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How to affect audio level change from in to out or to entire track(channel)
After years of Avid editing, I still occasionally can’t figure out how to do some things in FCP (and the manual isn’t always particulary helpful, as you know)
For instance, I want to change the audio level of a section of track, not just one edit, mind you, but the entire channel, or better yet, the selection between the in and out.
When I go to the audio tool, regardless of my highlighted selection, the in and out points, or right clicking, every time I move the slider, only the clip on which the play head is resting is affected.
I don’t want to do this 300 times, and no editor should have to, ya?
What obvious thing am I overlooking here?
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Use the “Audio Mixer” under “Tools” to affect the master volume, but other than that you will probably need to nest the audio that you want to affect, then you can treat the nest as one whole clip. Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
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Thanks, Todd.
I did finally discover another way, and yah, it’s kinda wierd, but here’s how:
1) Adjust the audio level, pan, etc. on just one clip segment in the timeline.
2) Highlight that audio clip by selecting it in the timeline.
3) Copy that highlighted clip (command-C)
4) With the mouse, highlight all the clip segments in the timeline that you want to adjust to the same parameters.
5) Now, in the top menu bar, go to >Edit, >Paste Attributes.
6) A Dialoge box opens, check the appropriate boxes of the attributes (such as audio levels) you wish to copy onto the highlighted selection of clips in the timeline.
7) Click OK (or Apply, or Done, or whatever the button is labeled)
Perhaps there is a better way, but if so, I certainly can’t seem to find it.
Now, to me, this seven-step process is appaulingly more complicated than Avid’s more intuitive approach where you FIRST higlight or indicate the selection or track you wish to affect and then adjust the levels, etc.
While, overall, I like FCP better than Avid Express 4.6 running on Classic OS 9, it’s issues like this that continue to disappoint and reveal software development choices that were made by computer programmers rather than editors.
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select the clips (or for the whole track … use the track tool) and then go Modify>Levels (or press Cmd-Opt-L)
that brings up the Gain Adjust dialog, where you can adjust all the audio levels of the selected clips by a relative amount or to an absolute level as required.
an alternative is to select the clips then use Modify>Audio and choose the modifcation to apply from the submenu.hope it helps
Andy
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