Sound envelopes using the blue line sound adjustment . . .

[Jeff David]

Link does not work. I”m not sure how to get the screen shot in there.

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[Jeff David]

I found the text that I wrote. Still trying to get the screenshot in. Are you able to go to my profile and click files and get it? I left it public. Not sure if that’s how it works.

Here’s the text.

Here is my timeline with the voice soundtrack (top) and music soundtrack (bottom).

I hope this helps.

You asked how do I monitor my sound levels – uh I don’t. I guess based on your question – I should be doing that.

Will you please explain what I am supposed to be doing in that regard?

So far, what I have been doing – is simply recording the sound to a minidv tape and then capturing the recorded sound to my computer. I don’t set any sound levels when recording – I think the camcorder does that?

Then I just put the sound clips on my timeline.

I set the master bus slider in the upper, right-hand corner of Movie Studio so the slider is about 20% from the top of the slider measure. I know that the sound is not supposed to go into the red on that meter and I do check to make sure it’s not going into the red.

I set the volume control sliders on the left-hand side to 0.0 for both voice and music.

One thing I realized – is when I took the different audio music tracks that I am using (most of them from the Youtube, royalty free channel) and placed them on my timeline, I didn’t think to make the soundwaves match. Moving forward, I prob should do that – I assume. Hopefully, you can see in my screenshot of my sound that some of the music has wave lines that are higher and bigger than the others. You can see that I adjusted the sound levels up and down accordingly using the blue line sound level adjuster thingy.

I went in and tweaked everything and I am about to burn the movie to my drive again and I’m hoping the sound is all at the right level now.

ON the first burn, certain sections of the music was too overwhelmingly loud.

I thought it was odd that I had to bring the blue line down to almost the bottom to get the right sound level. Also – as previously mentioned, the sound seemed to only go down lower only by moving the blue sound level waaaayyyy down.

Smaller adjustments – I did not notice a significant lowering of the sound – until I moved the blue level line to almost the bottom.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!

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[Graham Bernard]

Jeff, you need to start over, and get a handle on tracking your audio signal flow from beginning to end. Without seeing your screen grabs I’m kinda groping through a foggy mist.

OK, when I say Monitor, I really do mean where do you actually hear and listen to the output on headphones or through Balanced loudspeakers. I just want you to hear what you’re doing.

* Grazie

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[Jeff David]

I listen to the sound on my computer laptop speakers – dual speakers.

Then after I burn the video – I watch it on my tv.

I don’t know why I can’t upload the image. It’s smaller then the allowed file size.

I tried some other formats besides Word but it still won’t upload.

The instructions do not specify what file type is required.

Do you know what file type the image has to be?

Lenovo quad core i7 16gb of ram, Windows 8.1 MS 13 64 bit Thumbnail is view out of the Olde North Church window where the signal lanterns were hung, as in, \”1 if by land 2 if by sea\” looking across the Charles River to the Charlestown Naval Yard where rebels awaited the signal April 18th, 1775.

[Jeff David]

I uploaded the screenshot of my timeline in my profile under, “files” and left it public.

Are you able to go to my profile, and click on the “file” link? IF so – you’ll see the screen shot.

Lenovo quad core i7 16gb of ram, Windows 8.1 MS 13 64 bit Thumbnail is view out of the Olde North Church window where the signal lanterns were hung, as in, \”1 if by land 2 if by sea\” looking across the Charles River to the Charlestown Naval Yard where rebels awaited the signal April 18th, 1775.

[Graham Bernard]

[Jeff David] “Are you able to go to my profile, and click on the “file” link? IF so – you’ll see the screen shot.”

No Timeline Screen Shot when I clicked on Files.

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Jeff

If I understood you correctly, track # 9 is your music, track # 8 is your voice over. What is track #10 ?

Let’s get back to basics. It is always preferable to start with clean, normalized and balanced sound.

Don’t forget that Vegas started out as an audio only editing software. It has a bunch of great tools at your finger tips.

There are different ways to approach it and this is mine.

(Providing that your recording is up to par…)

I render each clip, audio only, and save them separately.

Every clips where I will use the audio is first cleaned with the noise reduction feature in Audition (I am almost sure that there is the same feature in Audacity) If you do this afterwards, you will end up boosting your background noise and any other unwarranted sounds.

Next up for me is Levelator. It’s a great little (free) software that levels out your sound track. It’s not perfect but close.

I then match them back to the video.

Most important, as Graham B. mentioned, you have to be able to properly monitor your audio. It is highly recommended that you get yourself a more than decent pair of headphones and/or a pair of balanced speakers with a proper amplifier. Stay away from the cheap ones, they just won’t give you the full range.

Back in Vegas, you can play with the numerous audio features to make your tracks sound perfect for your feature.

Cheers !

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