I have struggled with how to approach setting proper levels of volume such that voiceover, music, and video clips are at appropriate levels throughout the project. I can't really figure out when gain has a benefit. I find that the voiceover seems to somewhat suppress the music, which I appreciate. But I always have to make numerous other adjustments.

But when I import music, I have to set it at 10 and my voiceover at 100. Likewise, my video clips often need to be set at 100. There are no other settings available to me to increase the mic, etc. In previous products I could adjust any audio to 200% or more without having to use an adjunct audio editor which takes so much time when you have like 100 clips to adjust in the project.

What strategies do experienced users of PD use for this?

Also, I noticed that when I break up a project into several parts for editing and then insert them into one for preparation for burning, all the audio levels of the inserted parts reset to "original" levels which destroys all the time and effort I put into in setting all these clips.

Exasperated once again.

Bill Seifert Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM