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Adjust volume and panning audio

Balancing the volume and panning of your content's audio can significantly enhance the overall production quality. You can adjust the volume and pan audio from the audio section of the editor's sidebar.

Adjusting volume

Script and layer volume

  1. Select your script, video, or audio layer, depending on what you want to adjust. Click to learn more about viewing properties.
  2. Adjust the volume from the Audio section of the sidebar. You can click and drag the slide bar or click on the volume box and type in a value.

Screenshot showing adjusting volume in Descript

Individual clip volume

If you've made edits to your script or layer, you can adjust the volume of individual clips.

  1. Select a clip in the script or a layer. Double-click to select individual clips in a video or audio layer.
  2. Adjust the clip's volume from the Audio section of the sidebar.

Muting audio

If you want to mute your script, a layer, or a clip, simply click Mute icon Mute next to the volume slider.

Panning audio

  1. Select your script, video, or audio layer, depending on what you want to adjust. Click to learn more about viewing properties.
  2. Adjust the pan from the Audio section of the sidebar. Click and drag the 2023-03-24_13-55-04.png Panning knob, or click the panning knob and type in a value in the textbox.

Screenshot showing how to pan audio in Descript

Individual track volume and panning in sequences

This is still done from the sidebar, but you'll need to open the Sequence editor. You can open a sequence in the sequence editor by selecting it in the timeline can clicking Shift + Command + O (Mac) or Shift + Control + O (Windows). Then, select a track and adjust volume or panning from the sidebar. Click here to learn more about sequences.

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