Audio Effects in Avid

In this week’s tutorial we learnt about adding audio effects to edits. We were first told to download video and audio clips from blackboard. The video was a clip from the film Delicatessen, which I had never seen before. 

With the sound effects and video we were told that by the end we had to create a clip that has sound and makes sense. The first thing I did was watch the clip in full. In doing so it was pointed out that a part of the clip, the camera goes through a small pipe. This meaning we would have to add a reverb effect to any sounds that were happening.  From the notes I have taken the instruction to use the audio mix was as follows;

Adjust audio in bin

• Right click in bin > apply gain > ‘type value for adjustment’

Using the Audio Mixer

1. If you select Window > workspace > Audio editing, the audio mixer will be brought up as standard but you can also choose the audio mixer from the tools menu.
2. Selecting‘s’ – solo or ‘m’ – mute, in the audio mixer will also correlate this to the timeline.
3. You can select the number of tracks you are viewing and the ‘groups of 4’ that you want to work on.
4. Select and drag left or right to pan (if you try to move cursor around the wheel this won’t work)
5. Join tracks together to adjust them all at the same time with the ‘group’ button