Operation Manual

218 Pinnacle Studio 9
digital signal – ensure that the meter level never quite
reaches the top of the bar.
The fade buttons s produce a fade-in from or a fade-
out to the current position of the movie. For a visual
confirmation of their effect, watch the behavior of the
clip’s volume adjustment line when the fade buttons
are clicked. The fade duration is variable from zero to
fifty-nine seconds. Adjust it in the Edit options panel
(Setup ¾ Edit) under Volume fades. Fades are not
available too close to the beginning or end of a clip.
The balance control
This control has two modes, stereo and surround,
which you select from the dropdown list above the
control.
In either mode, the position of each track at each point
in the movie is shown by a corresponding speaker icon.
The icon matches the one on the muting indicator for
the corresponding track.
In stereo mode, you set the position of the track by
dragging its speaker icon left and right between a pair
of main speakers:
The original audio track (L) and the background
music track (R), on opposite sides of a stereo mix.
The sound effect and voice-over track icon is shown
as a gray outline (left of center), indicating either
that the track has been muted or that there is no clip
on the track at the current time index.
In surround mode, you can position each track from
front to back (“fade”) as well as from left to right