Setting audio levels to be the same volume?

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

Setting audio levels to be the same volume?

Posted by Saya Hillman on February 14, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Hi, I have a project shot by various people, that has left me with clips of varying audio levels – once I change one to my liking, is there a way to make the rest of the clips that volume as well? I realize you can copy and paste audio levels, but since they all start at different levels, this doesn’t make them all the same volume.

Trying to figure out a way to make them all the same volume without having to adjust each one —

Thanks for any advice!
April

MAC OSX 10.5.6
1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
768 MB DDR SDRAM

MAC OSX 10.5.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
LaCie Big Disk 380GB
FCP 6.0.5

Saya Hillman replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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David Roth weiss
February 14, 2009 at 10:29 pm

The term for what you are wishing for is called “audio normalization.” FCP only comes with a rather rudimentary filter that applies the gain filter to clips, but it might do the trick for you by raising all clips to the same level.

To apply, select all the audio clips on the timeline, go to Modify>>Audio and choose the last item, which is Apply Normalization Gain, set it to something like -6, and hit okay. Now listen and see what you got. If you don’t like it, just hit delete and it will remove the filter throughout.

Here’s a short discussion by Larry Jordan that explains what it does in more detail: https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_normalizing_audio.html

David Roth Weiss
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Rafael Amador
February 15, 2009 at 2:29 am

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David Roth weiss
February 15, 2009 at 4:13 am

Troublemaker!

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
Elijah Lynn
February 15, 2009 at 9:40 am

Too funny!
Saya Hillman
February 15, 2009 at 11:58 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, appreciate it greatly!

MAC OSX 10.5.6
1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
768 MB DDR SDRAM

MAC OSX 10.5.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
LaCie Big Disk 380GB
FCP 6.0.5

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