Hello! If this is in the incorrect forum, please let me know.
(Mac Maverick, Adobe CC.) A customer provided a clip to me for production as a .MOV file. The audio was way, way hot on the clip, so I ran it through QuickTime to export the audio, took that file into Audition to normalize the levels, exported it as a .WAV, and imported the WAV into After Effects. Okey dokey.
Problem is, the audio from After Effects is still very much louder than the .WAV file. I rendered from AE to .MP4 and uploaded that to Vimeo to show my customer, and the audio was very overwhelming. So I went back and repeated the process to make sure I hadn't messed anything up, and had the same results. I went in to the Audio panel in AE and lowered the audio a full 96dB, but it had no effect on the final rendered .MP4.
Can someone point me to some resources that explain the relationship between Audition and After Effects, or (optimally) explain how it all works in very small words? I seem to be a bear of very little brain...