player side audio adjust

[asperante]

told ya i would be back :)

is there a way to adjust the audio on the player side before it gets to the timeline? i do this alot in avid and aurora - primarily to adjust ch2 audio down to a background lvl and/or ch1 audio to a higher or lower lvl across the board.

for the life of me i can not find a way to do this in edius - please point me to the right direction :)

thanks again - hopefully i will get past the easy questions soon and start with some harder ones soon!

[antonsvideo]

the avid way makes a slow workflow

where with the Edius way, you can do all clips in one hit when they are on the timeline

which version Edius do you have? the normalize tool may come in handy if you have Edius5 or later

in any case, add a clip to timeline, place the panpot balance filter, increase left level and reduce right level, now set both pan pots to middle position, then save as user preset

from now on, select any or all clips on timeline and drag your panpot preset, done

[pjsssss]

Just to add to Anton's excellent tips, no you cannot adjust before placing on the timeline.

[John Hooper]

Anton,

Where do I find the panpot balance filter? I can't see it in the effects list.

I have been using the rubber band which I find a bit fiddly.

Have you found a 3rd party VST effect?

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[John Hooper]

Thank you. I didn't know it was there!!

I hadn't expanded the "tree", and only could see the VST plugins.

Yet another thing not in the manual. I looked under panning, and there was no reference to a filter for it.

I am still learning, but I have been struggling with the rubber band method which is a slow method I think.

[asperante]

thanks for the replies -- i will try that. not sure why you think that is a slower work flow? i find it very easy to preset my ch2 audio to -20db and make sure that my audio from multiple camera mics are the same on ch1 before the timeline (grab all sots from each camera at the same time) rather than putting all on the timeline and fiddling with each sot to make them all the same level.

i have been using normalize and the rubberband tool in conjunction with each other but that is time consuming... also i have had luck with the audio adjust tool setting all of track 2 two one level for background sound, however it gets messed up if there is a nat hit on ch2...

so if i read these replies right my best bet is to use normalize, multiple pan pot pre-saves, and rubberbands in conjunction with each other to make all volume levels conform with each other.... Thanks again.

[antonsvideo]

here is what I do

after placing all required clips on timeline, I inspect the waveform, if there is any sudden loud noises like a door slam etc (easy to see when viewing linear waveform, don't use log waveform), I make a cut before and after, this way it won't effect the normalize

you can drop the normalize on all selected clips in one hit, however, normalize will not work on clips shorter than 8 frames, so you need to use the rubber band on such a clip

the panpot filter is handy if you want to keeps some sound from the camera microphone

and here is what I do when I need more precise results

export entire voice audio track only to a wav file, open in Soiundforge 10, apply normalize with RMS set to -13db, this will prevent clipping of peaks, then I apply the wavehammer to limit output to -6db, perfect, place it back in Edius in an empty audio track and mute the existing audio