From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Automate volume and pan changes

Automate volume and pan changes - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

Start my 1-month free trial

Automate volume and pan changes

“

- [Instructor] In addition to making flat audio level adjustments, it's likely you're going to want to change the audio level overtime. And to check this out, I've created a new sequence called Automate volume and pan. I'm in the complete version here. I'm going to start out by just hiding the Clip Gain because otherwise this interface is going to get a bit too busy. So I'm holding down the alt key, I'm clicking here and I'm deselecting Clip Gain just to tidy things up a little bit. Now I'm going to go into the same menu again with the alt key held down and this time I'm going to choose Volume. You can view the volume and gain controls at the same time, but I think it's tidier to work with one or the other. With my two music tracks enabled here, I can press the keyboard shortcut to add a keyframe which is the apostrophe key. And a keyframe is added to both tracks or if I move my play head along the timeline a little, I can always go into the Tools menu and into the Command Palette and…

Contents