Prevent music from ducking.

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TonyCollinet Author

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Prevent music from ducking.

Hi

I've just edited my first movie on Ipad.

IOS 14.1

Imovie 2.3

It is a mix of still photos and video clips from Iphone. The music track is ducking during the video clips creating unpleasant steps in volume. I know I can mute the video clip audio, but I'd still like this to be quietly audible under the music.

Is there any way of preventing this? Or a way of promoting the music track so it is considered to be the voiceover track (which I believe doesn't duck)

Thanks.

iPad Pro, iPadOS 14

Posted on Nov 3, 2020 8:47 AM

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bleepbloop1809

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Dec 6, 2020 8:28 AM in response to TonyCollinet

I had this issue too and found a potential fix - i think you just have to make sure your audio is a 'foreground' audio. There is still slight volume lowering I found, but it's much better than before.

"Ducking lowers the volume of background music clips whenever there’s a video clip whose sound is playing at the same time.

You can choose which audio clips are in the background or foreground (you can have three foreground audio clips and one background audio clip playing at any given time).

Tap an audio clip in the timeline to reveal the inspector at the bottom of the screen.
Tap the Actions button , then tap Background or Foreground.

The colour of the clip changes to indicate whether it’s background music (green) or foreground audio (blue or purple)."

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