Using Fade Shortcuts in Pro Tools

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Let's talk about how we can fade our audio up and down or fade our audio out. They're two basic ways. One way you can render the audio fade and the audio file itself, and that's just by highlighting over the end of a track here. Right now my son is running out the door and don't want to hear that particular audio so I think I'd like it to gradually fade out as the music goes along. So I'm highlighting over it. What I can do is that's where I want the fade to happen. I can go over file and actually I want to go over edit, go all the way down to fade. This is pretty cumbersome because I never do it this way. Then it says create fade, Apple F. You're better off just learning that key because you're going to use it a lot. If you do it that way, a fade window pops up and it gives you the ability to choose what kind of fade you want, how quickly you can actually adjust it right here. You can actually see the WAV form up there start to get larger and smaller which is kind of cool. Let's go ahead and click on Ok! Now we've built a fade. Let's do that faster! Command F, Fade, OK! Now let's undo that, let's go even faster. If we look at our edit tools up there, we have our different choices, if we click on this bar beneath it. It enables all of these tools. It becomes a fade, it comes a smart tool, now I can go ahead if I just bring my fader up, if I bring my mouse to a different part of the track it looks, it changes shapes. It does different things so if I have it here it becomes a trim tool, if I go over here it becomes the fade tool. Now I can create a fade being anywhere I want, real quickly by clicking and dragging. I like that fade, right where it is. Suppose I don't like where it is? I'll go ahead and go over and highlight my grabber tool, I can just move the fade. Is that awesome or what? I just grabbed the whole fade and moved it. That's really cool so, that's one way of making a fade in rendering it and moving it around too. Very powerful.

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