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4 Choose how you want to set the level of multiple selected clips:
When Set Level is set to Relative, all selected clips are treated as if they’re one clip,
so that the highest peak level of all selected clips is used to define the adjustment,
and the volume of all selected clips is adjusted by the same amount. This is good if
you have a series of clips, such as a dialog recording, where the levels are consistent
with one another, and you want to normalize all of them together.
When Set Level is set to Independent, the peak level of each clip is used to define
the adjustment to that clip, so that the volume of every selected clip is adjusted by
an amount specific to that clip. The end result may be a set of very different volume
adjustments intended to make the peak levels of each audio clip match one another.
This is good if, for example, you’re trying to balance a series of different sound
effects with one another that have very different starting levels.
For more information about loudness normalization, see Chapter 160, “Audio Meters
and Audio Monitoring.
Clip Pan
Each audio clip in the Timeline has a simple stereo Pan control that lets you pan that clip.
Whilemost professional mixes will restrict panning to the more robust panner found in the
Fairlight page Mixer, this simple clip-based Pan control is useful for editors of visuals working in
the Edit page to quickly create simple panning effects to aid in a craft edit. Dragging the slider
lets you pan audio left to right. This control is centered at 0 by default.
Clip Pan Control
Clip Pitch Controls
Each audio clip in the Timeline has Clip Pitch controls that let you alter the pitch of a clip without
changing the speed. Two sliders let you adjust clip pitch in Semi Tones (large adjustments, a
twelfth of an octave) and Cents (fine adjustments, 100th of an octave).
Clip Pitch control in the Inspector
Clip EQ
Each audio clip in the timeline has a four-band equalizer that has both graphical and numeric
controls for boosting or attenuating different ranges of frequencies within that clip, before it
even gets to the EQ built into the mixer. Each band has controls for the filter type (Bell, Lo-Shelf,
Hi-Shelf, Notch), Frequency, Gain, and Q-factor (sharpness of the band), with the available
controls for each band of EQ changing depending on the filter type.
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