![]() So to do that, I'm just going to select my track, go up to the Multitrack menu, down to Bounce to New Track, and I'm going to choose Selected Track. So what I need to do is make all of these clips here on the track into a single clip that I can open in the waveform editor before I can get those statistics. I can only use this is the waveform editor, and that's why this scan button here is actually grayed out right now. The only probably is is that it's not available in the multitrack editor where I am now. I'll just expand this so I can see it a little bit better, and this provides some incredibly useful information about clips. So I'm going to go to the amplitude statistics panel by choosing Window, Amplitude Statistics, and here it is over here. ![]() Now before I jump in and start playing with compression, I like to get a little bit of information about the track that I'm working on. Just Edit, Undo, Edit, Undo, Edit, Undo to get back to where we were before. And that's why keyframing is actually the last thing I do to dialog and only if it's something that a compressor can't fix. So it will automatically find those louder peaks for me and then turn them down. Now what you might be tempted to do is keyframe your audio so go to your volume control here, and add a point here and add a point here and then just drag down this peak here, and while this is certainly going to solve my problem, the only issue is that this is a very manual process and it means I'm going to have to go through all of the audio clips in my session, visually identify those peaks, and then adjust them whereas with compression, it's an automated process. So why is this a problem? Well, firstly, it's going to limit how loud I can make the overall voice because I have to make room for these occasional peaks, but also, when it comes to combining this track with music, it means I'll have to turn the music down much lower so I can hear these softer moments in the voice. And just by looking at this file, you can already see that it's got quite a wide dynamic range, so we have some real high peaks in the dialog here, but a lot of the other speech is much softer around this level here, and this is not uncommon when you're recording people who are not professional voiceover artists. Just give us a little bit more screen real estate. ![]() I probably don't need my essential sound panel here, so I'm just going to close that. So I'm just going to zoom in on this a little bit and I'll adjust my scroll bar as well so I can make it nice and high. So I might just focus on this track here for now. When you hear the word compression, you're probably thinking about file compression, which is used to reduce the size of a file, but in audio, compression also refers to reducing the peaks in a waveform to level out the volume. ![]() Earlier we looked at adjusting the overall loudness of each of these dialog clips, but now it's time to adjust the volume within the clip itself, and a great way to do that is by using compression. ![]()
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