Encore CS4 Adjusting Audio for Slide Show

Greetings, I have Encore CS4. I am doing a slide show presentation and have imported an audio file into the slide show as well as set the slides to play within the audio time frame. My questions is...the audio file is too loud, how can I reduce the final output volume of the audio file? The file is a wave format. Thank you Jean [email protected]

Jean,
About the only thing that would help, would be for Adobe to offer a link to Audition, or SoundBooth, like the "Edit in Photoshop," from the Menu Editing Panel. That might make a good "Feature Request." Obviously, it would need to link to another program, as Encore is just an authoring program, and I would not like to see a bunch of NLE/Audio "features" added to it. However, the ability to link to an appropriate program could help. I do not have CS4, but with the tighter integration with Premiere, this linking might already exist.
I find myself in your situation all too often, if I bring in an Audio Asset, without first adjusting it. There is always that DUH! moment, when I first play the DVD RW and my speakers "walk" across the room.
Hunt

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