Volume level adjust/raise

[Max Frank]

Try this:

From: https://www.larryjordan.biz/nxltrs/nxltr_41.html

[NB – See my note at the bottom]

Normalizing Audio in Final Cut Pro

I’ve been a fan of normalizing audio for a long time, especially when the audio is really, really too soft.

Normalization means to raise the audio gain of an enitre clip such that the loudest portion of the clip does not exceed a level which you specify. As a note, I never normalize to 0 dB — it’s too loud. I tend to normalize audio between -4.5 and -6 dB.

With the release of Final Cut Pro 6, audio normalization is now a menu choice: Modify > Audio > Apply Normalization Gain.

However, this is not actually changing the audio itself. Rather, it is applying a Gain filter to each clip which raises it’s level such that the loudest portion of the clip does not exceed the level you specify.

One of the benefits of the Gain filter is that, unlike all other Final Cut controls, the Gain filter can raise, or lower, the level of a clip 96 dB. In contrast, dragging the red rubber bands in the Timeline only allows us to raise the gain of a clip by up to 12 dB; which is often not enough.

With that as background, Gordon Inglis asks if he can apply normalization to more than one clip in the Timeline at once. So I did some checking.

The answer is yes, but with a caution.

Yes, you can normalize more than one clip at a time; in fact, you can normalize as many clips as you have selected in your sequence. The Gain filter will be applied with a different level for each clip such that the loudest portion of each clip does not exceed the level you specify in the Normalization dialog.

This is a very fast way to get all your clips to play at about the same level of loudness.

However, the Gain filter ignores any level changes you’ve made to your clip. So, in order to get the results you expect, you must make sure the audio levels for each clip are set to 0 dB.

The easiest way to do this is to select all the clips which you want to normalize, then choose Edit > Remove Attributes.

Select the Levels checkbox to reset all your clip audio levels to 0 dB.

At which point, normalization will work the way you expect.

Wayne’s note: I’ve automated the above by simply creating a button for this by doing as follows:
Tools > Button List > Normalize > drag Normalize Gain Button into Button Bar on Time Line [see attached].
Then it’s just one click to normalize a clip or clips!

[Jan Stieler]

First, thanks for your detailed post.
Exist this Gain Filter also in the FCP 5.1.4?

[Max Frank]

Hi,

I’m not too sure – you’ll have to check. Sorry.

W

[Jan Stieler]

I couln´t find any gain function.
Do you know some third party plugin or software who could give me the same possibilities by hand?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jan Stieler] “Now I raise the volume with the volume level up to 12 db. But it is still to quiet on some positions.
Is there another facility to raise the volume?”

You mean the audio levels in the audio tracks of FCP? This is not a volume, this is your audio level controls. Volume level is how loud you listen to your audio playback and this is controlled by the Mac Volume Control or an external amplifier. It has nothing to do with the levels in your FCP timeline. If it’s too quiet, you can simply turn up the volume with an amplifier but this does nothing to your actual audio levels in your timeline.

If you’re not getting enough audio levels from your playback, use Audio Filters>Final Cut Pro> Compressor / Limiter

Be sure to Check “Preserve Volume” at the bottom. I generally set everything in the 2’s. change each item to 20, 2, 200, etc…. from the 40’s that it starts out as.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Jan Stieler]

Hi,
your right I used the wrong term.
Now I will check this out and than I gave an report if I could control this :). Or I would have some questions about this filter.

[David Bogie]

Look for DynaicsProcessor in older versions of FCP.
There are lots of controls, you only need to adjust gain. Carefully.

bogiesan

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