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  • audio levels for non-broadcast project

    Posted by Scott Davis on May 1, 2006 at 9:32 pm

    I’m familiar with -12 or -20 db for broadcast for audio levels. What do you guys set you levels at (average level that is) for a non-broadcast, straight to DVD project. Its an exercise video with professionaly recorded VO and stock music as the majority of the audio.

    Scott Davis

    Matt Sandström replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Fishback

    May 2, 2006 at 2:14 am

    You can look at this thread. If you search on this forum and the audio professionals forum you’ll find other discussions, too. https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=30&postid=855551

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  • Matt Sandström

    May 2, 2006 at 10:32 am

    i mix my masters to -20db with peaks at around -8, then bring this up to -12 and 0 respectively for festival screening copies, since you’ll be playing with films that haven’t been sound mixed at all and thus have a dynamic range from around -3 to 0 at best, which means projectionists always turn down the volume for the entire show. a similar strategy could certainly be used for non broadcast video copies.

    /matt

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