How do you normalize audio on separate tracks

Rich Parry wrote on 6/19/2015, 12:20 AM

Many of my videos are photo slideshows with music (no dialog); I put the music on separate tracks. The music comes from various sources (Royalty Free) and often has different volume levels.

When one piece of music is at a different volume than another, I manually make adjustments to the audio amplitude to keep the volume consistent across the project. Is there a way make VP13 normalize multiple audio clips on multiple tracks?

Thanks in advance,

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wwaag wrote on 6/26/2015, 2:32 PM

Rich,

There's a very good discussion on CC about broadcast levels and loudness.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/989913

It's well worth a read--probably a couple of times.

wwaag

Rich Parry wrote on 6/28/2015, 1:51 AM

wwaag,

I read it once, I'll sleep on it and read again. The methods suggested by Rafrano are very different than the method we discussed in this thread using normalization in Sound Forge.

My stuff is not for broadcast, just friends and family. My main goal was to keep the sound level to a point where the listener didn't have to ride the volume control. Just set at the beginning and its done.

thanks again,