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Adjusting ALL audio in a 1 hour movie
I have 2 video tracks, plus a narration audio track, an ambient sound audio track, a music audio track, and a second narration audio track (for some narration recorded from an aircraft intercom).
This is a 1 hour long movie, and trying to get the audio levels correct is driving me completely nuts. Surely since this is software, there must be one feature where I can click something to normalize all of the audio so that I’m not distorting in one place but can’t hear the narration in another place. Isn’t there?
Sony seems to hide some things as “switches” and hides other things as “plug-ins”, and I need a simple step-by-step approach to getting the levels correct. I have screwed with gains and volumes and envelopes, but I can’t do this for a 1 hour long movie over and over and over. Every time I get one track right, the master volume is too high or too low. Then I adjust another track and it’s all messed up again. I would appreciate the advice of a professional audio guy who has done complex projects.
I have Sony Vegas Pro 8.0c on a big, fast machine, but I don’t have any other sound editors except what’s built into Vegas Pro.
Thanks
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3 Replies
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If all you are wanting to do is normalize, just right click on the event (if you want to do all events on the current track- right click and choose select events to end) and hit the “h” key and then the “n” key. This will normalize the event that is selected (or events that are selected).
j razz
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It seems like there should be something that will show me the peak and the RMS values of the maximum audio levels across an entire track or something. As it is, I’m having to play the entire project in order to find out that there’s a spot where the level goes into the red. Why can’t that be done in software?
Dave Morris
Producer
Air-Wave Productions
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Dave, what you want to do can be done in software but you need to do this in Sound Forge, not Vegas.
edit: IMO, there is no “one button” solution to what you’re looking to do.
I’ve done things like this and you need to go through the timeline clip by clip, paying attention to audio levels at each and every step of the process.
This is no different than what a recording engineer goes through while mixing a song.
I’ve sat in on 24 track mixing sessions and the process I described is exactly what the engineer does for each vocalist and instrument in the song.
It willl take time (quite often a LOT of it) but the result is worth it.
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