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19 – 454 The Audio Montage
The clips that cause ducking must be located completely inside the time
range of the clip to which ducking is applied.
If the clip(s) that cause ducking contain silent passages, ducking will not
work properly. These clips have to be edited so that each phrase is a sepa-
rate clip without any silence. This is because it is not the signal level that
activates the ducking, but the clip itself.
When “Duck according to other track” is performed it is applied to one clip
at a time. If the music (in our example) consists of several clips that have
been spliced together, only one of the clips will be ducked by the voice-
over. One solution is to repeat the function for each clip, another is to use
the “Render” function (see “Mixing down – The Render function on page
527) in the Master Section to create a specific (single) file from the separate
clips, and re-import this as a new clip in the Montage.
Proceed as follows:
1. Place the clips containing the music and the voice-over on separate adja-
cent tracks.
Make sure the voice-over clips are located inside the time range of the music clip.
The three voice-over clips on the upper track are placed inside the time range of the
music bed on the track below.