Fading Audio?

I have my Apple TV connected to my TV, which is then connected to some exterior speakers. For some reason, whenever I am using my Apple TV, the audio will randomly continue to fade in and out. Has anyone experienced the same issue? I'm not sure if it is the Apple TV doing this, or if it's a bad connection with the speakers.

Are the speakers connected via optical or feeding through the TV?

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I'm trying to determine if there is a shortcut for this situation in FCP 5...
You have two audio clips butted adjacent to each other.
You want the first clip to fade down to zero (i.e. silence).
You want the second clip to fade up from zero.
So basically you have a split second of silence between the two clips.
The video equivalent would be touching black for a second between the
two clips. You can use the "Fade In Fade Out Dissolve" to do it fast.
I realize you can accomplish this audio manuvers with 4 keyframes and the pen tool. I know you can also put an audio transisions on the end of each clip. There are a bunch of ways of getting there, but is there a really
fast way like the "Fade In Fade Out Video dissolve" or a keyboard shortcut?
Thanks for any feedback.

When I need to do somethig like that I make sure there at least a 1 frame gap between the two and ad audio transitions on the end of clip 1 and the beginning of clip 2.
If someone has a faster way, i'd love to know it.

SOLUTION to faded audio quality

itunes was not playing my songs correctly and every other second of my music was faded out much like a strobe light. by fooling around with itunes preferences and quicktime settings, as suggested by other users, i came to find a solution (at least for my computer). you must open the quicktime media player and have it run alongside itunes for the music to play. i wish there were a different way and if i didn't have to open quicktime everytime i wanted to listen to the tuneskis then correct me please.

Oh, that's just wrong. Millions of other users don't have to do that, but there's Windows for ya.
That actually sounds like malware attacking iTunes but it forgot about QuickTime.
Go look at Rachyl's posts about ewido malware removal, maybe that will help. She is the expert on malware removal.

Function to fade audio smoothly from one level to another in AS2

Greetings all.
I'm a newcomer to Actionscript programming and trying to modify a Flash site template downloaded from TemplateMonster.com (which is an AS2 template). I've almost succeeded at what I need to do but have run into a couple of brick walls. One is that I've added a video player to the site and need to make the background music track smoothly fade out when the video starts and fade back in when it ends (or is stopped). I set up a listener object for the video player that works. It's the smooth fade of audio levels that doesn't.
I found an excellent thread from last year (http://forums.adobe.com/message/3236495) in which kglad address the issue of fading audio from one level to another. Since TemplateMonster's templates set up a master movie clip and then load pages to play within it, and I need to call the function from within the pages, I tried setting it up as a global function.
So when the overall site initializes, I have this:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcMusictrackHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var sndAudio:Sound = new Sound(mcMusictrackHolder);
var nMaxMusicVolume:Number = new Number(mcMusictrackHolder);
nMaxMusicVolume = 30;
sndAudio.attachSound("MusicTrack");
sndAudio.setVolume(nMaxMusicVolume);
sndAudio.start(0,9999);
// Here is kglad's function converted to a global function
_global.fadeSoundF = function(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,vol:Number,sec:Number):Void
     trace("Getting here with sound at " + s.getVolume());
     clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
     var volumeInc:Number = vol-s.getVolume()/(10*sec);
     mc.fadeI=setInterval(fadeF,100,mc,s,volumeInc,vol);
     trace("Leaving with sound at " + s.getVolume());
function fadeF(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,inc:Number,endVol:Number):Void
     s.setVolume(s.getVolume()+inc);
     if(Math.abs(s.getVolume-endVol)<inc)
          clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
Then within the page that contains the video player (a child of the above), I have this:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
var sCurrentState:String;
listenerObject.stateChange = function(eventObject:Object):Void
sCurrentState = my_FLVPlybk.state;
if (sCurrentState == "playing")
fadeSoundF(_root.mcMusictrackHolder,_root.sndAudio,0,1);
else
fadeSoundF(_root.mcMusictrackHolder,_root.sndAudio,_root.nMaxMusicVolume,1);
my_FLVPlybk.addEventListener("stateChange", listenerObject);
The listener object is working fine - so if instead of calling fadeSoundF I simply do _root.sndAudio.setvolume(0) to mute and _root.sndAudio.setvolume(30) to restore it works fine except that the volume changes abruptly instead of ramping.
But obviously there's a problem with my effort to convert kglad's function to global and use it that way, because the trace statements tell me the audio is getting set to random levels. It smoothly ramps all right - but tries to get to -472 or +8212 or other insane numbers.
Any help with where I'm going wrong would be deeply appreciated. Keep in mind that although I have some long-ago programming experience in other languages, this environment is completely alien to me and you can feel free to assume I'm completely ignorant. What I've managed to piece together is largely pulled from online research, which is why there's probably an obvious glaring error in there. Feel free to provide a response that assumes I know nothing.
Best,
Pete

I added a few more traces. Here's the new main page:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcMusictrackHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var sndAudio:Sound = new Sound(mcMusictrackHolder);
var nMaxMusicVolume:Number = 30;
sndAudio.attachSound("MusicTrack");
sndAudio.setVolume(nMaxMusicVolume);
sndAudio.start(0,99999);
_global.fadeSoundF = function(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,vol:Number,sec:Number):Void
          trace("Getting here with level at " + sndAudio.getVolume());
          trace("asking to set it to " + vol + " in " + sec + " second(s).");
          clearInterval(mc.fadeI);
          var volumeInc:Number = vol-s.getVolume()/(10*sec);
          mc.fadeI=setInterval(fadeF,100,mc,s,volumeInc,vol);
          trace("Leaving with sound at " + sndAudio.getVolume());
          trace(" ");
function fadeF(mc:MovieClip,s:Sound,inc:Number,endVol:Number):Void
          s.setVolume(s.getVolume()+inc);
          if(Math.abs(s.getVolume-endVol)<inc)
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Here's sample trace output:
Getting here with level at 30                  <---- this is on first visiting the page where the listener object initializes and asks it to ramp the audio from its
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).             current level to the same level (probably because the video is buffering or rewinding and that counts as a state change).
Leaving with sound at 30
Getting here with level at 111                <---- this is a second triggering of the function (probably because the video is STOPPED and that counts as a
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).            state change after buffering). As of yet the video hasn't been asked to play.
Leaving with sound at 111
Getting here with level at 3765               <---- This is what happens when the video is asked to play; since it is asking to leave the level at 30 I'm guessing it is buffering
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).              again but not playing yet, which is why it's still being asked to set the background to 30 instead of 0.
Leaving with sound at 3765
Getting here with level at 3765                <---- NOW the video is actually playing, so it asks to set the background audio to 0.
asking to set it to 0 in 1 second(s).
Leaving with sound at 3765
Getting here with level at -41740             <---- ... and I hit STOP, which generates a request to bring the background audio back to 30.
asking to set it to 30 in 1 second(s).
Leaving with sound at -41740
I should probably replace the if/else on the video player page with a switch/case so the function ONLY gets called when playback actually stops and starts, and doesn't get triggered for every state change. But I think I still have an error in here someplace...
Many thanks to kglad for your help!
Pete

Suggestions for blending audio from one clip to next?

I'm learning editing and PP and am practicing by editing different clips from a movie to make my own trailer. The problem I'm having is that going from one clip to another has obvious and abrupt changes. I could add audio transitions to each clip, though for a 2.5 minute trailer I'm not sure if fading audio up and down constantly is the best choice? What is the best way to blend the audio from one clip to the next?
Thanks.

You can create a crossfade (essentially an
audio dissolve) from one audio clip to another.
With the audio track(s) targeted, park the Playhead at the
audio cut and hit Ctrl+Shift+D (or drag from the effect panel):
You need to be sure you have sufficient 'handles'
on both clips to accommodate the crossfade.
Creating an audio crossfade
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cs6/creating-an-audio-crossfade/

Any way to increase audio level of your movie?

I've uploaded a taped video into iMovie and when I play it back, the volume level is too low (I can hear it but it's not loud). I've increased the system pref vol, the vol level, and the volume level in iMovie so everything has been turned all the way up.
I saw where you can extract the audio. What can you do with it when you extract it? Incresase it? And if you can increase it, how would you add the audio back to the movie?
What I want to know is, is there another way to increase the volume if you've turned up all the computer volume controls and it's too low?
Mark

The best place to increase / adjust audio levels assuming the source video footage has something to work with is in the video editing app. Have you tried posting this question to the iMovie forum?
If your iMovie has low audio levels to start with then this will also be reflected w/in iDVD if no adjustments are made beforehand. Hope this makes sense.
Also check in the iMovie Help Menu if you haven't already:
I can't hear the audio in my movie
If you can't hear some or all of the audio in your movie, here are some things you can check:
Make sure your computer's volume is turned up. Use the speaker controls on your keyboard or the volume slider in the menu bar.
Use the volume slider below the iMovie monitor to increase the movie volume.
Make sure the audio checkbox is selected for the track you want to hear. The audio checkbox is to the right of each track in the timeline viewer.
If the audio checkbox is selected, then choose View > Show Clip Volume Levels and see if the audio levels for the tracks are set to a level that can be heard.
Making your movie louder or softer
If you find that all or part of your movie is too loud or too soft, you can adjust the volume of your movie in the timeline viewer. You can increase or decrease the volume of the entire movie or just specific audio clips. For example, at a certain point in a video you might dramatically increase or decrease the volume of accompanying music.
IMPORTANT: These instructions are for setting the volume of video that people will hear as they play your movie. If you only want to adjust the volume of your computer's speakers, see "Adjusting the volume of your computer in iMovie HD" below.
To make your movie louder or softer:
Click the Timeline Viewer button (shown above).
Select the clip or clips whose volume you want to change in the timeline viewer.
Tip: To learn how to select multiple clips, see "Selecting clips" below.
Click the clip volume button (shown below), and then drag the slider to adjust the volume.
Tip: You can also type a new percentage in the field next to the clip volume button to adjust volume.
You can also make finer audio adjustments within a clip. For more information, see "Fading audio up or down."
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Audio levels of added audio go wonky after burn

My final stage of imovie production is adding the soundtrack. I have done this with great success using idvd 4 and 5 in the past. However, I recently upgraded to 06 and problems emerged.
When I preview my imovie, everything is perfect, audio sounds great with nice audio fades and mixes. BUT, after I send it to idvd and then burn it, those fades and mixes are no longer smooth. In transition between clip, the audio level of the added material jumps way up then abrubltly goes away. As well, as an added song fades away to zero level, at the end it momentarily jumps back up to full volume and I cant even see why this is happening when I go back to imovie and look at the levels.
I have tried not fading songs through clip transitions, but I still get such problems, as I just described. This is very puzzling as I have faded audio through video transition in the past with ease. As well, I have a small side buisness where I sell my finished product and I haven't made a movie yet, since I 'upgraded' several months ago without experiencing these extrememly frustrating audio problems.
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Steve

Hello, steviesteve,
John is right....in the iMovie discussions there are lots of messages regarding sound problems in burned DVDs. Sound is fine in iMovie....no fixes, some work-arounds you might try. Sorry I don't have the exact links, but you can do a search in iMovie 6.
Try these: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=333937&tstart=50
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1577936&#1577936
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1981566&#1981566
If you don't find help in these, start a new topic there.

Editing Original Audio?

I thought this would be simple, and it probably is but I'm lost.
I have a short video clip loaded into iMovie. I do not want to add any audio but I do want to fade out the pre-existing audio that came with the clip.
iMovie will let me edit the entire clip volume levels etc. but I just want to select the last 5 seconds of video and fade it out or, preferably, silence it.
From what I can tell there is no way to view the audio track.
If I load the clip into GarageBand the audio is automatically separated into it's own track, which is perfect, however GarageBand, from what I can tell, exports in lower quality than iMovie.
I have watched a ton of videos and read a bunch of threads and can't figure this one out.
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Double-click on the clip to open the Inspector. Or click on the gear icon at the start of the clip and select Audio Adjustments - this will also open the Inspector. In the Inspector (Audio tab) you will see options to Fade In and Fade Out. The timing of the fades is set using the slider - just drag this to the desired duration. Make sure that you click Done at the lower right of the Inspector, otherwise the setting may not be saved by iMovie.
Note that I haven't used iMovie '09 for a while, but if I recall correctly, the method is much the same as in iMovie '11. However, iMovie '11 has vastly better controls for audio editing, such as waveforms and the ability to drag volume levels up and down for sections of audio clips and video clips ("rubber banding"). Also, there are extra options for fading audio, such as being able to drag the volume levels inwards to create the fade in or out.
John
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Volume gain fluctuation problem in iPad(random decreasing/increasing volume) with audio monitoring enabled.

I have one bass track and a drums track picked from loops and when playing the guitar(iPad2 with apogee jam connected) with monitoring enabled I get gain fluctuation problems(random decreasing/increasing volume, some times mute). When I stop playing the guitar audio feedback gets back to normal.
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Hi George Ward2
I'm wondering if you accidentally or unintentionally locked the audio in a segment/s where you intended to fade up or down. Altho you say it plays fine when you review it in iMovie. The place to review it is in iDVD. However adjustments are made in iMovie for the actual audio and video. Here's what I found in the Help Menu for iMovie since there isn't much info on the iDVD portion of the help menu for the same symptoms:
Making your movie louder or softer:
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To make your movie louder or softer:
Click the Timeline Viewer button (shown above).
Select the clip or clips whose volume you want to change in the timeline viewer.
Tip: To learn how to select multiple clips, see "Selecting clips" below.
Click the clip volume button (shown below), and then drag the slider to adjust the volume.
Tip: You can also type a new percentage in the field next to the clip volume button to adjust volume.
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DVD - Fails After Burn

Please help,
I have tried two DVDr's now and the same problem.
I have put together a dvd with slideshows created in idvd, added music from itunes to the 4 chapters, plus the main title screen.
The project info is as follows.
3.8mb of 4.7, so there is enough free space.
However when the burn has done, we pop the finished disk in the DVD, title screen works fine, menu / chapter works fine, but the disk then fails in the same place in each of the slideshows ( About 15 minutes in )
I have used Sony DVDr's 16x and Maxwell DVDr's 16x.
Any help would be gratefully received as we have family waiting for this disk back in the U.K and U.S.
Thanks.

To add the music within iPhoto, create a playlist of the songs you wish to use. Then select _that playlist_, not the individual titles, for your slideshow.
To add music within iMovie, follow the directions from Help:
*Adding music from your iTunes library*
You can give your movie a musical soundtrack by importing music from your iTunes library.
To import music from iTunes:
1. Click the Timeline Viewer button.
2. Drag the playhead (B, shown above) to the frame where you want the music track to begin.
Tip: To precisely adjust the playhead position, press the Left or Right Arrow key to move the playhead one frame at a time. To move the playhead in ten-frame increments, hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow key.
3. Click the Media button, and then click Audio.
4. Choose your iTunes library or a playlist at the top of the Audio pane.
5. Select a song from the list.
Tip: You can also search for a song by typing text in the search field. As you type, songs that contain the text you entered appear in the Audio pane. To see all songs again, click the Reset button (an "x" in the search field).
6. If you want, click the Play button to the left of the search field to listen to the song you selected.
7. Click "Place at Playhead."
The song appears as an audio clip in the timeline viewer.
If you want to lock the track to a particular part of the video, choose Advanced > "Lock Audio Clip at Playhead." When you move a video clip with locked audio, the audio clip moves with the video.
You can also adjust the volume of an audio clip, change its length, and more. For more information, see Related Topics below.
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Please Help! My transitions are fading too much audio out!

Hello all,
I am still using the old iMovie 08. I am just making a simple video, but in certain trasitions btwn clips, the transition is cutting off too much of the audio at the end of the clip right b4 the transition begins. I have tried playing with the "set duration" function on the transition, but it is not working out properly, and doesnt chop exactly where you want it to b/c its trying to blend all the 3 pieces together so it looks like it averages them out, chopping out whatever amounts it wants from each of the 3 pieces. It basically makes it so you can't hear the last couple words from the speaker right as the transition is starting.
-Is there anyway to edit the transition properties and either turn off audio fading right b4 the transition -OR- to at least adjust down the amount of audio it cuts into at the end of my clip prior to the transition?
-Or is the only thing that u can edit on transitions is the "set duration"? THANKS!!

It's regrettable that you deleted files without having backed them up first. The first thing you need to do is back up what's left of your data. You can do that with Time Machine or by other means, but you need an external hard drive to hold the data.
Whatever you did delete without backups is most likely gone forever. You could send your hard drive to a data-recovery firm, but the service will be very expensive and may not recover anything. The less you do with the computer before then, the better the chance of success.
The iPhoto library is corrupted and you won't be able to open it. You may be able to extract what's left of the images, but first you have to back up.

Disabling audio fading in iMovie '09

Whenever you drag in or split up a clip in iMovie '09, it automatically applies to a half-second fade-in and fade-out on the ends of the clip to the audio. I do editing that relies a lot on finesse, word splicing, etc. and it is annoying to have to ctrl-click each video or audio clip, go to audio settings, and click off the fading. Is there a way to make it default to having NO fading? (0.0 seconds). The lowest I seem to be able to make it as a default is 0.5.

If you have to do this to a lot of clips, you may be able to do this with copy/paste. I haven't tried it for the audio fade so you will have to test it. Try this:
1) Select a clip. Open the inspector to the Audio Tab. Set to Manual and 0.00 fade.
2) Select the same clip. Select EDIT/COPY (or right-click/COPY)
3) Select EDIT/SELECT ALL
4) Select EDIT/PASTE ADJUSTMENTS/AUDIO ADJUSTMENTS
Worth a try.

Audio fading in on each slide - how do I stop this? HELP!

Running CP8 on a windows 8 machine.
Audio sounds FINE in cp, but then I preview or publish and view and suddenly the audio sounds like it is ramping up/ fading in on some slides. I don't get what's going on. There is no slide fade in, just the audio. HELP!
The client is so not going to accept this and I don't have any idea how to fix it.
Thanks.

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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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I've loaded the audio into my dvd slideshow using my itunes library. Is there any way to make the songs fade into each other so that there's not silence between the tracks? I know how to do that on itunes, but it doesn't translate into idvd when I use my playlist there. Please help!

Ok Update
Just started new project. Small test one, added sample music track, faded it out by 3 secs at the end. Works fine.
Now my other project that I have been working two days on is 30 minutes long, with loads of clips that have been meticulously edited by way of video, but not audio, does not work.
I have no music added to it yet, but when I try, I add the itunes track, and Inspector it, choose manual Fade out by 3 seconds or something longer, and click done.
Then go to preview the end of that clip near the end of the music, and the music stops abruptly as if nothing has been changed.
Whats different about this project to the new one just created????
NOTHING
Someone must have some answers please, as its getting tedious and unless someone can tell me how to start a new project, and transfer ALL the above clips to it to start afresh, then I am going to have to wait for your guys help....
I thank you...

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