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Audio question about levels and opening clip in timeline.
I have some footage with 4 audio channels. I only need one. In lieu of breaking apart clips on the timeline, I’ve been working with “opening the clips in timeline” from either the event or the project to adjust the channels or perhaps levels there.
For example, I’ll drop a clip on the timeline. Then right click that clip and “open in timeline.” From there I can delete the 3 channels I don’t want. I go back to the main timeline and the 3 channels don’t show up in the inspector anymore. Very clean. Disabling can also be done, but it’s the same result as unchecking the channels in the inspector.
In either case, when I’m in in a clips own little timeline, I I raise the one audio channel (other 3 are off or deleted) to +12, the waveform shows little bits of red, and it does infact go over 0 and clips/distorts. If I set that back to default 0 and go back to the main timeline and instead raise the volume to +12 I get the same waveform increase with little bits of red at the top. Indicating I’m going to clip. I love potentially working with audio this way. HOWEVER, it doesn’t reach 0 db or clip or distort on playback. More like -4 db max. So in this case I can’t figure out why the volume isn’t as loud as +12 when stepped into it’s own timeline. It’s the only audio and it’s set to normal, mono, or default in the inspector. All same result.
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Bret,
If you know you’re only going to want to use the one track, can I ask why you’re not just disabling the other tracks up in the Event Browser level?
Seems to me after that, your clips would come into the Project pretty much ready to go.
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