Walter Marvin Productions http://www.waltermarvin.com Creating Entertainng and Intriguing Videos For The Web Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:48:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Using Normalization Gain http://www.waltermarvin.com/audio/using-normalization-gain/ http://www.waltermarvin.com/audio/using-normalization-gain/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:02:31 +0000 Doug http://www.waltermarvin.com/?p=139 What do you do when you’ve got a piece of audio for your video that is too low?  Sure you try to raise the gain, but the high peaks start to clip, and you’re going to get distortion. So what’s a boy to do?

The first step… Try applying a normalization gain. What does this do?

A normalization gain increasees the gain of your audio all the way up to the point of clipping  (-0db) and stopping.  This allows you to bring up your original audio as high as it can before distortion.  Pretty sweet huh?

Try this technique the next time your audio is just a little bit too low.  There is one caveat to this little trick however.  What happens when you’ve got some bangs and pops that are already maxing out your audio head room?  I’ll address that in future post.   Let me know if this little trick worked for you.

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Release Date: October 23, 2008
Website: Kim & Jason
Info: This parody was created for Kim & Jason as entertainment for their paid Club K&J Members as a public service help folks from taking Halloween too seriously.

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Release: September 26, 2008
Website: Safety Glasses Inc.
Info: Safety Glasses Inc. was looking for an entertaining way to showcase some of the nice testimonials they’d received over the past year, and this little video seemed to do the trick.

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Release: July 2, 2008
Website: Kim & Jason Speaking
Info: We created this video by editing together testimonials, speaking footage, and a new interview. The video’s main purpose was to inspire potential clients and event organizers to hire Jason for their next event.

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Release: April 15, 2008
Website: The Lemonade Stand
Info: This infomercial parody was created for the Lemonade Stand to sell the Moo Mixer Supreme. The results look like they jumped right off of late night TV.

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Release: February 6, 2008
Website: Make It Great Guy
 Info: Phil was looking for a simple video to introduce himself to his website visitors. He wanted it to be fun, entertaining, and informative. I think we were able to create an interesting video that made Phil’s visitors become acquaintances quickly.

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