audio fade - PLEASE HELP

Hi all,

I've been on an Avid for a while and now I'm back on FCP. I'm trying to get my skills and speed on FCP to what it is on Avid. I'm missing a few things that I'm hoping someone cane help me out with.

When I'm making an audio dissolve I want to START the dissolve at the end of one clip and go (let's say) 20 frames into the next clip. When I do that on FCP it appears to only allow me to do a cross dissolve with 10 frames on either side. I see that when I double-click I can change the duration, but not where the dissolve starts and ends. I can control it on a video dissolve. What gives?!? Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

By the by, I'm on FCP 6.0 on a G4 Powerbook.

If the dissolve is limited, it's probably because one side of the transition only has (in your case) 10 frames of audio before the clip ends.

John

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