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Understanding audio meters, dynamic range, and clipping

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Understanding audio meters, dynamic range, and clipping

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- You need to constantly monitor how loud your audio is, not only to maintain uniformity but also to make sure that your audio does not clip. If the audio is so loud that the media cannot reproduce it, the result sounds distorted and that's not good. Also all audio material has a dynamic range Dynamic range is the difference between the loudest part and the softest part of your audio. And it is measured in decibels. Depending on which genre of audio you're working with, you need to have a wider or narrower dynamic range. Classical music and jazz, for example, have a much wider dynamic range than pop or rock. By the same token, a narration will have a very narrow dynamic range. Let's go ahead and open Sequence 2.1. Again, let's go to the project panel, open sequences, and let's just open 2.1. Now I would like to loop this playback and just like what we did with the source panel, let's go ahead and do it with the program panel. Click on the button editor icon. This is this little plus…

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