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How to adjust audio in Source Monitor
Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I am new to PPRo after using FCP for years. I love the program and have figured out how to do most things as compared to FCP.
If I double-click a clip from the Project panel to the Source monitor and the audio is recorded low, how can I adjust the level up to hear it better? I know I can just turn up the volume on the speakers but then I have to turn it down again when I play the timeline. The audio mixer in the Source monitor seems to only adjust what is on the timeline.
Thanks, Martin
PProCS5 on iMac i7
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So that’s a good solution for adding gain to the audio in your clip… but is there a way to actually monitor the levels of footage in your source monitor?
How am I supposed to know how much gain to add without knowing what the current levels are?? I have to guess, then check and adjust in the sequence.
Being able to monitor levels and even add gain/compression effects to clips before I even edit A roll was nice in FCP. I can get used to adding compression on a whole track in Premiere (super-sweet), but the inability to monitor audio in the source monitor seems like a significant oversight (that I can deal with until it gets fixed).
I would love to know I’m wrong and just missing how to do it
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I agree with Mr. Lopez. It would be nice to have some/more control of a clips audio in the source viewer. For instance… how do I set a BARS AND TONE clip to be -20db, or say -12db?? Unless I’m missing something I don’t see a way to EXACTLY set these levels? Even when the clip is in the timeline/sequence. When I’m trying to set to -20db, I’m sort of guessing by looking at my meters. When I used FCP, I would just load the clip into the source viewer, click on the mixer and hit -20. Boom.. done. Drag that down into my timeline/sequence and I had a -20db tone. I miss that….
With that i mind…. I also wish there was a way to toggle the mixer to not only adjust TRACK volume… but CLIP volume as well. When trying to adjust volume to a clip in the timeline/sequence… it would be great to have more precise control that just trying to adjust a little yellow line up and down with your mouse….
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This functionality is here 🙂
There are quite a lot of controls regarding audio…
Cheers JB
Jon Barrie
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Thanks for the great info!!
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I am not sure that the question was answered in a proper way. Sure there are lots of tools to use but how can I look at my levels and add key frames in the Source Monitor? Since the audio default is stereo (god knows why unless you use the on camera mic from your home video camera) making global audio changes as Mr Barrie suggest is a bad habit to get into.
FCP used to let you do this simple task. Do you have to export to Audition?
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[ and ], shift+[ and shift +] will adjust the clip volume down and up in the source panel/monitor and the “Audio Meters” shows the levels but I don’t see how you can add keyframes or alter left and right/2 mono tracks in the source panel as in FCP or Avid…
Any thoughts would be awesome – it doesn’t seem right that I should have to say, duck camera audio on A1 every time I want to use an interview clip with LAV on A2 (type thing).
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Call up the Audio Clip Mixer, as oppose to the Track Mixer, and as long as you were active on the source last then you can make the gain adjustment. If not, the timeline where the priority goes to the playhead. I believe the Audio Track Mixer handles only timeline audio, not the source.
It’s also worth noting that while you press [ or ] you can hear the adjustments in real time. Very cool feature that I haven’t seen in Avid or FCP.
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