Johnny Utah
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I have a project that requires dialnorm to be at -24dbfs, is there an audio effect i can use to set this ??
Setting Dialnorm? How do you do this?
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Johnny Utah
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Dialnorm is quite a bit different than that. It's the "absolute value of a power sum of the A-weighted audio level in all digital channels" and any broadcaster I've dealt with usually measures it as dialog/voiceover only.
http://www.channld.com/audioleak/ is probably the only non-hardware based way I know of to easily measure dialnorm.
It's basically the amount of "power" in dialog... the main chunk of volume in dialog hangs around -24db with occasional peaks (depending on how compressed the signal is). It's a decent indicator of overall program volume as music, sound effects, etc are mixed around dialog levels.
With a music video you should get a recommendation from your broadcaster. Music tracks are usually mastered "hot" which means it's consistently powerful with a good amount of compression... and you can't really judge dialnorm off of it.
-10db tends to be the max audio level, but your broadcaster might have you normalize audio to -18db or something as a compromise to dialnorm.
... yes, dialnorm is hard to understand, but it's simply a measurement, not a program setting.
I found my answer, thanks though.
http://www.channld.com/audioleak/ is probably the only non-hardware based way I know of to easily measure dialnorm.
It's basically the amount of "power" in dialog... the main chunk of volume in dialog hangs around -24db with occasional peaks (depending on how compressed the signal is). It's a decent indicator of overall program volume as music, sound effects, etc are mixed around dialog levels.
With a music video you should get a recommendation from your broadcaster. Music tracks are usually mastered "hot" which means it's consistently powerful with a good amount of compression... and you can't really judge dialnorm off of it.
-10db tends to be the max audio level, but your broadcaster might have you normalize audio to -18db or something as a compromise to dialnorm.
... yes, dialnorm is hard to understand, but it's simply a measurement, not a program setting.
I found my answer, thanks though.