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“Normalized” audio
As an old audio guy I like to keep my levels near the max. In my audio studio I have an effect that “normalizes” the audio to a preset level, ie; 85 , 90 95% etc. I can’t find an effect like that in Vegas. Does Vegas call it something else? Is there anything like that or will I have to export the file to my audio station, fix it and bring it back?
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As Roseanna Roseannadanna would say..”Never Mind” I finally found it by selcting the track and found it under switches.
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don’t feel too silly…I did the same thing coming from audio only to Vegas!
steven
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“As an old audio guy I like to keep my levels near the max.”
85% Max? 100% is maximum. Your lady isn’t complaining? Anyway, right click on an audio track > switches > normalize. Real time, quite nice.
Barend
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Thanks guys…this site is a God Send! Have a great weekend!
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There are scripts to automatically normalize all audio in your project.
Also — (I say this a lot) — Go under “view” and choose “edit details”. Re-arrange your layout to keep this visible and stretch it out as wide as the timeline. Keep it visible and use it for such things as “normalize.”td
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Speaking of normalization in Vegas, is there a way to change the method of normalization to RMS averaging, or whatever it’s called in Sound Forge. When I normalize in Vegas, if there is a single loud noise, it doesn’t raise all the levels very much unless I split the audio clips and isolate the loud parts of the wave form.
thanks,
Mary Waitrovich
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Now, that’s one of the reasons they invented the audio compressors. It took me quite some time to figure those out, but they’re very useful.
Barend
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Right. And the audio compressor you want is called Wave Hammer. It’s a TrackFX.
Select the ‘maximize volume’ preset and change it to -1 or -.1, then save it. You may still need to use ‘normalize’ in some rare instances, but being only an _event_ setting, it’s of limited usefulness.
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I believe “Wave Hammer” comes with Sound Forge.
Edward Troxel
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Yes, it does. But wait. Do you mean Vegas ships with no audio compressor at all? I guess I wouldn’t know as I’ve always had SF with it.
No, this is too important to not investigate since it’s much too useful a tool and Premiere must ship with one. But the following link clearly says Wavehammer’s included with Vegas6. Whew!
https://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=965&FeatureID=8187Um. Or does it? It says ‘Wave Hammer surround’. Now I’m more confused than ever. Be real nice if someone without SF installed could chime in here and clarify if stereo audio compression is included in Vegas.
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