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

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March 16, 2018
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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?

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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.

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Bankole5EC7

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

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Brandon33169476emv1

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

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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_

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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

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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.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

How do I go to track automation controls and set them to "off"?

Still seems to me the lines on the clips are separate from the track automation controls, right? Otherwise I would be seeing the track fader move every time it goes by a clips with a line at a different level.

Ah, yes I should have made this clearer. In an individual clip, you get clip key-framing - that's the line that runs through a clip, and won't be shown as 'automation' as such. This shouldn't be a problem though, unless you've been altering the settings in individual clips deliberately. It's still not the same as clip 'gain' though - you can alter these settings without anything changing about that - it will still say 0dB whatever you do with them until you alter it specifically. The automation applies to the entire track, and is independent of the gain and the clip keyframe settings. You can see how to control the automation system (and make the automation visible as a separate track by expanding the track controls slightly until you see a twirl-down that defaults to 'Read'. If you twirl it, you'll get options to show as much or as little keyframe information as you want (bear in mind that there are a heck of a lot of things you can automate):

Here you can see all of this at once. The highlighted section still has a clip gain of 0dB, despite the clip key-framing set much lower, demonstrating that these aren't interlinked at all. And there are two clips at different levels (the first one being at 0dB), but only set by the clip key-framing. The automation track shown underneath is yellow (active) and will affect the whole track, regardless of what any clip key-framing does. Yes, you would be correct in assuming that it's possible for them to cancel each other out completely if set carefully... But, you only ever see the automation system moving faders in the mixer, not the key-framing (unless it's automation key-framing - that can drive the faders).

If you turn the automation off, the yellow line turns black:

The clip keyframing remains yellow though, and still active.

Should there be options to turn it all off in sections globally? I don't recall any requests to do so, although I can see some potential value in it. As it stands, the only option you can control globally (as I mentioned before) is the actual clip gain.

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