Wow 2 years later and this video is still better than 90% of the other audio videos trying to explain this, great job my man and thanks for keeping it simple and to the point!
Thank you...straight to the point and useful info (compared to another video I tried to watch where they waffled on about all manner of things not related to the topic!:) Thank you for the clarification...and great tip re static peaks that I never knew about. Thanks.
I've needed this information for a long time but most videos I've seen were too in depth and I just never wanted to take the time to wade through and find what I needed . Thanks very much for giving this quick and helpful tutorial! This is the last thing I need to do on my RU-vid video- glad I found it!
Great video, thank you for the explanation! I was wondering if there is away to somehow average out the volume of a single clip, here's my problem: when I vlog, whoever is holding the camera is closest to the mic and is the loudest and other people speaking are too quiet (even if they are next to the person holding the camera). Is there a way to even out the volume in a single clip or I have to chop it and apply the technique in this video? Thank you!
Hello @Petia, This is a great question, and several people have asked the same thing. So I did another video on Audio Compression, which will help you even out the volume in a single clip. Check it out and let me know if it works: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QyBU-yjFqp0.html
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excellent so excellent. Just discovered your channel by chance after a search and I like you style of teaching. Thank you. Looking forward to a lot more of your teachings.
Great suggestion! You can right click a clip in the Project panel and Normalize it there. However you must do this BEFORE adding the clip to the Timeline.
Thanks. Once we normalize audio (right click, Audio Gain, Normalize Max Peak / All Peaks) on one or multiple tracks, and later return to the same Audio Gain dialog box for any one of those clips, it doesn't show us the number we set that clip to. Where can one see what number/s we entered for normalization, at any time we return to that audio gain menu?
@Californian Wayfarer That is a good question. You will not see the normalization value. But you can calculate this by adding the Peak Amplitude and the Set Gain to values. Tricky, but it works.
@@WebGuru Thanks. Your videos are quite helpful and clear. So on the same string, if I've normalized a clip to -3 let's say, and I later return to Audio Gain for that clip, it shows 0. So let's say I don't remember whether I normalized that clip, as I'm seeing 0 in front of me. Let's say I normalize again to -3. What would happen? Alternatively, are there any visual cues (eg on the clip in the timeline) whether the clip has been normalized and to what level?
BIG thanks! That really helped. Just curious, alternatively could I also select the audioclip I fixed, then select Copy, then select the audio clips I need normalized, then choose Paste Attribute? Is there any negative to doing it this way? Thanks again!!
@@WebGuru I did notice an issue though. since it peaks every clip, some clips sound too loud then others and I need to adust manually. I sometime record tutorials, and occasionaly without intension speak louder or weaker. when I cut my audio to remove silence or mistakes, I occasionaly peak clips that should not be peaking. if that makes sense.
Thanks so much, guru. So is -3 the standard level for talking? A long time ago someone said to me to keep the peaks between -12 & -6, and I did that ever since and didn't question. How did you decide on -3?
-12 is way too quiet. In radio we aimed to keep listener focus from -3 to -6 and background sound in the -20 range, with the occasional odd peak at 0 not being too much to worry about as long as you weren't burying the needle. Our friends over on the TV side were similar. With web video, obviously there's less of an imperative to keep everything strictly standardized, but it is very annoying as a viewer to watch a video where we have to crank up the volume, then the mid-video ads (on RU-vid, for example) blow out your speakers because they've been mastered at traditional broadcast levels.
@@amillison Every time I put it at -20 I get notes back that it's too loud, lol. Even though it sounds good to me, my agency clients usually prefer it when I'm around -24 to -26.
@@mpbMKE Thanks so much. I'm always getting comments that my music is too loud as well, so I have taken to just cutting it in and out entirely. But I'd like to find that balance so thanks for sharing the wisdom of your experience.
Good question @Andrew! Television broadcast standards are more rigorous and they often restrict levels to -6 or -12 or lower. These standards don't exist on the Internet, and people are often using low-quality speakers. So I bring my levels up to -3 and sometimes higher, but never above 0. Background music or audio can be around in the -20 to -30 range.
I'm wondering why you don't just use Essential Sounds and hit DIALOG/AUTOMATCH? Does this produce a different outcome or is it just another way to achieve the same thing?
Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much! I've been working on up scaling DVD rips of a favorite show of mine for use on my media server(480i to 1080p), it took some time, but I finally got the video aspect of it exactly the way I want it, ran the export and audio would get quiet seemingly at random. The issue was the manual adjust for the gain, the tracks were so small i couldn't see that it defaulted to a place where it was clipping off the audio's peaks. Thanks again! I'm so excited to finish this project!
i used to be able to raise the gain of a clip really high but now ALL my clips can only be raised to a Max of +15 db. I raise the db of some clips that are really quiet but now i cant seem figure out how to unlock this cap Any help would be appreciated!
If you drag the white line in the timeline, you will be limited to 15db. So better is: right click clip > Audio Gain and then you can adjust the gain however high you want.
Very helpful videos. Can you make a video on drawing a wiggly line on a map or can you give me a link on a tutorial for drawing a wiggly line on a map. Thanks
What if there's uneven volume in a single clip how to I compress it? I really don't understand how compresion works in xd because I can't visibly see the wave shift. It's just like an adjustment layer.
Here is the video on Audio Compression, which will help you even out the volume in a single clip. Check it out and let me know if it works: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QyBU-yjFqp0.html
All of the options in the Gain dialog box do the same thing. They either increase or decrease the gain, but in different ways. If you see no difference after normalizing, your audio might already be peaking at the level you set.
@Roc Ren, this is a common limitation with normalization. It only looks at the peaks. What I recommend is to COMPRESS the audio and then to NORMALIZE it. So I did another video on that technique: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QyBU-yjFqp0.html
@@WebGuru Thanks! What makes it difficult for me is my voice changes at different hours throughout a day, but the software cannot recognize that difference. The displayed wave seems the same but some part is extremely loud whilst others can barely be heard. I'd have to listen to each part of the recording and separate them into little clips, and manually adjust the boost, which is insanely time consuming.
