Sequence of stills - record commentary for some stills - others silent; add continuous background music (to last channel). Want to reduce volume of background during commentary. How is it done?
Help files not easy to understand - can you advise please? (Seemed to be easy to do in older versions.)
Apologies if I am just being stupid.
BSHR
Hi Brian,
See my answer at:
http://www.magix.info/uk/muting-background-music-during-a-video-clip.forum.1051376.html
It is in the discussion part of the PhotoStory forum.
You didn't say which version you have. In the 2013 manual, see pages 114-115, or search for Automatic Volume Damping and Manual Volume Decrease.
Your question is fine. The problem is language. It seems that each program has its own language and jargon that has to be learned to even know which term to lookup in a manual.
Please let me know how it works out.
Problem solved! Version is 2014.
Optimum procedure seems to be: arrange stills and record narrative for each still - so that a still will remain on screen for duration of narrative. (Do what editing -add/delete still - delete/re-record narrative) is necessry at this stage). The narrative will appear in track #2.
Now import background music into track #4. Presuming that not all stills will have associated narrative, click on the narrative section relatng to a particular still - want to reduce volume of background while this still is visible.
Go to effects->decrease volume; in drop-down box, un-tick 'only decrease the video's audio tracks'; choose one of soft/medium/hard for volme reduction (some experimentation needed here - I used 'hard'); edit cross-fade lead-in/lead-out times (1s seems about right); click OK.
Result: volume of background music will be reduced for the viewing time of that still plus the lead-in at the beginning and the lead-out at the end. Now move to the next narrative section and repeat process.
BSHR
Hi Brian,
That is excellent! You should add in some illustrated screen shots, call it a tutorial, and submit it.
Regards,
To Browj2: II wanted to thank you. Last week was having trouble doing with what you call "ducking." I searched and found your 11/14/15 response to Kristen.
It was so helpful I wanted to thank you (now I can't find that post). I have 2017 Photostory and the manual made no sense to me. You did! THANKS! You should be their manual writer!
HI,
Thank you for the compliment and for posting it. It is good to know that our assistance on these forums helps more than one person.
I rarely go into the PhotoStory area now as I don't have a recent version. However, PhotoStory is about the same as Movie Edit Pro with a different look and less tracks, so you may want to follow MEP and also look at tutorials about it.
Glad to have helped!
John CB