Way to automate audio normalization?

[David Roth weiss]

Tom,

I think you can select all the clips at once and apply the normalization to them all at once. It is not a filter, so the filters attribute does not apply as you already dicovered.

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[Nick Meyers]

that’s a yes on “you can do all at once”
and a no on “it’s not a filter”

you don’t apply it like a filter,
but when you run the normalise process, (Modify Menu > Audio > Add Normalisation Gain) FCP adds a gain filter to each clip.

make it faster by setting a keyboard command for it

problem with FCP’s normalise is that it makes the adjustment for the whole clip, based on the loudest point.

nick

[Alexander Kallas]

In FCP5.1 select the audio clips, then
modify>levels>gain adjust>relative or absolute

Cheers
Alexander

[Mark Maness]

The easiest way to do this is… edit your program as you would normally edit. Edit for proper sound mixing, then you can drop your sequence into a new sequence and normalize that one for broadcast. That way everything is normalized like you want.

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[Nick Meyers]

but not with normalisation the FCP sees it.

that just sets the loudest peak in your clip to your designated db.
if it’s a nested sequence,
that just be setting one overall level for the whole show,
which is what you’ve got already!

in FCP “Normalise” isnt a “Normalise” filter, that analyses the audio and adjusts it dynamically
its just process that adds a simple Gain filter to each clip.

you could export your program and drop that into Something that has a normalisation tool the way what most people understand it.
SoundTrack Pro, would probably do the job.

nick

[Mark Maness]

[Nick Meyers] “you could export your program and drop that into Something that has a normalisation tool the way what most people understand it.
SoundTrack Pro, would probably do the job.
“

This would be the best overall option.

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