From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Setting up for audio mixing - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Setting up for audio mixing

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- [Instructor] While working on audio in a project it probably makes sense to use the audio workspace. So I'm going to click on this option on the far right side of the screen and just to be sure we're looking at the same interface I'm going to click on the menu here next to the audio workspace name and I'm going to choose restore current to default. I'll confirm and well in this case of course it looks exactly the same. There're, I suppose three main changes that occur when you switch to the audio workspace. The obvious first one is the introduction of the audio mixer to the interface. The audio mixer is a bit taller than my interface will display. So I'll probably be scrolling up and down a fair amount while showing you these lessons. The audio mixer is primarily used to make adjustments to either overall level for clips in your sequences or to make adjustments over time by recording the changes you make to these fader controls during playback. You also have the option to apply audio track effects using the audio mixer. The second major change is that the composer window switches to a single view. You can right click on the composer window at any time and switch to a dual monitor or a single monitor setup. And I suppose it's presumed that while you're working on your audio you're probably pretty much finished with browsing your original footage and viewing content in the source monitor. That said you can switch between the record monitor and source monitor at any time by pressing the Escape key on your keyboard. And of course double clicking on a sequence or on a clip will have the same result. Another addition to our workspace is the audio tool. The audio tool displays audio level with a little more detail than the meters at the top of the timeline window. Right now because I'm recording these tutorials at a relatively low screen resolution it seems we're a little compressed in our audio tool. So I'm going to resize this and stretch it out so that we can see the full width of the tool. We'll get into interpreting this in another lesson. If I play back this sequence you'll notice that we get audio level in several places. - You're not running out on me are you? - [Woman] No! - This means we can check our level track by track in the audio mixer we can see the overall mix in the audio tool or if we don't have the audio tool on screen we got to smaller display at the top of the timeline window. You can access these tools via the tools menu so you don't have to go into the audio workspace to use them but it's pretty convenient having a workspace where they're nicely nestled in amongst the other windows. Of course this does mean that our bin container has been compressed a little bit and there's not a lot of wiggle room to browse inside of it. You can scroll over using the navigator but chances are if you do want to go back to browsing your clips and editing you'll switch back over to the edit workspace.

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