Audio track too low

ManuelG

Newbie Joined: Feb 22, 2013 23:39 Messages: 5 Offline

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Feb 23, 2013 00:04

Ill just go straight to an example since its hard to explain otherwise.

So I have the movie spiderman and I want to put it to music, with voiceovers from the movie in the background. Ive made a lot of videos like this using powerdirector 10. My problem is now, the audio tracks are way lower then the music track. In version 10, I would take the audio from the spiderman clip and copy and paste it, placing the copies of the audio under one another on different tracks, so that its louder, but not louder than the actual song I have playing on the music track. This was done smoothly and I got use to it.

However, now with version 11, when I try to copy and paste the audio from the spiderman clip, it copies, but when I place it under the orginal one, the audio does not get louder. It simply stays the same, as if theres only one of the audio clips. This is annoying and I can no longer use voiceovers in my video because its too low for the music.

I dont want to turn the music down because then that ends up being too low. I also tried boosting the audio in wave editor/ audio director, and that works but its very time consuming having to switch between the programs for EACH voiceover. Please help, I want to know if its just my program that doesnt properly fufill the copy/paste functions. Hope I made it easy enough to understand. Manuel

bolda

Member Location: Liberec, Czech Republic Joined: Feb 02, 2011 15:10 Messages: 96 Offline

Feb 23, 2013 07:18

Hi Manuel,

Have you been to the Audio Mixing Room (on pressing the F9 key on the computer keyboard while in PowerDirector's Edit mode)? You don't mention it.

If, however, the voice audio is much too low as compared with the music, I'm afraid you can't but "amplify" it in an audio editor. (Going to WaveEditor from within PowerDirector may be a tedious way. I myself prefer using a separate program, such as free Audacity.) You could first put all your audio clips concerned in their places desired on the timeline in the video editor, then produce the audio only or produce the video and extract the audio afterwards; simply to get one audio file for the entire voice over with the correct timing and thus one continuous audio track which you can modify all at a time. "Normalize" should be the feature you need in an audio editor but you may need to change the level manually either in an audio editor or subsequently in PowerDirector using the Audio Mixing Room. There are some other ways to skin this cat for sure.

Actually, there is the "Normalize" button for each audio track in the Audio Mixing Room in PowerDirector. It basically puts the highest amplitude in the audio clip you apply it to to the "normal" level by offsetting the amplitude throughout the clip. In other words, it is not "smart" to amplify low parts and damp high parts in the same clip. If someone knew of a smart "Normalize" audio feature, I'd be very much interested in hearing of it...

Jirka

ManuelG

Newbie Joined: Feb 22, 2013 23:39 Messages: 5 Offline

Feb 23, 2013 09:58

Thanks Jirka!

I think I might produce the whole audio track by itself then edit it with
The video. Smart idea, and its probably the fastest. Im not too confident.on using the normalize function, it hasnt really worked for me. But maybe i will now since ill have the audio track by itself
Thank you. Manuel