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  • AC3 issues vs WAV – Dialog normalization

    Posted by Ross Stark on February 8, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    Ok, I’m stuck on this issue: AC3 total sound levels vs WAV total sound levels.

    Projects with audio rendered to AC3 have a substantially lower overall audio level than when I render to WAV. I hear it and see it when I move over to DVD Architect. Is this a Dialog normalization setting or something else? I would rather go with AC3 because of space constraints, but the lower level is unacceptable. Dialog normalization is currently set to -27db.

    Mike Kujbida replied 7 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mike Kujbida

    February 8, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    See if this mod helps.

    Encode set to AC3;
    Click on custom tab;
    On the first tab set Dialog normalization to “-31”;
    On the last tab marked Preprocessing;
    Set the Line Mode & RF mode profiles to “None”;
    Now save this as a preset.

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