RMS normalization

nolonemo wrote on 9/7/2005, 3:12 PM

I need to normalize the audio on the clips that make up a home video compilation. I have Sound Forge installed, so can use SF's RMS normalization, working off the Vegas timeline. (The clips require RMS normalization, not peak normalization.) But going clip by clip will take sooo long and this is supposed to be a fast and dirty project. Is there a script that will automate this? I searched but didn't find anything. Please tell me it's because my searching skills are deficient!

Thanks, Nolo.

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 9/7/2005, 6:33 PM

Try WaveHammer inside Vegas.

geoff

nolonemo wrote on 9/9/2005, 9:18 AM

Thanks, Geoff, I looked a wavehammer, and didn't see how it would do what I was after.

Basically I'm trying to avoid two things:

1) having to right click on each of the many clips on the timeline one by one to open and process the audio in Sound Forge, and

2) having to walk through the normalize steps in Sound Forge when the clip has opened in Sound Forge.

BTW, I'm using Vegas 5 and Sound Forge 7.

I seem to recall that there were some posts about a universal keyboard macro program, anyone recall what that was. Perhaps I could set up a macro using that....

drbam wrote on 9/9/2005, 2:26 PM

If all the clips are where you need them on the timeline, why not just render all to a new track and normalize the new one?

drbam

James Young wrote on 9/9/2005, 3:08 PM

I remember sound forge having a batch process feature that should be able to automate this. I've not used it past version 4.5 though.