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adjusting Volume envelope becomes a pain…
When you get down below -20dB or so.
If you are editing a project and have some background music that really needs to be lowered to around -28dB or so, it becomes really hard to grab the volume line because it’s so low in the track. It becomes obscured with the bottom of the track, and the slightest move takes the volume down to nothing.
I know you can click on a keyframe and enter in a dB level to jump to, but that seem like more steps than you should have to do.
Does anyone have a way to bring that line up in the track without bringing up the volume – to have better control at low volumes?
I’ve edited in FCP, Premiere Pro, Avid, Media 100, etc; and I really dig Vegas – but this is one thing that drives me nuts.
Thanks for any advice.
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5 Replies
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Make the track larger?
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor -
Hold down Ctrl key while dragging envelope.
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Holding the CTRL Key works great for fine-tuning, but it won’t help re-grab the envelope when it’s down in the weeds. I wish it did. I don’t find this a big pain, because I either draw my envelopes with a mixer, or else I use Shift to draw, but they are kinda hard to grasp when they’re down in the very low parts of the track.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor -
Thank you all for your ideas. It turns out that Gilles idea of using the CTRL key works best for me. It allows me to make that fine adjustment between -23dB and -infinity.
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John ~
If you have a host of volume envelope nodes that you want to adjust to a fine degree you can do the following:
On the audio track header click on the ‘Automation Settings’ button. It looks like a small spoked bulls-eye. Select ‘Show automation controls’. Also make sure ‘Automation write (touch)’ is selected. Now you can click directly on any one of the nodes on the volume envelope in that track and you can adjust that node precisely down to around -60dB with the volume slider button in the track header. Making the track header longer by dragging it out makes adjustment even easier! Or if you want you can type in a dB value by double clicking on the dB number to the left of the volume slider. Just make sure you click right on a node before you adjust. Conversely you can position your cursor anywhere along a volume envelope and the second you move the volume slider it will insert a volume node. Either way when you are finished just uncheck ‘Show automation controls’ under the automation settings button.Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
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