Adjusting Audio Volume

Movie Maker offers two types of audio adjustments. The first are clip-specific adjustments that apply only to the selected clip. These include muting a clip, or turning the audio off completely, fading the audio in and fading it out, and adjusting the volume. Movie Maker also enables track-specific adjustments that apply to the Audio or Audio/Music track over the entire production.

To demonstrate clip-level adjustments, I'll refer to the clip I speeded up to double time in Chapter 11, which showed the party participants traveling from the third-floor playroom to the dining room to eat the cake (see “Using Playback Speed as an Effect” in Chapter 11). Because I increased the speed, I have to mute the Audio track because it ...

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