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Faster alternatives to manually inserting audio volume keyframes in order to reduce dynamic range?
Hi all,
I have a whole bunch of audio monologue clips in my Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 project, all with varying amplitudes and dynamic ranges. Up until now, I have been manually adjusting the audio gain of each clip, as well as manually inserting volume keyframes to raise the quieter parts/lower the louder parts, so that during playback, the entire monologue has the same volume (around -2dB) and the lowest possible dynamic range without sounding too “unnatural”. My goal is make the volume of the entire voice track consistent, so that it can be heard clearly over the background music track. In other words, so that the quieter parts are raised to -2dB and the louder parts are lowered to -2dB, with a very low dynamic range
Are there any faster, more automated ways of doing this that will save me a hell of a lot of the time it takes to manually achieve my desired effect using keyframes? I have just discovered the ‘dynamics’ Premiere Pro CS4 effect, but I’m not entirely sure how to use it. I have a basic understanding of what compressors/limiters to, but some expert guidance would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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I should add, I also have Audition CS5.5 and Soundbooth CS4…
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Didn’t(or doesn’t) Soundbooth have a “Volume Leveler”?
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This could be tackled in Ppro or Audition.
Dynamic Range “Compressors” are available in both.
in PPro if you can get the clips on to the same track, you can apply it as a track effect in the sequence audio mixer.
Take a look at this background wiki for info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
this would get you in the right ball park…and then you’d beed a lot less keyframes….
hth,
Alex Udell
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Thanks for the replies guys. I managed to work it out on my own in the end. I exported the entire track out of PP as a .wav file, imported it into Audition, then used the single band compressor to level out the volume/reduce the dynamic range to my required settings. I’m very pleased that I won’t ever be burdered with the laborious, time consuming, tedious task of achieving the same outcome manually with keyframes ever again!
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