Gkowalski,
Another way to do this is to put your cursor on the top of the clip audio line, click and drag down. You will see a blue line appear and line up with how far you drag. This reduces that whole clip's audio level. It only applies to that clip however. If you want to reduce the whole time line's audio level (on one track), go to the front of the line and reduce the dbs (decibles). I've found this easier than using the audio envelopes but that's because I haven't figured out how to use the envelopes yet. Hope this helps.

As stated, there are two ways...

The top part of a sound clip has some neat features, one is the pull-down level that stewart002 mentioned, and the other is if you place your mouse at the ends of the clip, the cursor will change to show that if you clip and drag from the edge to the inside of the clip, a fade in/out will show up as part of the sound level line (thin blue)

The other part is the envelope (there are two, a volume and a pan). To make these appear you need to click the 'node edit' icon at the top toolbar, then right click and use the pop-up menu to have the evelope appear. Once the envelope line appears, you can right click on the envelope to 'Add a node', then drag that node to adjust the volume level.

The pan envelope works the same, except it effects the 'side' of the stereo it appears to come from... For instance if you wanted the sound to move from the left speaker to the right speaker, you could add a two nodes, and then have one at the top (or left side) and then drag the other to the bottom (or right side). The effect will be the sound will start at the left then as the video plays it will move to the right.

It can also be used to make a 'pseudo' stereo... My video source is an analog mono cam corder... so by default, all my audio comes out of the left side. By adding the pan envelope, and moving it down I can create a stereo effect, where there is sound from both sides.

hope that helps.

Peace.

Thanks a lot!

Jrsrueve

Glad you liked me posting on the experiments I did for creating "Pseudo Stereo". The other neat thing is that if you are selective about what sequences of sound you want to appear "Left" and "right" you can have audio bouncing around the room!

Glad to be of help,

Grazie

Grazie...

I've learned a lot of tricks reading your posts... KEEP POSTING...

I just captured different video from two different mono cam-corders (why I didn't just swap tapes, don't ask me.. :)) and when I did, I swapped the mono input from left to right... Using the pan envelope, I just swapped the envelope from one side to the other, and you can't notice a thing in the end result...

I suppose the envelope would be good for doing psedo foley work to have someone walk across the room, and have the sound walk with them...

Peace.