Audio Ducking

[Antois]

If I don't want audio ducking should I set the ducking level to 0% or 100%?

I noticed unwanted audio ducking in my rendered video while it was not there in the project version of the video.

[Davidk]

Audio ducking is an applied "feature": click the audio clip and apply it (select from the list). If you don't want it, then either remove it from the affected audio (since there does not seem to be any 'remove option, you may have to delete the whole audio clip, and then re-apply it without ducking: or alternatively - if you have caught it quickly enough - use the undo feature in the main edit item of the tool bar), or (strongly recommended) do not apply it. I've never heard of it being applied during render when it was not in the project file.

There's been a lot of comment on audio ducking for various versions of VS, a lot of it critical: search the board for details.

[Antois]

Thank you for your information Davidk.

I did not apply any audio ducking and still heard that the volume of the music track decreased at certain points with louder noises at the videotrack. This ducking was not in the project file but it was in the rendered file. When I right-clicked the file at the music track I saw that all ducking settings had already a value so I thought this ducking was applied automatically by the Corel software.

[tletter]

there does not seem to be any 'remove option, you may have to delete the whole audio clip, and then re-apply it without ducking

Audio ducking can be removed using the "Reset Volume" option.

If I don't want audio ducking should I set the ducking level to 0% or 100%?

Audio ducking is an option that you decide to apply or not, i.e. it's not automatically applied.

I noticed unwanted audio ducking in my rendered video while it was not there in the project version of the video

How do you know that audio ducking was applied to your rendered video?

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[Antois]

Since there is no checkmark at the item audioducking in Video Studio you cannot see whether audio ducking has been applied or not. I do not use it and I do not want to use it. It is not there in the project file and still it is there in the rendered file.

And now I know why: It's the video player which applies the unwanted audio ducking!

It's there playing the file with Potplayer and it is not there playing the file with VLC. So the mediaplayer you use is an important factor in how you see and hear the videofile. Sorry I blamed Corel for this. The item audio ducking however cannot be found in the dozens settings of Potplayer.

[Davidk]

If ducking is being applied by your player, is it correct, or not? By that I mean when ducking is used, it should be reducing the volume of a background sound so that a sound clip, usually a voiceover but there's nothing to insist it has to be - could be a sound effect, has more "prominence", ie is not drowned out by the background.
An illustration of this . . I once made an introductory video using a train station as a background scene. Ducking enabled me to mute (not entirely eliminate) the background sharp clashing noises of trains - sharp squealing noises of brakes, thunder of rolling stock in motion etc - so they were just a low level background to the voiceover of the speaker, not drowning it out.
If the player ducking is what you want - you seem to be golden. Note how to use it, as you may have to do that again. If it's not what you want, a query to the player software vendor is probably in order.