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Adjust the audio mix

Adjust the audio mix - Media Composer Tutorial

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Adjust the audio mix

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- [Teacher] Media Composer includes really advanced audio finishing tools, but you don't need to go right the way into them to apply some basic mix adjustments. And if we look on the timeline in the fast menu, we've got the option to enable to display of waveforms, well, we know that already, but also, to display clip gain and volume. There's also an option to allow or not allow per track settings, and that just means if you turn this off, any setting you apply in this menu is going to apply to all of the tracks at once. I don't need that for now, but I want to draw your attention to this little additional menu in the track controls. This actually gives me access to the same options, clip gain, volume, and I've got pan, where I can control the output, left or right, for my audio. We'll come back to pan later on, but for now, I'm going to turn on clip gain, and clip volume. Just notice when I turn the clip volume off, nothing changes, and I turn it on again, nothing. And that's because…

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