Curtis Judd 11/2/16 Curtis Judd 11/2/16

Sound for Video Session: Loudness Normalization in Izotope RX5

For this week's session, we'll demonstrate how to loudness normalize your sound with Izotope RX 5.

Making your dialogue sound loud and present is a bit of a mystery for many independent filmmakers. It is surprising how many of the channels with large audiences have poor quality audio which is either very quiet so that viewers have to crank up the volume, or where the filmmaker cranked up the amplitude or gain of the audio in post to the point where there is plenty of distortion and clipping.

In this episode, we'll show one way to make loud, present sound without clipping or distortion.

Links we discussed in this session:

Free Compression Plugin: MCompressor

iZotope’s special deals on RX through November 14th 2016.

Curtis Judd 9/4/16 Curtis Judd 9/4/16

Sound for Video Session: Loudness vs Peaks and Cameras vs Audio Gear

This week we discuss a question from Kevin (AKA The Basic Filmmaker) on why the peaks are always at different levels after you loudness normalize an audio clip. Then I rant for a while on why upgrading your camera every time a cool looking new camera may not be the best use of your budget.

Curtis Judd 8/25/16 Curtis Judd 8/25/16

Sound for Video Session: Aiming Mics, Loudness, and Batteries

In this week's sound for video session, we addressed several questions:

Should I aim my boom mic at the talent's mouth or at their chest?
What are the loudness wars and are they over?
Tell us about batteries: Sony NP-F/L Type and Anton Bauer
How come when I loudness normalize audio clips, sometimes their peaks hit -3dB and sometimes they hit -6dB? Is this right?

This was our first week trying this on YouTube since Google Hangouts on Air is going away. A few lessons learned. Talk with you again next week!

Curtis Judd 12/22/15 Curtis Judd 12/22/15

Make Your Sound Loud in Premiere Pro CC 2015.1

Need a quicker, more efficient way to make the sound for your video projects loud and consistent? Premiere Pro CC 2015.1 has a new audio loudness normalization feature which can make this quick and easy. In this episode we review why you should loudness normalize your audio for video projects and how to quickly do it when exporting your video from Premiere Pro CC.

Curtis Judd 10/16/15 Curtis Judd 10/16/15

Louder Dialogue Audio with Audacity

https://youtu.be/L1FLali0xLk We’ve done a lot of tutorials on processing audio and sound with Adobe Audition but many have asked how to do the same things in Audacity, which is, of course, free. The trick with Audacity is that it lacks certain features that can be critical for getting consistent results, namely, loudness processing and metering tools. But when you’re first starting, you may not yet have the budget for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. So if I were in that situation, here is how I would use Audacity to sort of accomplish the same thing (though not as consistently). Make your dialogue audio louder (without being too loud).

You can download and use Audacity for free - no strings attached, its open-source.