Sony Vegas Movie 8 Platinum: Audio question

[Maximoo]

Hi! ::waves:::

I've got Sony Vegas 8 Platinum. I've found it really easy to use and have made a little movie quite quickly. Trouble is, a lot is intuitive but then you start needing to know more difficult things! ...which might be quite simply answered...hopefully...

Sooo...I've got a movie, with lots of different tracks with audio on them. My question is: how do I give different audio clips different sound values? For example, I've got a very quiet section that I want to boost up, or people might turn up the sound and get their ears blown off during a louder section...see what I mean? lol

I have looked around for the answer to this, but I can't find it anywhere. Can anyone help?

...and would it be ok if I popped back here with any other questions I have on Vegas at some point?

Thanks! xx

Maxiemooooo

[Soopafresh]

You want to apply Normalization and Dynamic Range Compression to the audio. That'll make the sound volume levels almost the same.

[Maximoo]

Thank you for the kind reply Soopa, but I don't want the audio all the same. I need some audio tracks to be louder than others, so one or another is dominant at a moment in time. However, that 'normalization' is a cool thing to discover (tried it now) and might come in handy another time.

I think (from reading this forum) that want I need to look into is audio envelopes. Currently reading the Audio Forum to see what I can find.

Edited to add: This is probably a typical n00b mistake of mine. Perhaps I should have put my 'dominant' audio tracks onto a separate track in the first place - then I could just alter the loudness of the whole track, not individual little audio clips. :igh:::

xx

[poisondeathray]

Do you mean different channels or tracks? i.e. for a 5.1 track you might have ambient noise in 1 channel, speech in 1 channel, background music in 1 channel, but they are all in 1 track

I'm not sure how you would do this in Vegas Movie Studio, but one way you could do this is use an audio editor to adjust each channel, or sections of each channel.

[Maximoo]

Thanks Poisondeathray. x

I mean (sorry I haven't been clear) that I have sections of audio along different tracks, so that it overlaps as I want the original audio (that goes with the video), music, and also birdsong all together. However, sometimes I want the music stronger, and sometimes the birdsong.

Confused? lol I hope that made sense. What I feel like I need to do is isolate different audio clips and be able to alter their loudness.

Edit: Not sure I've answered your question actually. Erm...I think I'll have to go away and think about this, because I'm not sure what a channel is! (I know what a track is though!)

I must seem like such an idiot! Sorry!