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Stabilize volume across all sequences
I have a 30 minute movie made up of about 12 sequences. All of the audio for the film is voiceover and was recorded separately from the video. The audio was not all recorded at the same time which means there are a lot of subtle volume differences that occurred when all was said and imported.
Is there some filter or trick FCP offers to select all the audio in a sequence and make the volumes match? I tried to do this manually clip by clip and it is – obviously – a massive timeconsumer.
I understand enough about FCP that I can’t just set all the audios to the same decibel since they were all imported at different “0” start levels.
I hope someone might be able to give me a tip on how to make this faster and easier?
Thanks.
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Hi,
Audio Post is a timeconsuming and important job, I do my work in protools, however you have a great program at your disposal if you have final cut studio: Soundtrack pro.
choose your sequence, right click and send to soundtrackpro.
I do not know what your audio sounds like – however you can try normalizing : https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_stp_normalize.html
and / or a compressor.
Good Luck!
Andreas -
Audio post is a lot like grading and I do both. If you put one grade across a whole program, you wouldn’t expect it to be even as exposures vary. In the same way, normalising will not make everything sound the same volume.
The quick way is to put a dynamics processor across the channel and ride the levels with a fader. The closest tool to do that job is Sound Track Pro if you only have the FCSuite. You can therefore mix in real time with automation so you can quickly go back and pick up where levels may change. often with different recordings you will want to have subtle changes with EQ as well.
So think of it like editing and grading. Give the job the time it takes to do the job well and use better tools than FCP can offer.
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