Professional audio leveling

eheh wrote on 5/17/2002, 10:48 AM

I'm finalazing a movie built from different sources (DV, Still, Audio CD). The audio levels are different among parts. Is there a global way to acheive a mean level between the different parts (each prerendered as an interim AVI).
I can, of course, volume evnelope the lot and increase/decrease localy. This however, seems very subjective. I am quite sure that sound technicians have procedures for that.

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SonyDennis wrote on 5/17/2002, 9:59 PM

1. Right click on audio events, turn on Switches, Normalize. This works with a multiple selection, too.

2. The Vegas Track Compressor plug-in can help maintaining level. Possibly some of the Dynamics processors (I'm not an audio guy <g>) and finally, for the heavy artillery, Wave Hammer (which now comes with Sound Forge 6).

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Naughtybird wrote on 5/18/2002, 5:28 AM

Hi,

don´t normalize, no pro audio guy would do this.
Use Waves Ultramaximzer L1, L2 or Sonic´s Wavehammer in the master to reach a general high level.
Never exceed -0.3dB as a general rule. Treat the single events one after another, hey, you have to do something, not everthing is automatic.

Good luck.

Naughtybird