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Idiot’s Guide to TV Audio?
I can do expressions in After Effects, and keyframe till the cows come home… but can’t seem to ever fully understand what I’m doing when it comes to audio. Especially when I need to edit a commercial for broadcast! I know what sounds good to me when it comes to mixing, but when it comes to setting my levels… thats when i get lost.
I use the Adobe CS3 package. Editing in Premier, i can fill left/right, raise the volume on a clip (even keyframe it), boost the gain on a clip, etc. In Soundbooth, I can remove a sound and other basic tools.
When someone asks me to set my music to -##db and VO to ##db, what does that mean really? My peaks? My average? Do i just look at my premier or soundbooth audio meter and guess-timate where its peaking is about where my target range is?, is there a way to precisely set this? Should i be Limiting or something? Whats the standard way of doing this?
Like i said… an idiot’s giude would be great.
Any advice?
Thanks,
DH
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Buy yourself a current copy of Jay Rose’s “Producing Great Sound for DV.”
That and a quiet month to read, assimilate and PRACTICE the info contained therein and you’ll know pretty much everything you need to improve your audio recording about a zillion percent.
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Thanks for the tip.
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