Hi Chris

I hope that I have understood what you want. Have a look at the screenshot, it will give you the basic idea. If you need more help, please ask again. Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Thank you very much for your explanation, but I usually doing that that you tell me. First I put the volume line in -22dB but when I produce the video, the music sound too high and disturb to the voice.

If I loud to 24dB the music doesn't sound

I would like to ask if there are possible to have a more precise volume control, because I must to edit in wave editor for to get that I want and this process in another app dislike me.

Have you tried using the "audio mixing room" or have you been adjusting on the timeline?

If you have tried the audio mixing room without success, The Wave Editor or Audio Director is probably the best way forward.

In the meantime, someone else may come in with a better solution. Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

It makes the job much easier if you widen out vertically the audio timeline before making the audio adjustments. Move the mouse just to the left of the audio timeline into the icon area. Put the mouse on the lower edge untill it turns into a double arrow. Hold down the left mouse and drag down.

Thank you guys. I will use the Audio Director, always use Eave editor but the unique form to low the volume was lowing all in the ecualizer.

I will try to learn how to use Audio Editor.

Thank you for your time, I would think that there were a function thar reduce auto the volume when the voice speak.

Pardon for my poor english

Hi Chris

Please don't worry about your English - we're a mixed bunch here. Let's see if I can help you.

I don't have Audio Editor but use the Wave Editor instead.

Firstly though you say that you think Power Director should have a function that auto-reduces the volume when someone speaks. Well, that is a fairly complexs process, better suited to music software such as Cubase or Wavelab. But reducing one volume for another can be done. Of course I would argue that fading music out from one track and in from another is the same thing. PD cannot recognise what is music and what is speech.

How this is done in music software, on TV adverts and on radio is a process called "ducking", but better known as sidechain compression. If Audio Editor has this, I'd be impressed.

A compressor, in audio terms make a wave file such that the loud bits are made quieter and the quiet bits louder. So, if you take the side chain off the loudest bits of one bit of audio and feed it into the other, then this "ups" the overall volume. The compressor kicks in and "ducks" the volume of the music track, leaving the perceived volume of the other track, or the voice track to be louder.

So, when you hear the pumping sound in modern music, you now know what does it!

Okay, so what can YOU do in PD?

It will be a bit harder than inserting a compressor, and take a bit more time, but it is possible.

1 - Sort out the timing points where you want the soundtrack to "duck" and the vocals to come in

2 - Take your soundtrack (highlight it) and go into wave editor.

3 - Using your mouse in the wave file window, drag it between the points where you want the sound to fade out. It turns yellow.

4 - In the left hand pane select "Volume Fade" and select how much you want it to reduce by (say, 50%)

5 - Select the range where the vocal talking comes in. This time take the initial volume to be 50% and the ending volume to be, say 50%

6 - Now, fade your music back in.

Note that in the left hand pane are other options such as dynamic range compression etc, but this is the easiest option.

Other answers that you have received such as editing in the timeline are equally valid, but this is perhaps the easier way to do it until you are happier with keyframes.

As this is my first post to anyone else's problems (being a new member) I sincerrely hope this helps you achieve what you want to do, I hope it helps others and I really hope I haven't got anything wrong !! Good luck

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NeilB
Really good to see a new member answering.
Dafydd

Thank you very much NeilB this was I'm looking for.

Glad to help.

Another thing you could do to make things as crisp and clear as possible would be to normalise your vocal/voice track. You can do this in the audio room.

Neil --------
Neil B
Growing old is compulsory, Growing up is optional.
ASUS H110-plus Intel 16Gb RAM
Intel core I7-6700 3.4 GHz
NVidia GeForce GTX1060
Windows 10
Power Director 13 - up to date version
Photo Director 6 - up to date version
Colour Director 3 - up to date