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Help re audio for movie theatre work
Afternoon!
I’ve been asked to produce content which will be exhibited at a movie theatre through DVD.
All is fine expect that I have been asked to set the audio to the following:
82DB (LEQ) M
Would be most grateful if anybody can tell me how best to achieve this in FCP.
Thanks very much in advance.
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2 Replies
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This is nothing to do with FCP but a specification for calibrating digital levels in a monitoring environment. All mix theatres that do cinema work calibrate their monitoring levels with pink noise to 82db level with a portable noise level monitor (basically a meter with a built in mic). Mixing is then done with those monitoring levels so that there is a uniform volume in the cinema. It is a nice idea but flawed by those that want to make their cinema trailers louder than others etc.
What you need to do is take your sound track to a mix theatre that knows what cinema levels are for mixing. Strictly speaking they need seperate pre mix stems of your music, dialog and fx which they put back together and set dynamic compression and mastering levels for cinema.
Otherwise you are guessing levels.
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If you go to show your film in a movie theater, set your level in FC at -20dbs.
Rafael
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