I am such a rookie at this. I'm trying to record playing a game with game audio on one audio track and commentary on a 2nd audio track. I have such problems trying to balance the volume of game vs mic if I try to do this on one track. Just can't get the balance right, game always comes out too loud vs mic volume. I've been successful recording both these tracks separately in OBS but after that I don't know what to do with the recording. I can play back the recording (mp4) but only hear one track at a time and have to manually switch between them in the player (Potplayer) to hear which ever one I select. Ideally I would want to edit and play around with the volumes on both tracks to get a balance I can accept and then merge the adjusted tracks to get a finished product with both tracks playing in the recording at the same time, rebalanced. I just have no idea how to do this. I can't tell you how many youtube videos I've watched to try to find one that explains this procedure in simple detail that I can understand. Seems they all figure you already know how to do this. (I do have Vegas Pro for editing purposes if that is sufficient). Any help guiding me in this will be much appreciated.
Question / Help Merging Audio after recording
- Thread starter Mike89
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Recordings with multiple audio tracks are used for editing, not for playing. You must import those recordings (.mp4) into the video editor and adjust the volume levels.
Import the recordings into Vegas and you'll see the different audio tracks. Just edit and adjust the volume of each audio track and then export your edit. The exported video will have only one audio track.
Import the recordings into Vegas and you'll see the different audio tracks. Just edit and adjust the volume of each audio track and then export your edit. The exported video will have only one audio track.
koala
Active Member
Depending on your style of speaking, it may also be useful to do some postprocessing to your commentary track. Normalizing would be the most important thing. Normalizing will make all parts of your speech of equal volume. If you shouted at some point, that part will lowered, so it is not distorted and if you spoke very low at some other point, that part will be amplified so it is as loud as everything else. Vegas has such postprocessing function.
I'm having a problem not knowing how to save the result of changing the volume of both tracks in vegas and then exporting it back to an mp4 with one track. When I click file export, I don't see any option for mp4. Please bear with me, I'm just straight up dumb on editing. Recording both tracks was the easy part. Editing them and then getting it back into an mp4 on a single track to play everything is confounding me. I'm trying to make a KSP video and right now I feel like I'm on the Mun without my spaceship. My mic is floating away into space and I'm stranded. Someone please send up a ship to get me.
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Sorry, in Vegas you have to use the option named "Render as ..."
You can watch this video if you have any doubts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQ6640Pp24
You can watch this video if you have any doubts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQ6640Pp24
skts
New Member
If you want already has playable video and already has separated audio tracks for editing, in some case. Thats no problem.
- To track 1 put everything, what you want to hear in video when you played it. It must be track 1. Playing the video in basic video players use only audio track 1 to play. There can be more audio tracks, but in video player you hear only track 1.
- To track 2 you can put your microphone, nothing more.
- To track 3 you can put gameplay or system sounds (watching video), nothing more.