Chris, You need to select from anywhere other than the very beginning of the region. Start some fraction of a second into the clip and then you have two choices: either use Option-g to do a linear fade to the next region boundary or select to the end of the clip and bring up the fades dialog with Command-f. In the fades dialog, press Control-left arrow several times then press Control-right arrow twice. You'll be on a fade out preset that should work for you.
The only reason why this wouldn't work in this case is if you have pasted the vocals on top of other files that overlap the clips you pasted. In other words, if you pasted something over which there is an underlying clip extending beyond the boundary of the pasted clip, you'll be in a situation where the normal fade dialog won't work the way you need it to work. Instead, Pro Tools will assume you want to do crossfades. Anyway, this could potentially be a much bigger subject if that's the case. Hopefully, what I mentioned at the outset will suffice. Slau On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I think I may actually know what step in this I missed, but let me tell > you all what I'm trying to do, and how I'm doing it. I'm obviously doing > something wrong, as it's not seeming to work. > > Basically, here's the deal. I've got a session with 3 backing oos vocal > tracks. At the very end of the song when I hit the last final chord to end > the song, those oos come in to complement the final chord. Just to give it a > little warmth, and a little bit of feeling/depth/color. The problem is, I > comffed those vocals from a previous location in the song, as they're > identically the same. I figured, why redo them, if I could just copy/paste. > So, I got them pasted, and they're smack dead perfect! on the time ruler > where I need them. The only problem is, with the way things worked, they > kind of cut off coldly. There's no long decay. For this reason, it sounds > dreadfully horrible and very unnatural when they break off. > > So, what I'm trhying to therefore do is select those oos that I pasted there > on that last chord, and basically have them very linniarly fade out. No, > Slau, I don't have a control surface. I know, I know, I know, I know. Don't > shoot me dead! LOL! > > Anyway, so what I did was, in my track list table, I selected all 3 of the > backing tracks with VO+Space to toggle them all on as selected. > > In my edit window, I made sure that the selecter tool was activated, which it > definitely is. > > Being that these oos come in over the last 2 bars of the song, I pressed > option+Return to go to the end of the session. I then used numpad 1 two > times to back up 2 bars. When I hit space bar then to play, it's perfect! > That's dead smack on the beginning of the oos. I then hit > option+Shift+return to select from there to the end of the session. > > Now, I'm pressing command+F for fade. This is where I'm now getting stuck. > I've played with all the different shapes, although there are quite a few > shape clusters in here, so maybe I'm doing it with the wrong one, but I hit > the toggle preset button, and then definitely see the librarian menu, and all > the other parameters. NO matter which shape though I pick for the fade, it's > not working. > > Basically, I'm just trying to get those oos to fade down without it fading > down any of my other tracks in the session. This way, even though they cut > off coldly, by the time they do, they'll be either totally faded out, or will > be so close to out, that it'll not really matter, and will sound a little > more natural. > > Yeah, I could probably just not comph those final oos, and just sing them > manually, so that they're more natural, but I figure why, if I already have a > perfect cut of 'em? > > If I had to guess, if you tried challenging me saying, Chris, you tell me, > what do you! think you did wrong, what I'd guess is, do I need to first go to > the beginning of those oos, and do a command+E to split them off into their > own clip, then select that clip with the shift+Tab, then? fade? > > If not, then help me out, as I'm clueless. LOL! > > Sorry if I said already, but this is PT12.3. > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
