Hi! I would be very careful with compression, I run a sound recording studio, use premiere for some video-work on the side. I have found the compressors in premiere to be not too good, not too bad either. Some compressors/levellers will adjust the volume nice and smooth, you almost cannot hear the compressor in the finished material. Others you can hear a lot more, you get "pumping", "metallic" character in the sound, lotsa noise etc. Premiere has got the two latter ones if youre not very careful.
Ofcourse, settings are the key, combined with the internal algoritm of the plugin you�re using. Best I have found in software, is Waves RCL. But premiere doesnt like this one. Settings I use, is shortest possible attack, 5 seconds release, ratio from 1,5 to 10. Have to use your ears here, listen to what is best. Threshold I set so that the compressor always "touch" the sound. But: I wouldnt do this with a shorter release. Using such a short attack, I also compress "s" and "t" etc in a big way. If you like those letters to pass the compressor almost untouched, set attack to from 15ms to 60 ms. See if you find any info on the net about audio dynamics, levelling. Levelling is a sort of compression, but a "careful" one. Using premieres own compressor and multiband compressor, I sometimes get some crazy distortion, in low mid to bass frequenzies. My two latest movies, I finished sound by exporting dialog track out of premiere, into sound forge , used waves noise reduction and RCL compressor in sound forge, saved audio, reimported to premiere. For the future I think I might do all soundwork in Pro Tools or Sonar, and leave only video up to premiere. When the project gets big in audio (10 - 20 tracks with plugins), I have more than too often found that premiere will not open the projetcs after a save, and that suddenly one track starts to distort in a big way, solution has been to kill all plugins, slide the audio of that track to another track, cross my fingers, and prepare for a long night of hazzle. Usually I get it sorted somehow. Well well, that was a mouthful I guess. Cheers, Paal At 10:56 20.01.2005, you wrote: >Better to put a insert-plug-in in your mixer. The limiter / Compressor >plug-in > >does the job you want ( dynamically ). But I suggest that you first do some > >research in how compressors and limiters work. > > > >My explanation; > >Compressors compress the sound to a given parameter. So it is possible to > >Keep the sound around -10 DB dynamically (mostly the gain parameter), use >the > >The limiter to set the maximum DB level. So if setup right the compressor >will > >Blow the weak signals and the limiter will limit the strong signals keeping >a so called > >Controlled sound volume. > > > > > >Excuse me for my English (Dutch is my mother language!) > >Menoj. > > > > _____ > >Van: Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Verzonden: woensdag 19 januari 2005 16:27 >Aan: [email protected] >Onderwerp: RE: [AP] Audio Problems > > > >In 6.5 there is an option for normalizing the gain. I believe it is >called Smart Gain. > >-----Original Message----- >From: georgeformbyjnrfan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:30 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [AP] Audio Problems > > >Hi, >I have just been listening to the 25 minutes of footage I have so >far edited of a holiday from several years ago. >The trouble is, the audio levels go up and down throughout it, due >to things like my narration recorded at the time, vehicles passing >by and other things here and there. >I would like the sound levels to be constant throughout the entire >footage. >Is it possible to do this please? >Regards, >Peter > > > > > > _____ > >Yahoo! Groups Links >* To visit your group on the web, go to: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ > >* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Service. > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > _____ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > >* To visit your group on the web, go to: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ > >* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Service. > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.0 - Release Date: 17.01.2005 > > > >-- incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265 - Release Date: 17.01.2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.0 - Release Date: 17.01.2005 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
