Get Loud Audio for Your Video Fast with Noiseworks DynAssist

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In this episode, we demonstrate how to loudness optimize your audio for video quickly with a plugin called DynAssist from NoiseWorks Audio.

I have no association with NoiseWorks and they did not pay me to make this video. To learn more about DynAssist and their other plugins, you can find them at https://noiseworksaudio.com

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RODE Interview Pro microphone (this was recorded in a hotel room when I was traveling) — https://geni.us/6gna

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Sound Devices MixPre audio field recorders — https://geni.us/O8e0
Impact Turtle-Base C-Stands — https://geni.us/8a8tt
Aputure LS 600x Pro Bicolor LED Light — https://geni.us/EreRQa
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Amaran 300c RGBWW Single-Point LED Light — https://geni.us/uGkDX
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Rosco Prismatic Glass Gobo in Cool Lavender — https://geni.us/GWKt
Canon C70 Cinema Camera — https://geni.us/ABYB
Canon RF 24-70 f/2.8 lens — https://geni.us/qwsEs
Panasonic GH5 camera — https://geni.us/InspOl
Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 II lens — https://geni.us/gr47

The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://geni.us/G7by

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Index
00:00 The problem with loudness normalization
01:19 DynAssist - what’s unique about it?
01:40 Vocal rider (leveler)
02:08 AI Noise gate
02:21 Managing breaths
02:44 Managing sibilance
03:04 How DynAssist works
03:38 How to setup DynAssist
04:13 Sample audio (before)
04:55 Leveling/riding results
05:44 Sample audio (after)
06:26 Good, but missed some things
06:40 True peak headroom
07:32 Missed a breath
07:45 Fixing a missed breath
08:27 Summary
09:07 Please buy my courses