Paul Walker
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OK, so it turns out (probably unsurprisingly) that it’s a lot more complicated than I was hoping for! I’m a complicate “newbie” and just editing a few videos for home, so I guess as long as I get something “about right”, that’s good enough.
I used a combination of the “Normalize” switch (the Normalize Peak Level in preferences defaults to -0.1) and audio event envelopes. When I play it, the meters on the surround master max out at -0.1 (only momentarily) and probably average at around -12. Most importantly to me, it sounds OK without me having to adjust my speakers.
Thanks for your help.
p.s. I don’t suppose there are any good links to “beginners guides” to this kind of thing (or video editing in general)?
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That’s what I was hoping. May thanks for your help.
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That makes sense, thanks.
The only other thing then is whether I should work on the original “.mts” files, or a copy? My concern with working on the original ones would be if my editing changed them in some way (especially with me being new to this, I don’t want to change my original source data). Does anything in Movie Studios actually change the “.mts” files themselves?