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SonyNateM wrote on 9/20/2001, 8:40 AM
Is the fader you are speaking of the one in the Mixer in VideoFactory? That control most certainly does effect the output level of the audio in your project. It applies gain to the final mixed down audio from the project. You should use the volume either in the Windows mixer for your sound card, or the volumes on your speakers or mixer to adjust your listening level while editing.

Hope this helps.
yirm wrote on 9/20/2001, 11:34 AM
It's title is Audio. It is the lower, middle pane in the VF window.

Your answer is a little distressing. It seems that this fader is always set about two thirds to the top, independent of whatever volume levels individual events may have. All I want the master output volume to be is exactly what it was on input. If I just leave it alone will I achieve these results?

-Jeremy
yirm wrote on 9/20/2001, 11:49 AM
I'm not sure I'm explaining myself well.

My thoughts are that if I'm bringing in DV, the levels are what they are. The camera will have already clipped or limited volumes that are too high (not sure exactly how my camera handles this, though I'd love to know).

This being the case, I never want to add more volume to the entire project for fear of introducing clipping. I am hoping that if I don't touch the slider at all, it should (hopefully) give me the same exact output. Is that true?

My other concern is that I'm not an unsophisticated user, but I'm now in the position of having to go back and re-edit two tapes because I might have adjusted that slider. It's too easy to screw up the audio.

The correct way to adjust audio (it seems to me), is to use an audio editor to normalize the volume portions of these individual clips. No?

Okay, it occurs to me that if you add additional audio tracks (music, sfx), you may want to reduce the entire gain because combined, they may cause clipping where the video's signal alone may not. But I still don't see how using that fader to add gain to the output would be a good practice.

Anyway, the immediate question I need answered, is if I completely ignore that fader (keep it at it's default position), will the video's audio stream be untouched?

-Jeremy
SonyEPM wrote on 9/20/2001, 12:04 PM
If you keep everything (event audio faders, normailize, master out etc) untouched, DV audio will be untouched.
yirm wrote on 9/21/2001, 4:46 PM
Thanks, once again.

-Jeremy