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Audio

Adjust clip gain, fades, pitch and per-clip EQ, record a voiceover, and clean up silence and filler words.

Adjust a clip

Select a video or audio clip, expand Audio in Properties, then choose Volume, Pitch, or Equalizer. A linked video edits its matching audio companion.

ControlRange
Gain-60 dB to +12 dB (−60 dB effectively mutes the clip)
Fade In / Fade Out0 to 5 seconds each
PitchSemi Tones and Cents, independent of speed

Pitch and tone

  • The Pitch controls shift pitch without changing clip speed. To change speed instead, expand Playback and use Speed.
  • The Equalizer tab keeps the complete six-band response graph, presets, enable/reset controls, filter types, frequency, gain, Q, and output controls.

Record a voiceover

The Record voiceover (microphone) button in the timeline toolbar records narration in time with your project. Capture runs while the timeline plays, and the finished take lands on a new audio track anchored to the playhead position where you started.

  1. Move the playhead to where the voiceover should begin.
  2. Click the microphone button — the timeline starts playing and recording begins.
  3. Use Pause recording to stop the playhead and mic together, Resume recording to continue, and Stop and save to finish and drop the clip onto a new audio track.
  4. Click Cancel recording (the ✕) to discard the take without adding anything.

Open Microphone settings (the ▾ next to the button) to choose an input device and tune capture. The level meter there is live, so you can check your mic before recording.

SettingWhat it does
Noise suppressionReduces steady background noise. On by default.
Auto gainKeeps your voice at a consistent level. On by default.
Mute timeline while recordingSilences the timeline monitor so speaker audio does not bleed into the mic. On by default.
Sync offsetNudges the recorded clip earlier or later to compensate for input latency (up to ±1000 ms).

Clean up dialogue

  • Remove Silence finds silent ranges and cuts them; the Minimum Silence setting controls how long a gap must be, and the dialog estimates how much will be removed.
  • Remove Filler Words detects words like um and uh from the transcript and audio and removes them.
  • Both tools show the ranges they will remove so you can preview before applying the edit.