remotion-dev/remotion · error · Error

Volume was set to ${volume}, but regular volume is 1, not 10

Error message

Volume was set to ${volume}, but regular volume is 1, not 100. Did you forget to divide by 100? Set a volume of less than 100 to dismiss this error.

What it means

Thrown by `warnAboutTooHighVolume` when a volume value is >= 100. Remotion's volume scale is 0 to 1 (not 0 to 100), so a value of 100 or above almost always indicates the developer forgot to divide a percentage by 100. This is a deliberate safeguard against silent full-blast audio that would otherwise clip.

Source

Thrown at packages/core/src/volume-safeguard.ts:3

export const warnAboutTooHighVolume = (volume: number) => {
	if (volume >= 100) {
		throw new Error(
			`Volume was set to ${volume}, but regular volume is 1, not 100. Did you forget to divide by 100? Set a volume of less than 100 to dismiss this error.`,
		);
	}
};

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Solutions

1. Divide the percentage by 100: `volume={sliderValue / 100}`.
2. Use values in the [0, 1] range directly.
3. If you genuinely want silence or a value above 1 is impossible in your UI, cap the slider at 1.

Example fix

// before
<Video src={s} volume={75} />

// after
<Video src={s} volume={75 / 100} /> // 0.75

const normalizeVolume = (v: number): number => {
  if (v >= 100) throw new Error(`volume ${v} looks like a percentage; divide by 100`);
  return v;
};

const isLinearVolume = (v: number): boolean =>
  typeof v === 'number' && v >= 0 && v < 100;

When it happens

Trigger: Passing `volume={80}` or `volume={100}` (percentage-style) to <Video>/<Audio> instead of `0.8`/`1`. The check fires before audio playback.

Common situations: Treating volume like a CSS opacity percentage; reading a volume value from a UI slider that outputs 0–100 and passing it through; copying examples from other libraries that use 0–100 scales.

Related errors

• You have passed a volume of type ${typeof props.volume} to y
• You have passed a volume below 0 to your <${component} /> co
• You passed in a a function to the volume prop but it did not
• You passed in a function to the volume prop but it returned
• You passed in a function to the volume prop but it returned

AI-assisted analysis of remotion-dev/remotion@78fe4bb3fd (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/17525ddd40327df8. Report an issue: GitHub.