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Creating Crossfades With Overlapping Fades
While a fade gradually fades a single track of audio up or down, a crossfade fades two overlapping clips at the same time, fading one clip up and another clip down, for the aural equivalent of a cross dissolve. There are currently two ways of creating a crossfade in the Fairlight page. Both depend on clip layering to allow you to have overlapping fades over overlapping clips.
1 Add a fade out to the end of one clip, and a fade in to the beginning of another clip. By default, all fades you add in this way are linear, although you can adjust them to whatever gain you want.
Adding fades to adjacent clips
2 Drag the first clip to overlap the second clip by the length of the fade you’ve created.
Dragging the clips to overlap, the overlapping parts will be preserved via clip layering
3 Drop the clip. The overlapping fades will both be preserved thanks to clip layering, and a crossfade will appear in the Timeline.
The resulting crossfade