Normalizing diffrent clips


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Normalizing diffrent clips
by francisco bech Gómez on Oct 23, 2009 at 10:19:28 am

Hello to veryone

I guess this is the right forum to ask, I apologize if is not the case

I am editing a documentary myself with Final Cut Pro for Imac

Is all different interviews with diffrent levels and old footage with diffrent levels as well.

What would be the best way to start fixing this? what program I can use?

I tried soundtrack ro but you can´t normalize all clips at once. So I am just leveling up volumes in Fnal Cut pro and triying to make equal, I guess this is not the best way. Besides, everyclip has diffrent kind of waweform. So it is posible to unify all this somehow and make similar wawes in amplitude etc.?

thanks very much for your help

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Re: Normalizing diffrent clips
by Paul Figgiani on Oct 23, 2009 at 3:43:53 pm

Francisco,

I have a few suggestions:

If you are running the latest version of Final Cut Studio, in Soundtrack Pro - change the Normalize function to RMS. As a starting point set the slider to about -16 dB and process. Keep in mind RMS Normalization will affect the average volume. Very different compared to Peak Normalization.

Also, check out the Levelator. It's a stand alone tool designed to process spoken word segments.

http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/

-paul.

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