Sound in Videoporama

# General presentation
Sound in Videoporama

### Sound in Videoporama

Videoporama manage three sound tracks :

- Two editable soundtrack containing music or audio comment
- The track containing sound of video clip

Both tracks are mixed, that means that the sounds of both tracks are played at the same time. It's possible to adjust relative level of each sound object from one to another. This can be made by define the gain to apply to sound object on the original level (in plus or minus).
Remarks :

- If the duration of the mixed soundtrack is shorter than the duration of the project, the end of the project is played without music.
- If the duration of the mixed soundtrack is longer than the duration of the project, the music is cut at the end by the project and a fade out of one second is applied (the volume of the music decreases gradually up to complete stop).

### Main sound editing window

To access the sound editing window, click on the button in the montage option tab.
The main sound editing window is compose of :

- The diaporama timeline but in correct time scale. The different sequences are displayed with the transition in yellow background, the core sequence in green background and with an image thumbnail over each sequence.
- There's two editable audio soundtracks
- The video soundtrack automatically filled with video soundtrack
- An audio player to listen the selected sound object or the full audio montage.

The diaporama length is displayed on top right corner as well as the time of soundtrack.

### Compose soundtrack

Each editable soundtrack can be filled by three different sound object types :

- Sound file (.wav, .mp3, .ogg, .flac)
- Recored sequence (Recording from Videoporama)
- Silence object

The main actions are :

- To add a sound object to one editable soundtrack, click on the button in front of the wanted soundtrack.
- By default, the new sound object will be added after the selected sound object (displayed with blue background if it'ssound file or recorded sound, or in yellow background for silence one) or at the end of soundtrack.
- To delete the selected sound object, click on the button.
- To edit an existing sound object, double click on it and the sound editor window open
- To cut a sound object at main cursor position, click on the in front of the soundtrack where the sound object to cut is in.
- To split a sound object in two sound object at main cursor position, click on the in front of the soundtrack where the sound object to cut is in.
- To listen a sound file, select it and listen it by using the sound player at bottom

The editable soundtrack are limited to the duration of diaporama montage.
The specific option of each sound object type are explained in detail in the sound editor page.
When the sound montage is finished, it's possible to listen it by pressing the button, wait until the construct process is done and then listen by pressing the play button in the audio player section.

### Using sound in Videoporama

- The background music is globally defined for the project in the Tab Montage Options of Videoporama.

### See also

- Sequences
- Sound editor