• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Sound levels in long fiction project

  Posted by Eoin Cleland on September 14, 2009 at 3:21 pm

  Hi everyone,

  I have a feature film edited in Premiere Pro CS4. It’s 70 scenes, split into 10 scene projects in premiere. I’m not at the mastering and sound mixing stage yet, but i’m sending out roughtcuts to local investors. I’m putting each of the ten completed scenes in each project into a single timeline and rendering that as a HD wmv. That leaves me with ten wmvs that I’m turning into a DVD using Encore CS4.

  The problem is that the sound levels are a mess. Individually scenes are fine, but accross the whole project you need to keep turning the volume up and down. Is there a normaliser that I can use without messing up the balance of audio within each scene? Is it better to do in Premiere or Encore?

  Thanks everyone for their time.

  Eoin

  Eoin Cleland replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jonas Bendsen

  September 15, 2009 at 4:46 am

  There’s an effect in Premiere Pro called “dynamics” that might do the trick. You would need to export each of your 10 scenes’ audio into one long clip (instead of a bunch of little ones), so you could apply the effect (you will need to figure out how best to configure the settings), then export the scene as your HD wmv.

  By the way, you might consider exporting each of the 10 scenes using the MPEG2-DVD setting instead of wmv. This is what Encore is going to transcode it to anyway. If you use that setting, you won’t be transcoding the file twice (once in Premiere to wmv, and then again in Encore to MPEG).

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  Eoin Cleland

  September 15, 2009 at 10:53 am

  Thanks very much, it’s hugely appreciated. I’ll look into this dynamics malarky.

  Eoin

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