Specifications

ptg
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Basic Audio Editing
7. First, let’s take the “bad” audio out of the equation. If you solo the left
channel by clicking the Solo button above track A1, you will notice
that the audio is echoey and generally poor quality. It’s probably best
to remove this content altogether. Therefore, drag down the A1 level
slider down to the bottom (negative infinity).
8. Now, on track A2, Alt+click (Windows) or Option+click (Macintosh)
the box that reads R100. This will pan the audio on A2 to MID (50 per-
cent left/50 percent right).
9. Now, click Play Loop again, and begin raising the audio level slider on
A2 until the Audio tool registers an audio level between 0 dB and +6
dB (digital).
This audio should now sound pretty good. When you use this clip in the
future, it will maintain the corrected audio level. (However, any instance
of this clip that was previously edited into a sequence will not reflect this
adjustment and, therefore, will still exhibit poor audio quality.)
10. Repeat this process using the Yo-el interview 1 clip. This clip has
problems much like the Tony interview 1 clip, so the adjustments
should be similar.
Sometimes, if your dialogue audio is set to always be edited on stereo
tracks (for example, A1 and A2), you will want to retain the track order and
keep both A1 and A2 as your dialogue audio (even if one of your audio
tracks is of poor quality). Then, you’d simply perform the necessary adjust-
ments to account for the mismatch in quality, as you’re doing in this exer-
cise. However, if track ordering isn’t important, you can choose not to edit
the audio of poorer quality into the Timeline and instead just include one
track of audio panned to the center.
NOTE For this exer-
cise (to give you more
practice in audio track
adjustments), assume
that your dialogue audio
is assigned to A1 and A2
and you are preparing
the audio accordingly.
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