Varying audio levels

grovesey wrote on 3/5/2005, 1:55 PM
Am I to believe that - other than fades in and out - you can't varying the sound levels within the sound tracks on Vegas Studio?

I've had a lot of experience with sound editing, and there's a snapshot of the Vegas timeline in the pdf manual showing audio level "handles" within the sound track. How do you acces this feature?

grovesey.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/5/2005, 2:06 PM
Click on the audio track and type V for volume envelope, or find the envelope under the Insert menu.
grovesey wrote on 3/5/2005, 3:14 PM
Thanks, but surely that only chages the overall level of the whole track? How do you vary the level up and down throughout the track?
grovesey wrote on 3/5/2005, 3:21 PM
Aha! Just found what I wanted by playing around with SHIFT and drag within a highlighted area of the sound track. Thanks for at least confirming that the facility was available!

Now, where in the manual/help does it tell you all this?
Chienworks wrote on 3/5/2005, 4:29 PM
You can add control points to the volume envelope by double-clicking on the line. Add as many points as you need and drag them up and down to adjust the volume from point to point along the track.
grovesey wrote on 3/6/2005, 1:16 AM
Can't quite see that Chienworks, but I did discover another thing. I didn't know that if you hold the control button down and drag the loudspeaker symbol back and forth, you can use a "sound scrub" feature.
t-keats wrote on 3/6/2005, 1:20 PM
There are several ways to vary audio levels. Here's a way it can be done on a clip by clip.
RAISE LEVEL-
If you want to raise the audio level of a section of track, right click on properties on the audio track. Check the box that says normalize and it will raise the section of track you clicked on to a full, normal level. Click okay and watch it take effect.
DROP LEVEL-
Use the mouse. Point to the top line of the audio track you want to lower and pull it down. The screen will show how many db's you are dropping the level by.

BTW, I have found that the manual is not complete in every detail, feature and function.
Superman wrote on 3/7/2005, 9:15 AM
What he means is the manual really sucks. I've learned way more on this forum that ever reading the manual cover to cover.

If you have a question...look here first!