Correcting audio

Once you've got good solid scenes, you want to make sure to go through all of them with…a fine-toothed comb, and make sure you've got a good audio mix.…Now, even though this is the rough cut and an audio mix will be performed on the sequence…later in the post-production workflow, you still want to make sure that everything is sounding good.…Now, for a fuller explanation on audio editing, you can see my Media Composer Essentials course on lynda.com.…But here, I'll go through a basic overview of making sure you have got a good sound mix.…All right, so I've got the second scene here, my Meet BD scene, and I want to play it.…

But first I am going to open the Audio Editing Workspace.…And as I play this, I want you to notice where it's peaking.…I will tell you that normal sounds, so the human voice or BD's voice, should peak right…between -20 and -14 here on the digital scale, or between 0 and 6 here on the analog scale.…Loud sounds can peak higher in this region, and quieter sounds or background sounds can peak lower.…