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Selecting an audio clip in the Timeline and adjusting its Volume only alters the volume levels of
that clip, which lets you adjust basic levels for individual clips in your program. The Volume
control affects every channel within that clip simultaneously.
If you select multiple clips in the Timeline, then adjusting the Volume or Pan sliders or virtual
sliders for all of them simultaneously will make a relative adjustment to all of the clips,
preserving their offsets from one another. If you want to set all clips to the same level, then
making a numeric adjustment will set all selected clips to the same absolute level.
Adjusting Volume in the Timeline
Each clip (or item) of audio in the Timeline has a Volume overlay that lets you set that clip’s level
by simply dragging it up or down with the pointer. This overlay corresponds to the Volume
parameter in the Inspector.
Dragging a Volume overlay to adjust the clip level
Additionally, you can click any clip’s Audio Curve Editor button, at the bottom right-hand corner
of each audio clip, to open an audio-specific Curve Editor with which you can keyframe not just
Volume, but Pan, and the parameters of any audio filters you might have applied to that clip.
Adding and Adjusting Volume Keyframes in the Timeline
Mixing audio by adding and adjusting individual keyframes can be a fast and effective way of
balancing clip levels with one another and of fixing clip-specific dynamic level problems. When
manually editing any audio parameter curve, you can use the following procedures.
Methods of adjusting the Volume curve using the pointer:
 To adjust any curve segment: Position the pointer over the overall segment for clips
with no keyframes, or position it between any two keyframes, directly on top of the
curve segment you want to raise or lower. When the move cursor is displayed, click and
drag up to raise the Volume, or down to reduce the Volume.
 To add keyframes to the level curve: Hold the Option key down and click the curve
to place a keyframe at that frame. You must add at least two keyframes to create an
automated change in Volume.
 To adjust a keyframe in any direction: Move the pointer over a keyframe so that the
four-way cursor appears, and then click and drag up or down to change the Volume, or
side to side to change it’s timing.
 To adjust a keyframe in only one direction: Move the pointer over a keyframe so
that the four-way cursor appears, and then click and drag in the intended direction
of adjustment, either vertically to change the volume of the clip at that frame, or
horizontally to move the keyframe to a different point in time. Once you start dragging a
keyframe into a particular direction, keyframe movement is constrained in that direction
until you release that keyframe.
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