Compression for Dialogue Audio - Presets for Video Editors - Quick and Dirty

Are you a video editor and cannot or will not round-trip your audio over to an audio editing app to compress and even out your sound? If so, here’s a quick and dirty way to use a compressor and adjust two quick settings to get your audio sounding consistent and loud enough. Not my first recommendation, but works in a pinch for videos that aren’t that precious or important.

Here’s how I’d really work on audio loudness when the sound really matters:    • Understanding How to Loudness Normalize Yo...  

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Index:
00:00 Start
00:07 Summary
00:17 Introduction
00:37 Presets
00:52 Problems with Presets
01:22 What went wrong?
01:40 Default settings
02:09 How to adjust threshold
02:45 How to adjust make-up gain
03:12 Premiere Pro Loudness Normaliztion
03:35 WARNING
03:57 Please buy my courses