User Manual

Recording Voice-Over Narration
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Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect
You can use the Audio Loop Play button to create or change an EQ effect while a clip is playing.
Use the same procedure as described in “Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Volume Effect”
on page 809.
If the clip has no existing EQ effect before you start, you do not hear any changes until you click
the Audio Loop Play button to stop and replay the effect.
As you adjust the EQ values on an existing EQ effect, you might not hear the results
immediately. It takes a few seconds for the changes to be applied to the clip.
You can improve the response time by doing any of the following:
• Monitor as few audio tracks as possible.
• Deselect the video track, if practical.
• Use In and Out points to choose a narrow interval to adjust.
Recording Voice-Over Narration
You can use the Audio Punch-in tool to record audio directly into the Timeline for voice-over
narration.
Recording voice-over narration directly into your Avid editing application saves you the extra
steps of recording the narration to tape first, capturing the narration audio to your Avid system,
and then editing the audio clip into the sequence.
Hardware Connections for Voice-Over Recording
Before you can record voice-over narration, you need to connect a microphone or other input
device to your system. The following are typical examples:
• Connect a microphone to a mixer, and connect the mixer to the audio interface I/O device on
your Avid system.
• Connect a microphone to an external audio device — for example, one of the Mbox family
devices — and connect the device to your Avid editing system.
• Connect a microphone to a microphone preamplifier, and connect the preamplifier to the
audio interface I/O device on your Avid system.
For information on connecting the hardware, see “Using the Avid Input/Output Hardware” in the
Help.