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Adjusting Volume Using Keyboard Shortcuts
You can also adjust the volume of selected clips using keyboard shortcuts, even while the Timeline is playing. There are several ways you can set this up.
— To adjust just one clip: Select that clip, and use one of the commands for changing volume.
— To adjust any clip at the position of the playhead: Turn on Timeline > Selection Follows Playhead so that whichever clip intersects the playhead becomes selected, and use one of the commands for changing volume. If multiple clips are intersecting the playhead, the selected clip will be the one on the highest track.
— To adjust multiple clips all together: Select all of the clips you want to adjust, all at once, and use one of the commands for changing volume. If the clips you select have differing Volume levels, these differences will be maintained as you make your adjustments.
The commands for changing volume are as follows:
— To change volume in increments of 1dB: do one of the following:
— Clip > Audio > Increase Audio Level 1dB (Option-Command-Equals)
— Clip > Audio > Decrease Audio Level 1dB (Option-Command-Minus)
— To change volume in increments of 3dB: do one of the following:
— Clip > Audio > Increase Audio Level 3dB (Option-Shift-Equals)
— Clip > Audio > Decrease Audio Level 3dB (Option-Shift-Minus)
Normalize Audio Volume Command
The Normalize Audio Levels command automatically adjusts the level of clips to a specific target level, and you can choose the method used to analyze each audio clip’s levels to determine how to normalize each clip’s volume. Options include a variety of loudness normalization algorithms specific to various international standards, which are useful for balancing the perceived overall loudness of several clips to one another, regardless of transient levels throughout each clip. You can also do Peak normalization, with options for both Sample Peak and True Peak.
The various loudness options are designed to analyze an audio signal based on its perceived loudness to the listener, which results in a more accurate automatic balancing of different clips’ audio levels to one another, regardless of transient peaks occurring throughout different clips.
The target peak meter now uses the BS.1774 standard for measuring maximum “true peak,” which means that this meter is capable of measuring “inter-sample peaks,” rather than only the peaks at each sample of a waveform. However, you still have the option to measure Sample Peak, which is the previous method of measuring the actual peak of the samples in a media file.
The change made by the Normalize Audio Volume command is only a volume adjustment; no dynamics are applied, so the result of using this command is that the loudest parts of each selected clip are going to match one another at the target level. This command is also available in the Fairlight page.