Basic audio question

kunal wrote on 11/23/2005, 10:29 AM

This is a very newbie question --

If I have some audio in Vegas and I'm trying to play around with the volume level, how do I know what the "right" volume level is? I set the master volume and then play the audio on my computer's external speakers and it sounds okay, but if I burn it to DVD and play the DVD on a standalone player, it sounds quite low. Even w/o doing the DVD burning, if I just do a PTT and play the tape on a TV, it sounds lower than it did when I played it on the computer's speakers.

Is there some kind of monitoring tool/sw that I can use to calibrate it to a standard level?

Thanks!
Kunal.

Comments

rraud wrote on 11/25/2005, 11:55 AM

Apply peak normalizing or possably "Wave Hammer" to the Master buss plugin FX. View> Mixer
Then set the threshold on the WH volume maximizer to get about -4dB of gain reduction on peaks* with output @ around -.01 to -3dB
(*more or less depending on the program material)

fishbelt wrote on 11/27/2005, 6:58 AM

I have allot problems with audio. In the frist few DVD's I have made The sound was way too loud for movies. I am about half deaf lol. When the sound starts everyone jumps out of the seats lol. So I came up with normalizing the sound in creative wave. This keeps all the sound at a constant volume. Then I figured out what % in the volume controls everyone is comfortable with. This I set at the finishing end of the video just befor I render. I scared the hell out of everyone before doing this lol. fishbelt