Audio movement

I am doing some audio work which in theory is simple but I don't know how to do it in FCP. I just want to know how to fade in and out between sound clips. I know how to do audio dissolve between two cuts but I need to get more out of the audio in FCP. Basically fading down one clip and fading up to another. I also know how to adjust the overall level of a clip but I want to have two clips on top of each other and move up and down with the level between them. I can't seem to get a good explanation in the manual. Don't mean to clog up this forum with what I guess is a beginner tool.
Brian

You need to use Keyframes.
http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=67%2 6section=1%26tasks=true

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I have read the support file on cutting and copying audio tracks in Quicktime Pro Windows v7.6.8 at http://helpqt.apple.com/qthelpwr3/english/QuickTimeHelp/pgs2/qtFmSet4.htm , however, it does not tell how to refine the location you choose to cut or copy. In a 1 hour audio movie, each slight move of the selection markers is 18 seconds. I need to cut at a location within one of those 18 second segments.
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Is there a way to get the good old preview icon from Tiger in Snow Leopard? The one with the slider when previewing audio and movie files.
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It's just I haven't seen many "success" stories of an upgrade to snow leopard from Tiger... with working iLife 10.4 apps.
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[Below is copied and pasted from the other thread. As it's still the same problem, I'd like to keep it all here.]
animatedlies wrote:
I've installed Quicktime since then, but the .mov files are only playing audio in Quicktime and not the video. They play both audio/video in VLC player.
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My purpose is to import sound, and because PS Ext does not support sound files as such, I found a workaround in the internet to import a mov file. But it does not work for me..

Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
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Sometimes when an application is not working properly its preference files have become corrupted. It is nothing that you cause, it is just the nature of preference files.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-EfficiencyAdvanced_AudioCoding
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The sound on imovie is a complete joke, the skimming breaks down constantly and it arbritarily puts all the sound into one channel for any clip in the project where I try to do even the most basic sound editing or cross fading.
Has anyone else encountered or hopefully fixed this bug?
ilife is a toy for amateurs it seems, I've had similarly shambolic experiences with Garageband recently. What started as a nice simple 3 minute film has turned into a nightmare because of ridiculous glitches which take hours to work around or replace!
Rant over, problems however continue.. advice or solidarity appreciated..!

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I agree with Ingo, first go through the ASCII DataPlugin Wizard in DIAdem 10.0 or later to generate a DataPlugin which will automatically load one of your ASCII files. Then I would recommend using a VBScript that either concatenates data already loaded from multiple files into separate Groups in the Data Portal, or using a VBScript that additionally pops up a multi-select file dialog to automate both the selection and concatenation.
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Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments
P.S. You will need to edit lines 17 and 18 in the script "Importing Data From Multiple DataPlugin Files.VBS" and replace the existing file extension and DataPlugin name with ones that fit your data files.
Attachments:
Importing Data from Multiple DataPlugin Files.zip ‏198 KB

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