Software to modify the average volume of an audio file
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Ideally free to use or very cheap to purchase as I have limited requirement for it.
I have a couple of family video files where the volume range makes them almost un-viewable.
If turned to a volume to hear ordinary conversation, loud interjections in the conversation make the speakers rattle and if turned to a volume to keep that within tolerable limits, average conversation can be lost completely.
I am able to manage the audio separate from the video and restitch them after audio modifications.
As the interjections can be adult male, female or child I don't think an equaliser will quite do the job.
Thanks for any suggestions
I have a couple of family video files where the volume range makes them almost un-viewable.
If turned to a volume to hear ordinary conversation, loud interjections in the conversation make the speakers rattle and if turned to a volume to keep that within tolerable limits, average conversation can be lost completely.
I am able to manage the audio separate from the video and restitch them after audio modifications.
As the interjections can be adult male, female or child I don't think an equaliser will quite do the job.
Thanks for any suggestions
Yep Audacity is the tool for this, in particular the compressor should solve your issues.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/compressor.htm...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/compressor.htm...
Thanks for that.
It looks to have potential.
It may take a while to get this to work as none of the audio file types I can extract seem to satisfy Audacity and while it suggests installing ffmpeg, it's already installed and refuses to find it.
I will report back when I have fought through this step but as I have a process currently using ffmpeg that's been running for 20 hours and is about to complete, I'm not going to risk anything for a bit.
It looks to have potential.
It may take a while to get this to work as none of the audio file types I can extract seem to satisfy Audacity and while it suggests installing ffmpeg, it's already installed and refuses to find it.
I will report back when I have fought through this step but as I have a process currently using ffmpeg that's been running for 20 hours and is about to complete, I'm not going to risk anything for a bit.
Turtle Shed said:
Free trial of Adobe Premiere Pro is an option.
Thanks.Likely a good option but the trial period is a bit too short for my current needs.
There isn't much to do but it will take more than a week given other pressures.
It may be time to consider a licensed version soon...
Installed ffmpeg for Audacity.
It allowed me to open the necessary file types.
It's a bit complicated for a novice but I soon discovered that Legacy Limiter will produce a favourable result.
As best as I can determine is that it 'simply', but cleverly reduces peak db which allows me to set a higher volume thus giving the overall effect I was looking for.
I found that the Compressor, both new and Legacy, created an enormous amount of distortion; worst case scenario across the entire audio file when imported into the final production software (just VSDC at this point).
I will continue to experiment.
Thanks again.
It allowed me to open the necessary file types.
It's a bit complicated for a novice but I soon discovered that Legacy Limiter will produce a favourable result.
As best as I can determine is that it 'simply', but cleverly reduces peak db which allows me to set a higher volume thus giving the overall effect I was looking for.
I found that the Compressor, both new and Legacy, created an enormous amount of distortion; worst case scenario across the entire audio file when imported into the final production software (just VSDC at this point).
I will continue to experiment.
Thanks again.
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