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How to make compressed audio loop without audible gap?
I am trying to create an M4A (MP3) audio track which must loop without audible gap.
I've heard that compressed audio is padded with silence at the end to fill up missing samples i …
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122 views
What do you use for video file conversion?
I get a wide array of video file types despite me specifying what I want. I was wondering what does everyone use to convert the video to something more manageable for pro tools?
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2answers
452 views
Leq (A) specifications
Hi guys, this is the first time i post on this forum, although i've been reading quite often in the last few months.
I've got an issue on something i just came across.
I'm editi …
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1answer
317 views
Dialogue Chain Differences: TV versus Film
How is your processing chain different? Certainly, limiting and dialnorm requirements are different...but what about your actual processing? Do you step compress on some genres an …
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5answers
325 views
The purpose of Threshold, Knee and ratio in a compressor (discussion)
I would just like a get eveyone's view on the purposes/"what they do" on a compressor.
They way I understand it is, the threshold is the dB level that is reached by a signal that …
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1answer
128 views
Space Saving Archive Format
I was in a debate with some game designers I work with about the best archiving format.
What it inevitably came down to was a really dumb test, in which the results were futile in …
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4answers
239 views
What kind of compression does my audio go through when it undergoes Dolby AC3 Codec ?
In an Optical medium, The Dolby Digital print has a 5776 dots each representing a bit of data in one perforation. Therefore 4 perforations per frame and 96 perforations in one seco …
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0answers
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Best compressor for - Focusrite ISA One Classic Preamp
Hello,
I need to know which is the best recommend compressor working with the Focusrite ISA One Classic Preamp. I am recording narration, NOT singing. I would like to make the au …
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3answers
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Best way to bounce down using Pro Tools?
Hello
I have been syncing a trailer today and things are sounding good but none of the sounds reach 0db on the master fader.
Is is best to compress each audio track or each clip? …
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2answers
493 views
cutting foley/footsteps through compression?
Anyone do this? We're looking to tweak our chain somewhat, and one of the more obvious things is to go ahead and compress some of those quick transients out on the cut side of fol …
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1answer
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When you are mixing dialogue, compression settings for stem
When you are mixing dialogue and you have it all mixed, what is your strategy for compressing the rest of it? I understand that multiband compression is commonly used but do you t …
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7answers
932 views
in reality, do you believe convolution compression can work?
convolution reverb is a well known thing to us all... however, what about convolution compression? can it work? what do you think?
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326 views
Remixing For The Internet?
I was wondering if there were any quick approaches from taking a soundtrack that has a wide dynamic range (film) and compressing it for something like the internet, where most thin …
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5answers
396 views
How to widen a sound effects dynamics? Uncompression?
Hey guys,
I have done a lot of sound design using some punches, body falls, kicks, etc. that were mashed and mastered and normalized and compressed and every-which-way processed.
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Video Compression
How do you compress a video so that it is a manageable size for protools? What codec do you recommend and what is a manageable size for LE? The original video is 360 mb and it is …