Audio mixer volume problem

I'm working with CS3. My timeline has two audio tracks. Track one is the clip verbal audio, that track is fine. Track 2 is the music that I want to fade in and out at certain chapter intervals. After adjusting all the volumes in track 2, when I go back to listen to the final product, my volume adjuster button keeps popping back to the bottom, no volume. When I did the adjusting I did it in "write" and then immediately saved it, but it keeps going down on its own. There must be a simple solution.

I've always had this problem in Premiere 6.5 too. I simply refuse to use the goofy audio mixer. I either do everything with envelopes, or if it's something much more complex I'll export to Audition and make my changes there.

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The "Audio Mix" volume settings that I set after adding a soundtrack to video in premiere elements 10 have stopped working and are no longer "sticky". I am running premiere elements on a Macbook pro with about 100GB free disc space and 8MB RAM. The volume settings adjusted using "Audio Mix" would previously "stick" as adjusted. I have not altered anything in how I adjust the volumes but "Audio Mix" has suddenly stopped functioning. Both the soundtrack and main captured audio track maintain full volume despite adjustment. I have tried to restart the computer and reload the program to no avail.

Correct.
I used to be able to adjust the volume with the Audio Mixer "on the fly" with the video playing and it would stay adjusted (as depicted in the tutorials). This no longer happens. The Mixer used to generate keyframes automatically. It no longer appears to generate keyframes and the volume remains at baseline for all the tracks.
I have not tried to manually set the volume level by dragging it and creating audio keyframes on it yet. I will try this but the videos are long with multiple fade ins and fade outs and this would likely be too laborious to accomplish.

Audio volume problem in Premiere elements 12

How can I reduce or increase volume in the soundtrack???

Sorry for my English but I hope you understandthe following.
I have for the moment no time to go through your comments and ideas, but I certainly will do the coming days.
For good order I’ll explain my problem more in detail: (working with Window’s 7)
When I use Tools>smartmix, I change Audio 1 in “forground”, Comments in “foreground”, Soundtrack in “Background”, Audio 2 and 3 in “Background”. So far so good!.
Next step is: edit>preferences>audio>smartmixer, and the only thing I can change is “milliseconds (i.e. 10)”, “mix pause (i.e. 5 sec)”, and “reduce background in % (i.e. 90%)”. So far so good again!
The volume sound of the audio track is indeed reduced when there is a conversation in the clip, but not enough, so still too loud, certainly when the conversation stops, the volume sound is far too loud.
What do I want:
a) Remain the original volume from the conversations etc. in the clip, so don’t change anything in here.
b) Reduce the volume to the level I like!
I realise, this looks an easy and simple question, but I can’t fide out hou too lower only the volume in a soudtrack!
Waiting your reply and many thanks in advance
Regards
P.Gans
Van: A.T. Romano [email protected]
Verzonden: vrijdag 10 januari 2014 4:05
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Audio Mix Problem

This has been driving me crazy for the last three hours and the deadline is end of day tomorrow. Here's what's happening:
I'm working with FCP 4.5 on a G5 Dual 2Ghz, OS 10.3.9. I finished editing a short 15 minute piece for a client. It consisted of some live footage of various places. The footage was all imported via a DV converter from VHS-C and Hi8 cameras. Audio was set to 48kHz There was a lot of editing to get the 2 hours of footage down to 15 minutes. As I was editing I was adjusting the audio volume of each clip so that the levels were similar from clip to clip. When playing back the timeline and watching the Audio Mixer window everything was fine. The faders would change as the playhead moved over each clip. Then we did a voice over. I made sure that the sample rate was set to 48k. That all went well. I then exported a mix for Soundtrack and created a music bed in Soundtrack. The Soundtrack project was set for 48k. I exported that mix and then imported the resulting .aif file into FCP. I added that to the timeline and that's where my problem began. The piece opens with some graphics for the first 30 seconds. The voiceover starts right away. When I play the timeline and look at the Audio Mixer everything looks fine. The voiceover channel (3) shows the audio level and the fader is at 0. The music bed channels (4/5) shows the levels and the fader is at zero (except for a brief bump up to +2 for a few seconds and then back to zero. And the audio for the video clips (channels 1/2) shows -inf on the fader and there is no signal, which is correct. Now when the playhead hits the 30 second mark and the audio from the video clips is supposed to enter; the channels for that audio never indicate any level, and the faders don't move from -inf. Also all of the other channel meters stop indicating the level. They just stop working. But the audio from the video clips is not even playing. I should be able to hear the on-scene audio when the video clips start. Even though all of the meters stop working the audio from the voiceover channel and the music bed do continue to play.
I looked through all of the appropriate settings and found the one for 'number of channels for live mixing' (or something similar) and it was set for 4. I thought that was going to solve everything, but unfortunately it didn't do anything. FWIW playback quality was set to 'low' on that same settings page.
Interestingly enough, if I just click in the timeline in random places while it is stopped, the faders will all move to what they are supposed to be set for at that point in time. However, if I play the timeline from that point there still won't be any audio levels indicated on the meters and the faders will not change as the timeline continues to play.
I can't think of anything else to try. I did reboot. I searched the archives here and didn't see anything similar to this problem. I'd really appreciate if someone could offer some suggestions. I hope I explained everything clearly enough.
Thanks,
Chris

Did the audio that won't play back now, playback
before you brought in the files from Soundtrack?
Yes, the audio tracks from the video clip played back fine before I brought in the Soundtrack music.
Is it possible you could have overwritten those
channels when you brought in the Soundtrack file?
No, because the Soundtrack music bed is on audio tracks 4/5 and the original audio from the video is on audio tracks 1/2. Also I can delete the Soundtrack file from the timeline and the audio on tracks 1/2 will play again and the meters and faders will respond properly.
If you load the problem clips in the viewer, do they
playback their sound?
I think they did, but I'm going to have to try again to be sure. I'm on another computer right now. I will do that within the hour and update this post.
Have you tried doing an audio mixdown?
rh
By mixdown, do you mean exporting the audio from the timeline? If so, I haven't done that because since I'm not hearing the audio from the video tracks I'm assuming it won't be in the mix when I export.
Thanks for helping out. I'm going to try a few more things and post back.
Regards,
Chris

Audio Mixer. Soundtrack Volume slider not working.

I am using Premiere Elements 11 running under Windows 7, 64 bit. I was in the middle of editing the soundtrack of a slideshow (video clips combined with .jpg photos). In Audio Mixer the Soundtrack volume slider stopped working. It would not move up or down. What have I done to cause this?

John,
Sounds like Track Keyframes have already been added with Audio Mixer.
Now, you can easily overwrite those, but only with automation in Audio Mixer. With Audio Mixer open, just hit the Spacebar, and immediately adjust the Volume to what you want. If you do not need active Volume control, i.e. it changes over time, just hold the Volume slider in the position that you want, until playback has finished. Done, and the old Track Keyframes will have been overwritten.
If your Audio comes too close to the beginning of the Timeline, for you to comfortably begin to adjust it, after hitting playback, just create about a 02 sec. Clip of Black Video (New Icon), and place that at the very beginning of the Timeline. That will also create 02 sec. of silence (often termed Black Audio, by some), and give you plenty of time to get up to the Volume slider. Personally, I start every Timeline with 02 sec. of Black Video, then do a Dip-to-Black Transition to "fade in" my Video. [There is another reason, but it does not apply in PrE. As I create most Projects with DD 5.1 SS Audio, some DVD players take a moment to lock onto the Audio Stream, and that gives them time to do so, without affecting the Audio that the viewer hears.]
One other method, to change things fairly easily, would be to Select ALL Audio Clips on that Track, then just drag them to another, free Audio Track, without Track Keyframes.
This method brings back the ability to use the other control in Audio Mixe - a static adjustment, where one just sets the Volume slider to the desired level, and it stays there.
A tip, that might be useful, is to go to Edit>Preferences>Audio, and set Minimal Time Interval Thinning up to about 100ms. This creates fewer Track Keyframes, and I find it still more than adequate for smooth adjustments in Volume and Balance. If there is any interval, that is too abrupt, I just manually change the Interpolation of the Keyframe from Linear (the default) to say Bezier.
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Audio mixer - suddenly volumes are not adjusted

Hi. PE4. I used the audio mixer in a few project without hassles. In this specific project, I edited the volume levels using the audio mixer successfully. Now I want to make changes to the audio volume but suddenly the audio mixer does not update the audio volume at all. What can I do to get this sorted? Thanks.

Robert,
Bear with me on this, as I use P-Pro most of the time, so what I am about to type might not apply to PE.
On the Audio Track, one needs to set the view to display Track Keyframes. From the Audio Mixer, when hitting the Spacebar (Play) and adjusting the Pot for that Track's Audio, Keyframes are added. In Pro's Audio Mixer, these Keyframes (Track Keyframes, not Clip Keyframes) are only added, when I change the Send to Touch or Write. PE's Audio Mixer does not seem to have Sends. It also appears that the Audio Mixer needs to stay open, though you can make it small and tuck it away. My test of it indicated that when you Close it, the Keyframes disappear. (Can someone correct me here?) I would *guess* that if one did a Save, or Save_As at this point, the Audio Track Keyframes would be Saved. This last step is not necessary for me in Pro, as the Audio Mixer is always open and is just tabbed to another Panel, so it's never in my way. I will experiment with Pro and see what happens if I close the Audio Mixer. It might work the same as in PE, but I have not tried that, since I never close mine.
One additional note: in Pro, you can set the Keyframe interval for Track Keyframes. I'd guess that you can in PE too - probably from the Preferences Menu. Potting with the Audio Mixer can generate a lot of Keyframes, depending on the interval set. These can be moved around, just like Clip Keyframes, but you'll want to zoom in on that Track to see what you're doing - both horizontal and vertical zoom.
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[Edit] In Pro, when you close the Audio Mixer, the Track Keyframes remain.

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I am using a Presonus Firebox firewire mixer and record to just below clipping.
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Hi Tahseen,
Thanks for your help with this problem.
I have been using PE since version 5 - a long time!. I have used Audio
Mixer for all those years but I have never had this problem before.
My video clips are AVCHD video. My stills are JPG and the soundtrack
music is MP3.
I have a slideshow which is a mixture of stills, video and soundtrack.
During "Expert" editing there is speech on Video 1 so I try to lower the
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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
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