Can global clip fades with CS6 be set to linear as default? How?

Also asked Adobe support about this.  I'd like fades to default to linear unless we override them to cosine. But the program seems determined to set them to cosine and force you to override those clip by clip to linear- just the opposite of my pref for many projects. 

To demonstrate this, I had a long WAV file (actually from an image of an entire CD) and was splitting it up into individual clips for a re-version job. 
Then I wanted to do fades in and out of each clip using linear ramping (the same way you could in AA3 and also CS5.5). But it always defaulted to cosine, so then I had to click the fade marker icon on each clip and change it.

I tried it with another long WAV file and this time first tried to set the fades using the CLIP pull down. If you set fade in or fade out that way though, you then have applied a very long ramp to the file which you then have to remove.  In theory though the fade defaults for that "clip" (actually the whole long file) would now be set though. 

But nope. When I did that and started splitting up the 2nd big WAV file (in theory now set for linear) and doing fade outs at the end of the clips I'd split from that file , it again applied cosine fades and I had to follow same re-select procedure to re-set them to linear case by case.  All told , an extra step that in this case was wasted time. (I have several hundred to make up this way for this particular re-version from numerous CDs )

Am I missing something -- maybe there is another pref file in "docs and settings" that must be set to make the fades default to linear unless user overrides them?  There seemed to be nothing in AA's Preferences/multitrack to set anything regarding this. 

After a while, I closed CS6 and used CS5.5 (which doesn't have the cosine option) to do all the fade ins/outs. It was driving me nuts to define the ramp, have it go into cosine, and then have to change it each time, when I just wanted linear.  When they are all done, I'll bring the sesx file back into CS6 to do some grouping and other things you can't do with CS5.5-- but this fade ramp situation surprised me.

 Perhaps I'm just missing something though, but with the state of the help file in CS6 being currently not exactly helpful, figured I ought to ask!

The default fade type is set on the first page (general) of the preferences.

Paul

Perhaps I'm just missing something though, but with the state of the help file in CS6 being currently not exactly helpful, figured I ought to ask!

Apparently there is to be an improved (hopefully) pdf for downloading in June, according to the developers.

Thanks Paul (and Steve too).  I had previous checked that and it showed as Linear/Log selected  on first page of prefs. 
However despite that AA6 is still assigning cosine fades here(in m/track view)  under the scenario described in the original post. 

I just checked it all again this morning before opening any project or files, and indeed the result defaults to "S curves" (cosine),
even though linear/log is selected on 1st page of the prefs. (and shows as such even with no project nor file open)

Thus, of course, on opening a SESX, still get same behavior- cosine (S curve) is produced by default when
you split any clips into new ones and then wish to fade in/out of the split clips in multitrack mode.

Notably, in EDIT view however, the selected default (linear/log for me) DOES work correctly. But not
in multitrack view (which is more often when we use fade ins/outs here)

So, maybe it's some kind of bug - we'll see if Adobe Support gets back on this one I guess. Seems like something they may
need to look into.

Btw this can be replicated over and over again so it def seems to be a bug as far as the multitrack fades go.
Even if your prefs are set to LINEAR, you will get S curve (cosine) for m/track fade ins/outs - at least on the one system we set up CS 6 on.

Try it yourself.  Open CS6 and go to prefs and be sure LINEAR is selected.
Set up a multitrack session and put any WAV file in it.  Then split that file into more clips and attempt to do fade ins/outs on them.
(NOT crossfades, just fade ins and outs on the individual clips which are not overlapped etc)
You will get S-curve (cosine) fades even though they are not what your prefs indicate you want.
(unless your system is MUCH diff than ours!)


Bring a clip into Edit View though and THOSE will work correctly and follow your prefs setting.

I hope Adobe will look into this and resolve it.