-
Tips for Balancing Music/Voice
Hey guys, I’ve just started off making videos and I have a question about how to balance music/voice dD levels.
Basically I have video footage and I’m adding background music and voiceovers to it. Here’s what I’ve been doing so far:
– Get the video all setup.
– Record my voiceover.
– Add background music and then lower the dD on this music track until I can hear the voiceover well.Is there any standard way to be doing this? I hate it when I listen to three videos in a row and the volume levels are completely different. Is there any sort of best practice that I should be following?
-
1 Reply
-
Steve, there are some really cool audio editing and conversion apps out there on the ‘net. One of them is Levelator. You can download it for free from https://the-levelator.en.softonic.com/ . What Levelator does is takes differenct volume levels of audio in the same track—say, two people talking that have varying levels of audio—and levels them out to one audio level. All you have to do in Vegas is render your audio part of your timeline into a 48Khz PCM audio file and import it into Levelator. Levelator will output a file that has the same name as your import file, except it will also add ‘output’ onto the file name, right on the same harddrive that you imported your file from. Then you just have to import it back into Vegas and match it up on your timeline, using your original audio track location as a key. Then you can mute or delete your original audio track from your project. This might help you solve your problem with three video’s having different audio levels.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up