Hello,

I'm new to both Media Composer First and video/audio editing in general. I've tried looking at the documentation for this problem, but haven't found a solution.

I'm trying to apply the TimeShift effect in the AudioSuite to a segment of an audio track, but whenever I apply it, it is done to the entire track. I've tried marking a portion of the track with the In/Out markers but to no avail, so I think I'm misunderstanding how the In/Out markers work. Is there also a way to apply the TimeShift effect so that it is gradual? In other words, lets say I wanted to slow down a track by 50% but I want it to to descend down rather than being applied all at once.

Thanks for the help and assistance.

An Audio suite effect will apply to a whole clip. So you need to add edits to your audio track to create a seperate section. Then the Audio suite effect will aplly to just that section.

Thanks for help, that was my suspicion. Is there a way to apply TimeShift as a progression? Like instead of slowing an entire clip down by 50%, having it slow down gradually?

I don't think you can keyframe Audio suite plugins. You could break the clip up into lots of clips and then stagger the timeshift in each clip.

2uantumKid:

Thanks for help, that was my suspicion. Is there a way to apply TimeShift as a progression? Like instead of slowing an entire clip down by 50%, having it slow down gradually?

http://www.avid.com/plugins/vari-fi-audiosuite

(no idea if this is part of your FIRST stock FX, if it can even work outside of ProTools, but it sells for $7.99 and requires iLok2, it says)

If you can run the third-party software called AUDACITY, a popular, freeware Audio program, you can accomplish that "powered-down turntable" effect very quickly and with a minimum of effort.

After loading your audio into Audacity, it involves ADDing something called a "Time Track", then setting a range (100% or more to maybe as low as 0%) and then manipulating key frames with something they call the Envelope tool, inside that Time Track. Very point and click.

Then Exporting a WAV or if you have Audacity set up for it, an MP3.

There's certainly as way, in AVID, to build a whole bunch of Pitch-adjusted master clips... but it's not as simple to accomplish and perhaps not as smooth at transitions.