 Guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. This is going to be a video today looking at the key frameable volume option on Caden Live and explaining why that's useful and just to also offer another way of doing this. This being you have two audio tracks in Caden Live and one of them is background music so I've just grabbed a bit of background music there from the YouTube audio library, the free music and the second one is narration. So when you have two audio tracks you may want to change the level of that background music so that at certain parts of the video it's the main audio source and in other parts of the video when your talent or subject is talking it becomes background audio because if it's playing at full volume you're not going to be able to hear the narration. So in order to show how this works I've put together a little timeline here based on a video I shot earlier in the week in Tel Aviv. It's me eating at an Indian restaurant and talking. So here's what I've laid out on the timeline. Just going to scrub through it here. I have a b-roll shot of the exterior of the restaurant nothing much going on there just showing what it looks like a little title. Then I talk for a little bit and then we have the same clip on the other side. Now this is me the audio here me speaking and I'm going to play a second of it. Now the problem we have here is that it's very difficult to hear me because of the background music. So I'm going to show you what I would consider a less ideal way of doing this and a better way of doing this. So the first thing I'm going to do is for this b-roll footage of the exterior of the restaurant I'm going to ungroup the audio and the video for that. I'm just going to actually delete the audio track so there's going to be no audio coming from the actual camera here we're just going to have the background music. So again I've done the same process ungroup that clip press the lead key and now for the start of this video we just have the background music and I'm going to just do a little bit of fading in on the intro and I'm going to do a little bit of fading out on the outro of this clip right so so far so good. Now I'm going to call this the dumb way to do it because this is how I've been doing it for the most part. I would I'm going to zoom in a little bit here I would clip the audio where I want it to go down and clip the audio here and try to match it ideally to the exact frame that's pretty much it. So now I've clipped my background audio track audio to here is the music so I'm just going to give it a name to make this more clear and what it would do then is go into audio effects and you should see a gain setting and drag that on to the background music at the part of the intermediate clip where it's playing alongside the narration and then I would turn the gain down to something like 15 and I just listen with reference headphones to the audio and you know play around with the percentage until it's perfect the audio isn't too quiet but it's not so loud that it gets in the way of the narration. So that sounds good enough for the purpose of this demo so that is methodology one. Now what I'm going to do is actually go back a little bit I'm going to undo my work here I'm going to get rid of the gain and I'm going to get rid of the cutting and now we're back to kind of the start. Now what you can do as well is if you go into your audio effects the very last option under volume and dynamics is called volume key frameable. So I'm going to drag the key frameable volume onto the background music okay. Now I'm going to click onto that clip and we can see that we're able to key frame the gain. Now the advantage of this over the first method if you have remember what we did was we got rid of the music then we put the gain down to like 20% and then back to 100 so those transitions from 100 to 20 in the space of one frame it's going to it's going to be very stark there's not going to be really much subtlety to it. So we don't need to key frame the start what I can do is add a key frame a little bit before the narration comes in on the key frameable volume I'm going to add one here then a little bit after now you can play around with the best way to do this and I'm going to bring the gain all the way down to now I like the way it visually represents this right you can see well it's going to be pretty much full here and I listen to this so you can play around again with that floor is the floor too low perhaps minus 10 is better and then on the other side here we're going to want to bring the audio back up as we're coming to the end of the clip and we're fading back to that little bit of b-roll so I'm going to again click on the background music track and I'm going to add another key frame here I'm going to add a key frame just after the b-roll comes in and I can actually either create gain I can type zero decibels so there's no gain reduction or I can drag the advantage of dragging is you can be a bit more granular but I don't want to increase the gain to positive I just want to increase gain to zero db and that can be a little bit hard and finicky when you're doing with the timeline one cool thing is if that sounds too if it sounds too abrupt I can make this a more gradual gain increase by moving this forward a bit and moving this to the end a bit or if it sounds too gradual in other words I want the background music to come up quicker I can make that slope shorter so let's listen to this now and there you go so I've faded back to the music and now I can do fade out of the video so those are the two ways in kaden live I know of there may be others if you have two different audio tracks one of that one of those tracks is your background music track the other track is your narration and you want to bring down the music for a little bit and then bring it up for a little bit you can either directly apply gain cut up your background audio and put gain on either side it's going to work but the jumps might sound a bit too jumpy so if you want to do it in a more smooth way check out the key frameable volume effect and this can allow you to go very very granular in making those volume jumps with your background audio track hope this video is useful if you're a kaden live user thank you for watching if you'd like to get more videos for me about kaden live tech and many other subjects please consider subscribing to this youtube channel thank you for watching