-
Determine loudest point in a project
Is there a tool I can use so that Vegas somehow scans the audio of my project and tells me what the loudest peak is? Basically, this would be like playing back the entire project and at the end, seeing how loud it got by looking at the mixer fader. But being able to do this without actually playing back the entire project.
Andrew
-
4 Replies
-
Generally if I am looking for the loudest peak I do it visually by vertically expanding the audio track and quickly scroll through it and look for the greatest audio waveform amplitude. Usually this is the loudest part of your program. Another way you could do it, if it is a finished fully rendered audio track, would be to set your normalize peaks to -0.1 under the ‘audio’ tab under preferences and then right click the audio track and under switches select ‘normalize’. This then would normalize that track to the -0.1 level and when it normalizes it uses the highest peak to scale the normalise value from. Now scroll through the track and find the peak that goes from the top of the waveform to the bottom and that is generally the highest value on which the normalize was based on. Once you have determined this you can always use undo to bring the levels back to where they were or just deselect ‘normalize’ under switches. Any better methods out there? Always good to get other peoples work arounds.
Chris Young
Sydney -
This is fine if you are looking at just one track. But with a multi-track project, all the audio overlapping, I’m looking for a way to determine the loudest point overall…
Andrew
-
Phew! That’s a hard one. I don’t have any suggestions other than the long winded one of manually going through all clips looking for the highest peaks, not a pleasant thought!
Chris Young
Sydney -
That method wouldn’t work, regardless of time, when you consider the envelopes and FX on tracks.
I guess there really is no option other than to render the whole project, make adjustments, render again. I can’t imagine there isn’t a tool to do this for you, but I suppose not.
Andrew
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up