In the new audio only part of the timeline, right click and select “Properties”.

On the audio tab, set the audio to track 1 (or whatever track you want).

In the video part of the timeline, right click and select “Properties”.

Right click in the timeline and choose detach audio.

Step Three: How to separate your audio tracks in ShotCut and increase the volume of the quiet one. While I was googling how to do things in OpenShot, I came across another opensource video editor called ShotCut that ended up being able to do exactly what I wanted. It can almost do what I want, but not quite. I knew about OpenShot as a free video editor so decided to give it a try. Step Two: Choose a video editing software (or audio) that can do what you want Result was I have a 45 minute video with just gameplay sounds, none of my commentary was recorded.īoth steps are required to get multiple audio tracks in your recording. However, I did not go into OBS’s recording settings and set the audio to advanced -> multi track recording. I set my microphone to record on a different track than my game input. I made a major mistake when I first tried this. So time to start doing some minor video editing as part of “getting better.” Step One: Switch OBS to record to multiple audio tracks

Part of that is these are often done late at night or early in the morning and I don’t want to wake any one else in the house. In some videos you can’t hear me at all almost. Cheap microphone, no transitions or graphics, just gameplay with some commentary. I recently started making some let’s plays from some wise advice about monetizing your dopamine addiction.Īs a big proponent of “do it poorly, then get better” I started just doing very, very basic videos.

Shotcut record audio