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11.1.48 Meta-normalizer

This dialog allows you to adjust the loudness of each Clip so that they get the same loudness.

You can use it to equalize the volume of all the Clips within a montage, either by peak level

or loudness. This can be an easy way to ensure that all Clips playback at a similar volume.

You can choose to only equalize the volume of selected Clips, and effects can be excluded

if you wish.

This tool is to achieve the same level of loudness in all Clips (the highest loudness found, if

possible), while ensuring that no Clip will cause sample clipping.

For each Clip, a speciﬁc gain is computed by the algorithm after all Clips have been analyzed

(and prior to changing the Clip gain to achieve the common loudness). If it is not possible to

match the highest found loudness, the level of the Clip with the highest loudness is reduced,

so that other Clips can achieve the same loudness.

To avoid clipping the Master Section you can also normalize the mixdown output of the mon-

tage (before it goes into the Master Section), and/or the Master Section output.

You can access this dialog from the Audio Montage Workspace by choosing Tools > Meta-

normalizer....

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