Understanding How to Loudness Normalize Your Audio for Video

In a previous episode, we covered the difference between volume and loudness and introduced the loudness metrics LUFS and LKFS. In this video, we talk about how to loudness normalize the audio for you videos in conceptual terms with a practical example. For the example, we edit our video and mix the audio in DaVince Resolve and then loudness normalize the audio mix in Izotope RX. But the goal here is to show you the concept so that you can adapt loudness normalization into your workflow.

Please watch part 1 first where we cover what loudness is: https://youtu.be/nOzZKEWJ5wk

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Index: 00:00 Start 00:12 Summary 00:22 Watch the previous video 1st 00:29 We Don’t Have Settings for You 00:43 Edit Your Video 01:05 Clean up Audio Clips 01:34 Mix Your Audio 01:57 Bounce or Export Mix 02:57 Tools for Loudness Normalization 03:50 Measure Loudness and Headroom 05:06 How Much Headroom Do You Need to Hit Your Loudness Target? 06:45 Compress or Level to Make Headroom 08:23 Boost Levels to Your Loudness Target 09:15 Final Cleanup 10:26 Bring Mix Back to Video Editing App 10:32 Export Video With Loudness Normalized Audio 10:54 Other Apps 11:40 Please Buy My Courses ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNhxGojFRU