just go up
here under options and turn on trim
content behind media items when editing
when that's turned on
and we trim from one item to another
it's going to trim the second one in
other words the cuts off the end see
right here now it's cut off as you drag
it over
it actually trims it or makes it shorter
this way no two items will overlap let's
turn that off
let's turn auto cross fade back on which
we can do from the toolbar or from a
keystroke on the PC it's all Tex and on
the Mac it's option X just hit it an
order of course fake turns back on hit
it again and it turns it off let's put
it back on
now if we trim from one item to another
the course fades and we can adjust that
cross feed from the right side to make
it longer
or the left side but we can move it by
holding down shift see the cursor
changes we can move both sides together
so you adjust the crossfade to a
different spot while keeping its length
over here over here or over here
now as I also mentioned earlier we can
change the feed curves let's put this
back
to make a fade-out
and a fade-in now we can right click
over here and here the fade curves we
could use linear
and we'll get a linear fade-out curve
or any of these options including an
s-curve down here
and we can adjust it either by dragging
over here or over here
and the same with fade-in right-click it
change to linear
now we have a linear fade in and we can
adjust it here
for any of these options
just adhere or here
and again to get rid of it just drag it
over
and now they're gone and we can do the
same thing with course fades
so if we trim over here the
to crossfade and we could right-click it
see how the cursor changes right-click
it and we can choose any of these
crossfade curves Linea one
this one
or even this one
if we go down even further we can also
open the course fete editor
and that opens up this dialogue and from
here we could change a lot of parameters
like our shape
let's go back to this one we can change
our curve for the left side or the right
side
we can change our center
let's use a different curve
you change the center
which is the same thing as holding down
shift over here we can change the start
or the end
we could change the length makes it
bigger and smaller
the contents we actually move the
contents of our item
even the volume
so what we can do in this window but
most of the things we need to do we
could do right from here by simply
dragging around
we're changing our curve
and we could also create a cross feed
using time selection
let's delete this
put these next to each other
time suction over here
select it by double-clicking our track
and hitting the keystroke ex
that puts a crossfade based on a time
selection which again we could adjust
afterwards
now let's take a look at what happens
when we're punching in audio let's say
we're happy with this performance but we
want to punch in from bar 3 2 bar 4 so
we can select it from here to here
make sure
we're in time suction autopunch
and going to record to punch this
section
play from here go into a chord now it's
zoom in and see what the punches look
like
as you can see we automatically mix
course feeds at the punch points here's
the punch in
and here's the punch-out which makes the
punches sound smoother as this audio is
fading out this one fades in so any good
Ching will be reduced
and we can move them around by holding
shift key to fix our punch but having
those crossfades
happen automatically makes up punches
sound a lot smoother now if order
crossfade was turned off let's see what
happens there
what's undo this
or a crossfade and do the same punch
whoa zoom in
and this time it's not a crossfade this
audio fades out and this audio fades in
but there's a point in the middle where
it's totally silent
so try a fade out and fade in it's not a
crossfade like this so for the most part
you're going to want to leave Auto
crossfade turned on when you're punching
in to keep your punches sounding
smoother
now the crossfade sighs when you punch
in is based on this preference
if we go in the project to media item
defaults right over here is the option
to create automatic fade in and fade out
for new items so every time you create a
new item like when recording or even
splitting with zoom out and what's split
over here
the automatic makes a fade-out and a
fade in at that split and the size of
that fade in
is based on this which defaults to 10
milliseconds but we could change it
make it a hundred
and now if we split it
the fade-out and the fade in are 100
milliseconds long so we can adjust that
right in this preference but this
preference also works for puncheon's so
if we redo our earlier punch with this
at 200 milliseconds
this cross feed for the punch is now 100
milliseconds
if we put it back to our default
ten milliseconds
let's punch it again
now the cross feed and a punch is 10
milliseconds so we can adjust that right
over here
now down over here we can adjust the
default crossfade shape by default and
set to this but we could change it to be
in linear
and now if we punch it in
it's now a linear crossfade
or the punch-out same thing now it's
linear
which again we could change right from
here
faults to this curve and over here we
can adjust the default fade in and fade
out shape
by the 4th set here but if we want to
set it to an s-curve let's put it over
here
and over here as we zoom in the fade out
over here and the fade in over here an
OS curves
friends
right over here
and again the width for that is over
here now if we want to change our splits
to be a crossfade instead we can change
that here
lapin course fade items when splitting
and the width can be changed here so 2/4
to 10 milliseconds
so if we split
this piece over here
we now have a cross feed instead instead
of having a fade in and fade out
we get a crossfade because of this and
it's 10 milliseconds in length
so we could change this to 100
milliseconds
and now if we split
over here
it's going to crossfade and it's 100
milliseconds
shifted around like this
and that's set here but it's set to ten
milliseconds by default and it's turned
off so each time you create a new item
by splitting them we're just gonna get a
fade in and fade out
this
fade in and fade out
let's put the curves back to the default
there's a few actions I want to show you
the first action is for changing or
fading shapes
let's zoom in and right now this fading
shape is an s-curve let's say whether to
change or fade in shapes on this track
we can select them all by
double-clicking the track over here
our actions
and I'll show you more about actions in
a way to chapter but in the filter we
could type in fade
and here the actions that the afaid so
you can choose this one right here cycle
through fading shapes so if we hit run
the fading shape changed and all the
fading shapes on this track because it's
all selected we're all going to change
so if we go over here this one's changed
as well
let's select them again and hit this
again
and we can cycle through
we find the shape we prefer
let's go with that one let me do the
same thing with fade-out
right here cycle through it and a
fade-out shape changes
let's go with this one so it's a great
way of changing while the fade in and
fade out shapes all at once
now there's another fade action I want
to show you and that's fade items into
cursor or fade items out from cursor let
me show you that one
let's say we want to fade to the spot
here
but we don't want to have to do it this
way go over here and drag it let's say
it's too far let's say we're only over
here and there's no way of grabbing it
we could just click right here
and choose this action fade items into
cursor hit run
and it fades all the way to there
let me do the same thing on the other
side let's say well all the way over
here we want to fade from here to the
end but we don't want to have to go back
over here to find it we could just click
here
go to this action fade items out from
cursor hit run
and now fades out from here
to the end of the item then we can
adjust it
so those are just a few actions that
affect fades so anyway that's fades and
cross fades in Reaper let's move on
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