Narration barely audible

Mike Warren · Post by **Mike Warren** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:17 am

On Studio 10, I narrated my film documetary. However, the microphone sound level, before rendering, is so low I can hardly hear myself. So I used sound filters to amplify the sound of my voice on the timeline. Okay, that's one bandaid. But... my problem is not over. I render my film documentary and burn to DVD. But when I play back, I note the narration volume is okay in places while barely audible again in other places, exactly the way it was before I added sound filter to amplify volumn. But when I checked the original (before rendering) the volumn was okay, boasted by the sound filter. But... not after rendering??? And why is volumn so low that I must use sound filter to begin with? Thanks for what ever help you can give. Mike

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:33 am

The sound is not recorded by VS but by your audio device, whatever that is

You have, in all likelyhood, reduced the volume for the mic input to a minimum. Increase the input level for your mic and try again.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:52 am

Heinz is talking about the audio controls in the Windows audio master control (the little speaker icon in the system tray in bottom right).

Now for my part, I never use the internal audio recorder in VS. I had similar problems to yours when I started out with VS7 5 years or so ago. Then I started to use a third party audio program (Nero Wave Editor) and found I could control lots more things about my narration and overall audio through that; apply filters to make my voice sound more natural; trim added music; trim out some unwanted audio; etc etc. Now I use this third party software exclusively, even though I know the audio controls in VS 9 and 10+ are so much better than what I started with in VS7.

And of course, apart from Nero, there are a variety of other sound editors out there, including free ones like Audacity...