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  • Global clip level adjustment?

    Posted by Nick Ferrell on September 21, 2008 at 5:42 am

    I have a lot of bins of imported audio clips that need their levels dropped. Is there a way I can highlight all the clips in a bin and globally adjust their levels at once in the audio mix tool or am I stuck going through one clip at a time?

    Michael Hancock replied 17 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Michael Hancock

    September 21, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    One at a time, unfortunately. This has been requested quite a bit over the years–hopefully, one day, we’ll get it. Until then–load a clip, lower the level, load a clip, lower the levels, etc….

    Michael.

  • Terence Curren

    September 22, 2008 at 1:38 am

    I believe there is a way. You select them all in the bin and then a menu action is involved. Sorry, it’s been a long time, but I’ll look tomorrow.

    Terence Curren
    http://www.alphadogs.tv
    http://www.digitalservicestation.com
    Burbank,Ca

  • Nick Ferrell

    September 22, 2008 at 2:17 am

    Michael,

    Thanks. That’s kinda what I figured. Oh well. Looks like I’ll just resign myself to an hour or so of thoughtless robot work.

  • Nick Ferrell

    September 22, 2008 at 2:20 am

    Terrence,

    Really? I know you can do that for pan, but levels? I’m eager to hear what you discover. Thanks.

  • Sug Cain

    September 29, 2008 at 6:28 am

    If all of your clips are on the timeline, I believe you can mark in to out, set the level however you want; use the gang tool for all tracks or do each separately. Then, and this is from memory, go to the hamburger menu above the Audio tool and hit “set level for in to out”. It is somewhere in there, I will look at it in the a.m.

    Steve Cain

  • Michael Hancock

    September 29, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Yes, if you put all your clips in a timeline you can mark In and Out and choose to adjust levels between In and Out, or just clear your In and Out and choose to set levels on the track globally.

    The problem with this is that it doesn’t set the level on the source clip, which is what I understood the original poster wanted to do. You could always load all your clips into a timeline then load it into your source monitor and cut it from there, but it’s several hundred clips it will hard to navigate.

    Good suggestion though. You could always do that then subsequence each piece of audio.

    Michael.

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