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Make ducking controlled by audio output of VO track

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Mikael Sandgren

Have music ducking be controlled by the audio output of the VO track instead of 'visually' controlled (by the presence/absence of a VO clip, whether VO is playing or not)

June 9, 2017

Andrew Mason

FYI this feature is now available in the beta: https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042638691-The-Descript-Beta-Program

In the inspector, view a track, and you'll see a new "Reduce volume on other tracks" option.

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Timothy Dowd

Andrew Mason: I am about to decide on the Creator or Pro subscription do we have a timeline for ducking?

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January 1, 2018

Julian Kwasneski

There are times when we want to use Pause events to let music post for creative reasons. This almost always happens at the end of a tour but we used to use them to carve out space for music all the time. 
Now that we're bouncing VO into a single stem, the engine doesn't see Pause events so my suggestion for an "allow ducking" contextual menu option doesn't really apply.
This is something Mikael and I as well as others on the audio team have struggled with and there's currently no easy solution. You can bake the volume boost into the file but that introduces other problems.