• Apple Motion

  Scrub Audio Volume Ignores Individual Levels

  Posted by Scot Walker on June 17, 2005 at 8:43 pm

  Hey everyone,

  I’m doing a 3 minute animation of a talking courier bag and I’m doing it in Motion. I have two audio tracks, one VO and one music. I have the music volume turned down a bit and the VO volume up a bit. When I scrub the timeline, they both scrub at their full volume, which causes the music to get too loud and I can’t hear the VO.

  I know I can mute the music, etc., but I was just wondering if there was an option that I can’t find to have it scrub at the volume it’s actually set at versus it’s native volume?

  Motion 2
  OS X 10.4.1

  Thanks!

  Scot Walker replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  June 18, 2005 at 8:36 pm

  I’d highly recommend mixing your audio down *before* bringing it into Motion. This is a motion graphics program so audio is a very, very low priority. Kinda like After Effects- which in its default settings doesn’t even export the comp with audio.

  Noah
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  Scot Walker

  June 18, 2005 at 10:56 pm

  Yeah, I know. However, want to raise and lower the volume of the music at certain points of my animation.

  This isn’t a huge deal. I just muted the music. I’m animating to the VO, as usual. Thanks, though.

  I actually have done an entire 3-minute production with Motion 1 and I had no problems with the audio. What I may do now is use Soundtrack Pro to do the music after animating to the VO. I have to learn it first! 🙂

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