Using Keyframes to control vary volume on audio clips

[Chuck Carr]

Chuck, Steve and Dave,

Thank you so much for your guidance in helping me slay the keyframe beast! My project is now complete and the audio behaves itself the way I want it to. Regarding the overlap of the "native or ambient" sound of a video clip and the audio clip that I used, I found it easier to just split the audio clip at the beginning and end of the video clip and "clear" it. I used all three methods for fading out.

I have started a new project tp create a slide show in Photoshop Elemenets 7.0. How do you created titles in Photoshop? It's so easy in PREL.

Thanks again!

Best regards, Chuck Carr

PS Steve, I checked out your book and will be acquiring it from Amazon.

[Chuck Engels]

Great News Chuck !!
Happy to hear you have got it all working

You can start a new topic on creating titles in Photoshop Elements, basically you start from scratch and add all of your components as separate layers, images, text, sytles, etc. It is a lot more work but you get exactly the results you are wanting. You can also edit existing titles, that is sometimes easier just like editing existing DVD Templates.

If you look in the Premiere Elements folder; C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 (for version 7) you will find lots of graphics you can use, check inside these folders;
Movie Themes, DVD Templates, Presets (this is where all the titles are located, under Templates) and Document Templates for starters. Version 9 has a Clip Arts folder with lots of graphics you can use.

[Dave McElderry]

Chuck, glad all is well. I've also used the "split clip" method, and in fact have a project I'm working on at the moment with which this is the easiest and quickest way to get the desired results. The more involved method that I described is useful when you need to have precise control over the levels, where and when they raise or lower, and how quickly they do so. Keep it in mind for later work.

As a side note that you (or others) might be interested in, I've been editing interviews. Naturally there are many places in which the interviewee uses "uhs" or "ums" while they gather a thought. I've been splitting the clip just before the "um" and just after it, and then just removing the audio entirely. All you see is the person's mouth move slightly with no sound coming out, which doesn't really look unnatural at all. The only issue is that in some cases there is background noise in the recording, and removing the audio entirely sounds strange because the background noise disappears too. I've solved this by finding another part of the same interview in which there was no sound except for background noise, copying a snippet, and pasting in a separate audio track to fill the dead space where I removed the "um." The result is incredible. It works really well.

I'm sure you'll find Steve's book to be of great value. He does good work.