It continues working in the background so as you add, delete, or move clips around the timeline, the volume envelope will adjust by itself. Instead of just looking at the in and out points of each dialogue clip, Auto-Ducking analyzes the audio signal inside each clip and adjusts the music appropriately. Powered by Adobe Sensei, our artificial intelligence and machine learning initiative, Music clips can now automatically generate clip volume keyframes that automatically reduce the volume when dialogue, sound effects, and other audio elements are present. With this release of Audition CC, we’ve introduced Auto-Ducking as part of the Essential Sound workflows.

These methods can usually achieve the best results, but they also take a lot of work, a lot of time, or a lot of technical know-how. Audition already offers several methods to suit individual tastes and styles: manually adjusting clip volume keyframes, riding a volume fader up and down and capturing these movements as automation, or even setting up a complex side-chain input compressor chain.

The art of mixing, of adjusting the volume of background music so that dialogue or sound effects are clear and audible, is often what separates the professional-sounding projects from amateurs. One of the most time-consuming tasks that any editor faces is ensuring the different elements of their project blend well and get out of the way of everything else.

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