Audio level control missing

I have a Philips portable DVD player. It has a built-in audio amplifier, speakers, headphone and line out. But the volume control on its amplifier does not work with DVDs authored in iDVD. It does work with other DVDs that I own (like movies). I can pre-set the volume in iDVD for, say, a slide show. But when I burn the DVD and play, the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons on the Philips unit do nothing. With other DVDs, when I push those buttons, there is a pop-up showing the volume level. But with DVDs authored in iDVD, it plays only at the pre-set level. I can mute it, but I cannot control audio level. Did I miss something in iDVD?

OK. The situation is a bit better than I thought. Any DVD burned with iDVD disables only the volume control on the REMOTE CONTROL of the Philips PET 1030/37. On the unit itself (as opposed to its hand-held remote) THE VOLUME CONTROL STILL WORKS. So, just to be clear, there still is something weird about DVDs made with iDVD, because the volume control on the hand-held remote does NOT work for them. On store-bought movie DVDs (not burned with iDVD), the hand-held remote DOES work (as well as the on-unit volume control). This issue starts to feel to me like a non-configurable option that they have pre-set in iDVD. Maybe someone familiar with the full DVD authoring software (DVD Studio Pro 4) could tell us what's going on. Of course that software is available ONLY as a component of Final Cut Studio 2. It is not available stand-alone.

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Dear Sony -I absolutely love your DSLRs. However, to use the camera as an acceptable tool for amateur/indie/professional film, manual audio level controls in video mode are a must-have. Equal Canon competitors all feature this simple leveling option for managing audio.Currently, the automatic gain control is the only option for audio recording capabilities on Sony Alpha DSLRS in video recording. While in theory OK, AGC leads to terrible problems such as unnecessarily high and distracting background noise/hiss. Filmmakers desire crisp, clear audio!For quality results using an external microhpone, manual audio levels are the only way for filmmakers to achieve decent in-camera audio to compete with Canon users. Many amateur and professional videographers are in desperate need of this function! Audio is often MORE important than the image quality of your film, although Sony seems to increasingly neglect its video DSLR users by not implementing this ability and falling short on video options (Auto-focus in Manual Mode, audio levels on HUD etc.).To keep my Sony A65 a viable option for video work - please see if anything can be done! (Should be able to be added with a firmware update to all current and existing Alpha DSLRS) Thanks!!! - Love, a filmmaker who would desperately like to keep their A65 for professional video work! (Also from "Join The Inspiration")

Though a great idea, you also have to understand that the a65 isn't as film oriented camera like other cameras.
DSLR cameras with the audio controls are designed with film making in mind, thus they have that option.
Most DSLRs (at least, back in the days) was simply a camera to take photos. If you wanted to do film, you'd buy a dedicated film recorder for that. Having video capabilities in a DSLR was a bonus.
Nowadays, it's merging, bang for buck, reaching to a boarder audience, one size fits all, etc, and unfortunately, the a65 wasn't part of that 'nowadays' era.
The a99 and a77ii, if I remember correctly, has audio controls.
A lot of the newer Sony models (mirrorless) also have audio controls, that is, the ones that a targeted towards film making and not just great photos with the bonus of great video.
Also, I would presume that a lot of 'professional' videographers will either use external mics such as on a pole, a lapel mic, etc, to capture perfect audio, or if not, at least a shotgun/boom mic attached to the camera.
When doing such, there technically shouldn't be a lot of problems with the audio quality. Of course, if those external mics are still recorded into the camera, then yeah... but if they're recorded separately and slapped on during post processing... shouldn't be any problems...
If you're relying purely on the a65 and it's AGC, then there definitely will be shortcomings here and there unfortunately.
I recently filmed my niece-in-law's wedding. I didn't have any fancy mic setups (can't afford it at this stage), and this wasn't any sort of 'professional' work, more of just something for the family (free), but the audio came out excellent. Yes, it caught ambient noise (obviously), but I don't hear any cutoffs or badly pitched noises, or anything. The loud music and people cheering on and such all came through very clearly. Sure, it's no 'professional' bitrate or anything, but at 192kbps, it did the job.
Anyways, that was off topic, but all I'm saying is, you can't expect much from a photo taking centred camera which has been slapped on with nice video capabilities unfortunately. Also, due to the a65's age, I don't think Sony's bringing out anymore updates. My advice is either get an a77ii for it's awesome AF, or if full frame is a desire, then the a99 or a mirrorless (up to you).The a99 has a controllable focus range which is something I like, that way, if you're using autofocus (yeah... what 'professional' videographer would use autofocus aye?), you won't lose focus on subjects if something goes in front/behind it.Also, the little wheel at the front really helps in allowing you to make adjustments without disrupting video or causing too much movement in the camera. Right now, I am planning on getting a RX10ii. Though I'd love to get something from the mirrorless range, it's just way out of my budget (even the RX10ii is, so there's a lot of saving to do right now also...). Anyways, good luck with your videos.

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Is there any way to control the audio levels of the background audio played when the DVD menu first appears. I assume that DVD Studio Pro may have more control over this but I am using iDVD for now and am stuck. Thanks

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I'm developing an application to capture a live audio stream (by definition a PushDataSource). I want to provide my own controls for monitoring the audio (e.g. mute button, volume level control). What methods set the volume level? I didn't see any of this in the documentation.
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brcain wrote:
Do I have to implement a GainEffect plug-in ... just to change the monitored audio level?No. You can actually implement the controls on the PushDataSource itself.
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[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=28&threadID=5342704]
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Glitch with Audio Level Control

I've been having this issue for a long time now on several computers and with different versions of FCP, and it's really bothered me lately. At times when I am keyframing audio levels in the timeline, if I add a keyframe to an audio track it will randomly lower the level of the track by 1db. This doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen often with long audio clips. Usually my workaround is to make two cuts on the track around the area i want to change and then add in the audio keyframes. Sometimes this doesn't even work. Anyone else have this issue or know of a way to resolve it?
Like I said I've had this problem with almost all versions of 5. I can't remember if I had this issue with 4.
Thanks!

this only happens when you use the pen tool to add the keyframe ... whats happening, whether you mean to or not, is that the act of clicking, to add the keyframe, is also occasionally pushing that new keyframe down a bit, causing the drop in level.
the easiest workaround is is to use Cmd-Opt-K, to add an audio level keyframe at the playhead position .... or to resize the audio tracks so as the mouse movement has less or no impact on the level.

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I am having a hard time with the volume of my main menu audio. When I import the track I want to use and drop it in the top menu, I have no way of adjusting the volume. I usually mix all of my audio in final cut to a maximum of -12db.
The volume appears to be fine when I'm authoring the disc. I go from the main menu with sound to the tracks and the audio appears to be at the same level. However, after producing the finished DVD, the menu audio is usually way too loud. I would say it's at least 12 db hotter than the program material. Hence, when you navigate back to the main menu from the tracks, it's way too loud.
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David:
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There is no way to adjust the volume inside DVDSP, you must edit your audio level in other app before importing it (FCP, Soundtrack, etc).
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Just a quick note...
I am using iChat to monitor my elderly Grandfather who has mobility problems. He lives with me, but in a different room in my home.
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In the Alerts tab of iChat preferences, select Video Invitation from the Event pop-up menu. Then select the Run Applescript checkbox and select Auto Accept.applescript from the adjacent pop-up menu.
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I'll take a stab at it.
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Maybe view parameters or view channel strip only settings may help.
Not sitting in front of Logic at the moment.
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Did you use this laptop with two monitors? Perhaps the dialog box is still on the other monitor, this sounds strange sorry, but it happened to me before. I'm used to have another monitor connected in college and then have some panels on one monitor, if I forget to restore to one monitor sometimes certain boxes seem to have disappeared.
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I am trying to record narration, but unfortunately I am getting really low levels when trying to record into Soundtrack Pro (I even tried Garageband but got the same result). The audio levels are ok coming out of the board (loud but no clipping), and when checking the audio input in System Preferences it seems to be where it should be, but when recording they barely register above -20 db on the STP meter and they end up sounding muddied and full of noise when I try to normalize them to an acceptable level. I've tried using a preamp (even though the Heil theoretically shouldn't need one) and it makes little to no difference. What am I missing??? Please help!!!

Thanks for the feedback - to answer your questions, I had all of the levels cranked as high as they would go (even though that is not supposed to be necessary) as well as those of a preamp we picked up. We tried these settings with and without the preamp and received about the same result - the only difference being the preamp distorted the voice slightly. The cranked gain boosted the levels to where they showed on the audio board as healthy (around 0 db) and sounded ok through headphones and/or speakers setup on the board's control room out, but once those came into the computer via Firewire cable, they hardly registered on the software.
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I'm confused why when you change the audio levels on a clip using the Audio Mixer it changes the levels for everything on the track?
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Audio in Premiere Pro is different--but quite a lot, in many circumstances. I'd recommend going through the help file's audio section to get a better idea of what some of the main controls are: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5 * Editing Audio
But to answer your question more directly: the Audio Mixer controls track volume, not clip volume. By default, the Audio Mixer isn't set to drop keyframes, so it will affect the level of a track as a whole; check out Recording audio mixes to get more background on setting up the Audio Mixer for automation, so that you can record level changes.
The rubberbands (the yellow lines you're referring to) can be more finitely controlled by holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key as you drag; the values will move in smaller increments, then.
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Is this correct.

It's a while since I used iMovie '08, but from memory I think the audio worked in a similar fashion to iMovie '09. In iMovie '09 you can right-click (Control-click) on a clip, then select Split Clip from the pop-up menu. First, click and drag across the clip to highlight with a yellow border the section where you wish to adjust the volume. Then right-click and choose Split Clip. The section you highlighted will now show as a separate clip.
Click on the small gear icon on the separated clip and choose Audio Adjustments from the pop-up menu. In the Inspector that opens you can adjust the volume of the clip. Also, if you have a separate music track or voiceover running under the clip, you can use the Ducking feature to reduce the volume of the other tracks. Tick the Ducking box and move the slider to the desired level. You can also fade the audio in and out on the main video track for the separated clip.
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