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Adjusting clip volume in preview monitor?
I’m curious if it is possible to adjust a clip’s volume in when you load it into the preview monitor, or a universal way to adjust all clips so that when I load them in to the preview window (not sure if that’s the correct Avid lingo, basically the left window in the Composer), I don’t get blasted out of my chair from loud audio. Having to quickly reach for the volume knob on the sound board every time just to preview a clip is breaking my editing juju.
Thanks,
Craig
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Load the clip into your Source Monitor (Avid lingo for the one on the left), then open your Audio Mix tool and adjust the level there. This will apply that level to the source clip so you won’t have to adjust it everytime you cut it into your timeline. You can also adjust the pan.
If you’ve already cut your audio into your sequence and want to adjust the level there, open your Audio Mix tool again (if you closed it). Then you have these choices:
1) Park your playhead on the clip you want to adjust and adjust the level in the mixer tool. This will adjust only the clip you’re playhead is on.
2) Mark an In and Out around the clip/clips you want to adjust the level/pan, then highlight the corresponding Audio tracks in the Mixer Tool–for example, you want the clips between your In and Out on A1 panned left and the level brought up and the clips on A2 panned right and the level brought down. Click the A1 and A2 buttons in your mixer, set the pan and levels, then go to the hamburger menu of your Audio Mixer and select “Set Level on Tracks – In/Out” and “Set Pan on Tracks – In/Out”. This set the level and pan for all clips between your In and Outs according to what you set in your mixer.
3) Repeat step 2, but instead of marking and In and Out just select the tracks you want to adjust, set level and pan, then go to the hamburger menu in your Audio Mixer and select “Set Level on Tracks – Global” and “Set Pan on Tracks – Global”. This will adjust every clip on the tracks you selected according to the levels and pan you set in the mixer tool.
Unfortunately there’s no way to adjust the level/pan of a track while it’s in the bin, or to set the level/pan of several tracks at once unless they’re in a sequence. Hopefully Avid will give us this ability–it’s been asked for, but it hasn’t come to light (yet). I hope it does.
Michael.
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Thanks! I kinda feel like an idiot for never trying that – I just assumed all along that the Audio Mixer was for clips in the timeline only.
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Easy to overlook it. I think I was editing for a year and cursing the volume before I accidentally lowered some levels with the source monitor active instead of the record monitor. Happy accident!!
Michael.
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