How to standardise audio levels over 5 edit suites

[Lance Bauerfeind]

I understand that premiere’s audio is a good one and doesn’t average out levels – but I could be wrong on that. I have left the realms of my knowledge so have decided to get an audio gut in to sort it out. thanks for your advice.

Lance

Lance

[Peter Groom]

By average I was referring to a meter type. A VU measures an average value. As it sets off on its way to read a loud peak, it is halted en route by the next audio which may be a quieter one, hence it never actually reads a peak which is what we need to see. A PPM always shows the highest peak and it is weighted for a slow decay so it falls back slower so we always get to see the peak and respond to it.

I wasnt suggesting that Premiere is such a donkey as to actually adjust the mean audio values, merely that internal metering is in my experience not designed for this use. They are usually calibrated to “O” where all the 0’s and 1’s become 1’s in a digital datastream and onset clipping occurs.

Different meters for different jobs.

Peter