Music, voice-over and audio
Generate AI music and voice-over, place a track from your workspace music shelf, dub the dialogue into another language — all ducked under speech automatically.
What Eddie can do with audio
Eddie can add:
- AI-generated music — describe a style or mood and Eddie generates a new track for your edit. On the timeline, the empty Music lane also has a one-click ✨ Generate button with style, mood and tempo pickers.
- Your own music — upload a track (MP3, WAV or M4A) to your workspace's music shelf, attach it to the project, and ask Eddie to place it.
- AI-generated voice-over — describe the script and tone you want, or let Eddie draft the script from the edit. You can preview the voices before generating.
- A dubbed voice track — translate the edit's dialogue into another language and speak it on the voice-over lane. See Dub your edit.
- Automatic ducking so music doesn't fight with dialogue.
Mute a track
Every audio-bearing lane on the timeline has a speaker toggle on its left rail:
- V1 (your clips) — mutes the clips' own recorded audio. This is how you build a voice-over-narrated sequence over A-roll: the picture plays, the camera sound doesn't.
- VO — mutes every voice-over clip.
- Music — mutes the soundtrack.
A mute is part of the edit (everyone on the project sees it, and it survives reload), and it carries into your exports:
- MP4 renders leave the muted track out of the mix — muting the clips' audio renders their sound as silence, with the picture and timing untouched.
- Premiere project (.prproj) arrives with the audio tracks fader-muted (the mixer's M button) — the media is all there, un-mute to bring it back. Premiere XML ships those audio clipitems disabled.
- Formats with no track mute Eddie can set (FCPXML, OTIO, DaVinci .drp) include the audio and say so in the export notes — mute the track in your NLE to match.
Muting is non-destructive: nothing is deleted, and toggling the speaker back restores the sound everywhere.
What Eddie can't do
- Sound effects — you can't send Eddie an SFX file and have it dropped at a cut, and it doesn't generate effects.
- Beat-matching to a specific existing song's rhythm — Eddie places and ducks your uploaded track, but it doesn't analyze an arbitrary song's beats to cut against. If the beat grid matters, finish that pass in your NLE.
If you need either in the final piece, export the edit (MP4, or a timeline via FCPXML/Premiere XML/EDL) and add them in your usual editor.
Cost
Generating AI music or voice-over is a paid operation billed in credits (voice-over on the script length, music on the track). Placing an uploaded track from your music shelf is free. If you're unsure, ask Eddie "how much would this cost?" first — it quotes before it spends.