Audio ducking/fading

I have looked in the discussions and didn't see that anyone had brought this topic up before.
I was making a slideshow and imported some video into it. I don't need the audio, so in most of the clips I removed (i.e. reduced to zero) the audio before I imported them into Aperture.
Unfortunately, whether the clips have audio or not, Aperture 3 seems to want to temporarily fade my main music track. I've tried:
- turning the audio all the way down on each of the tracks
- importing the audio tracks of each clip and turning down the main volume control, fade in and fade out in the audio adjustments HUD
- unclicking the "reduce volume of main track" on audio adjustments HUD
- re-clicking the "reduce volume of main track" on audio adjustments HUD AND turning it all the way up to 100%
- removing the main audio track and re-adding it
Bottom line, nothing I've tried changes Aperture 3's apparent desire to fade audio in video clips, whether they have audio or not -- or whether I want the main track faded or not. Am I missing something, or is this something I should ask Apple to fix in a future update?
Thanks,
M.

Having the same issue this evening. I'd love an answer as well. Seems pretty basic that one should be able to choose to override the inserted video'a audio track with the track for the slide show.
Thanks to anyone who knows a workaround.

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This is sad. Discussions reports 2 helpful answers and 1 solved answer. I see no answers. I too am having problems. No matter what I set for ducking (including zero%), it is ignored for my voiceover and the background track plays full volume. I've had to resort to dropping the background volume which is not what I want for the initial part of my clip.
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Message was edited by: Pecos Bill

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Hi Alex,
Although not shown on your notebooks download page, there is a recent driver update that has corrected this issue in some cases, so try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp57501-58000/sp57966.exe
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When complete, restart the notebook and let Windows fully load. Open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, restart the notebook again.
Has this made any difference to the issue?
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I made a test in my testing enviroment, when using Skype(Store APP) for phone call, system background volume would reduce, while after I'm back to desktop, it would return to former volume.
For your situation, this problem can be caused by Sound Card driver problem, you can try to reinstall Sound Card driver for test.
If no use, please also try to reinstall Skype for test.
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