Known Participant

Answered

How can I make make all clips in multitrack the same volume without clicking and dragging?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
March 16, 2018
4 replies
11184 views

I have tons of clips in the multitrack and want to make all the volume levels (not gain levels) set to 0 db.

Is there an easy way to do that without clicking and dragging all 500 clips?

This topic has been closed for replies.

Correct answer _durin_

If you don't mind going scorched earth on keyframes, or getting your hands a little dirty with a text editor and Regular Expressions, you should be able to remove all of those quickly and easily.

Save the session .sesx file, then open it in an advanced text editor like Sublime Text. These should offer the ability to perform a Find & Replace using regex which are sort of template-driven searches for text. If you want to wipe out all keyframes on all clips and tracks, this example should work. Audition's .sesx file format is fairly human-readable XML, so searching for:

.*<parameterKeyframe sampleOffset=.*

should find each instance of a keyframe.

However, that doesn't really explain why you'd end up with so many volume keyframes. The Essential Sound panel doesn't generate any keyframe information. The Clip Volume keyframes that show up when sending to Audition would be based on any keyframes in the standard Volume effect for every audio effect in Premiere. I don't think anything else would be translated as clip volume keyframes when importing to Audition.

B

Bankole5EC7

Participant

Export your session to FCP XML interchange format,then re-open the new project. And boom all level parameters are back to default.

B

Brandon33169476emv1

Participant

This worked perfectly! Very quick, all volume keyframes gone, all "yellow lines"/"rubber bands" set to 0.

O

ozworldz

Inspiring

I know exactly what you're talking about. I just mixed a track but I have to ship the raw file to someone else without volume envelopes. Here is what I did. I haven't tried it with multiple tracks but for me, this got the job done.

Right click on a keyframe, "Select all keyframes," Right click again, "Delete selected keyframes." Easy as that. You may have to drag the clip volume envelope to "0" if it isn't there already but you can get all of your clips back to zero this way. I was very happy to find this solution.

_durin_

Correct answer

Community Manager

If you don't mind going scorched earth on keyframes, or getting your hands a little dirty with a text editor and Regular Expressions, you should be able to remove all of those quickly and easily.

Save the session .sesx file, then open it in an advanced text editor like Sublime Text. These should offer the ability to perform a Find & Replace using regex which are sort of template-driven searches for text. If you want to wipe out all keyframes on all clips and tracks, this example should work. Audition's .sesx file format is fairly human-readable XML, so searching for:

.*<parameterKeyframe sampleOffset=.*

should find each instance of a keyframe.

However, that doesn't really explain why you'd end up with so many volume keyframes. The Essential Sound panel doesn't generate any keyframe information. The Clip Volume keyframes that show up when sending to Audition would be based on any keyframes in the standard Volume effect for every audio effect in Premiere. I don't think anything else would be translated as clip volume keyframes when importing to Audition.

Aegretudo

Participant

This solution worked EXACTLY as needed, and should be labeled the answer for addressing keyframes on multiple clip 'rubber bands' across a whole file. I've had this issue for years with importing Premiere OMF from various editors, and it has always been an incredibly tedious task either requesting an OMF with clip attributes removed, or manually removing keyframes by hand.

One additional step I needed to do beyond what is outlined above is resetting all adjustments to the volume parameterValue - which in VS Code was as simple as searching for all occurrences of:

<parameter index="0" name="volume" parameterValue=

opting to "Change all occurrences", press shift+end, and then replace all with:
<parameter index="0" name="volume" parameterValue="1"/>

Hope this helps someone who may still be struggling with this!

[Mod note - Durin's answer is now marked as correct]

ryclark

Participating Frequently

Two fairly easy methods. Either try Match Loudness from the Clip menu. Or from the Edit menu use Batch Process. there you can drop all your audio files and use one of the Normalize Favorites.

OrfAuthor

Known Participant

Thank you for your response. Match Loudness is not what I'm looking for and the clips are already in a multitrack / I don't want to mess with the original audio files. I just want to set the clip level/volume to a default 0 db.

In Premiere all you have to do is right click - select "remove attributes" - and have "volume" checked. It's that simple.

Is there a way to do this in Audition? If not there should be.

ryclark

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately I am not a Premiere user so I am not sure exactly what you are after in Audition. What is it with your clips in the Audition's Multitrack that is not correct level wise? I am not sure exactly what you mean by 'set clip level/volume to default 0dB'. In the thread title you mention 'clicking and dragging'. What would you be clicking and dragging in order to do what you want?

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded