Volume indicator in MM a little tricky

[Guest]

I created a movie of vacation pics. After organizing the pics I then chose
the music and sound bites to use. I strung the pics together in PhotoStory
and got the duration for each topic just right so it matched up with the
duration of the sound files I was going to use. I saved the PS file and
imported it into MM and I also imported the music and sound clips. I added
the video to the timeline then added the audio clips. Now is when I had the
problem. Not all the audio clips were set to the same decibal. If the sound
was too quite I used MM to "turn it up". Just tweaking the volume ever so
slightly raise it up enough to hear it better but when I rendered the movie
and later burned to DVD any sound I tweaked in MM was exagerated (though not
on the AVI file I rendered it to). I had to go back and use something like
Audacity to get the volume of the clips where I needed them and start over.
Does anybody have any thoughts about the volume control in MM?

 

[Graham Hughes]

If you made an avi and the sound was ok then it is not MM that is causing
the problem, but the app which you are using to author your dvd.

 

[Guest]

Graham,
What you said makes sense so I restored the avi from my recycle bin and
played it in WMP and it was bad too. I wonder if the problem was what
Audacity did to it. I used Audacity to pull just the 30 seconds I needed from
the song then save the file as a WMA but I think the bit rate was different.
I usually rip my music at 128kbps but when I save it in Audacity I might have
saved it at the highest bit rate possible. Do you think that could screw up
the audio?

 

[Graham Hughes]

It shouldn't make a difference to the volume of the audio, not unless you
tweaked this using amplification or something else, bitrate wouldn't make it
any louder.
If you can't remember exactly what you did, test a 30 second clip and try to
recreate it and make a note of all the setting you use and let us know.