What’s the best way to set volume for background music?
Background music can help keep a video more engaging, but it’s easy for the music to overpower narration or other foreground sounds.
There are a few different methods to bring your audio to a good level. And you don’t need to be an audio engineer to use them!
In this short video from Jason Yadlovski, you’ll learn about:
- 0:00 Setting Levels for Background Music
- 0:32 Quick Answer with NO EXTRA TIPS
- 2:10 Manually Set One Level for Entire Song
- 5:42 Set Levels with Keyframes
- 7:15 Automatic Levels – Audio Ducking
Now go find some great music and make something awesome!
Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.