Audio meter

I am trying to do a sound mix and so far I have trouble seeing anything on the built in audio meters. I digitized via AJA breakout box from Beta SP and I understand that my 0dB on the Beta tape is now a -12 dB on the audio meter. The only trouble is that the meters are so small in the -24dB to -12 dB range that it is virtually impossible to tell anything. Is there a way to calibrate or expand them ?

Try using the Audio Mixer (Tools->Audio Mixer). You can stretch it out longer making it much easier to see. Not only does it show the two main output channels but also each individual track level you have selected.
-DH

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What's wrong with the audio meter?

Let me start off by saying that I know the problem I am going to report is a little bit complicated, if my limited grasp of English makes it even harder to understand, please let me know. I'll elaborate on it further.
At first, I was very happy with the CS6 because the audeo meter at the bottom right can show the volume of video EVEN WHEN i scrub through the clip in the viewer monitor. It is vital to me,because I am so used to editing based on the fluctuance of volume as I edited on FCP .However, I find the audio meter in premiere pro is kind of wonky. when I press left arrow or right arrow to move frame by frame, the the audio meter acts very strangely...I am not sure how to discribe it in words, but I'll give it a try here:
In FCP 7,the audio meter shows the volume in a very simple way: when I play the video frame by frame, the audio meter fluctuate correspondingly, to show the volume of that individual frame.
In PP, when I try to play frame by frame, the audio meter gives no reaction in the first couple of frames, then fluctuate . The most mind boggling thing is that when I stop playing the clip, instead of staying as the volume of the frame where I stop (as FCP does), the audio meter in PP slowly falls down to nothing. What gives? Can I have an audio meter in PP acting just like the one in FCP? Can anyone give me a hint of what's going on here? Thank you in advance!!

if you want the peaks to stay, right click on the audio meter and choose static peaks.
Todd recorded a great video about the audio meter and mixer here:
http://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/changes-to-the-audio-mixer-and-audio-meters-panels
this migh help.
as for the meter not moving the first few frames, i think, i can't help you.
and keep smiling

AHH! FLOATING AUDIO METER FAILS TO REGISTER EACH FRAME'S LEVEL!

I have a problem regarding the floating audio meter - ie, the small 2 track meter that usually sits next to the tools strip in the standard window setup. For some reason, when I scroll along clips in my timeline (using the left/right arrow keys) it doesnt show the levels of each individual frame, nor does it produce the sound that should be heard from that specific frame. This is a huge problem for me, as I am trying hard to sync up clips to music, and I am now stuck with just guessing where I should cut it based on intuition. Also, along with the floating audio meter, the actual audio mixer doesn't register the levels either when trying to move frame by frame. I must make it clear that when in preview(play) mode, the audio does register and can be seen moving along with the sounds produced, but when i press space(stop) it(the level of audio) simply stays put, and does NOT change from the time that I last stopped playing the sequence.
If I am being to confusing, I am trying to be able to (while moving frame by frame with the arrow keys) see and literally hear each individual frame in efforts to make synchronizing a **** of a lot easier and more practical.
This has never been a problem before, and has just recently burdened me. I have tried restarting the settings/preferences, starting new projects, looking in the manual, etc. No dice. Can someone please help me restore FCP's ability to hear each frames audible material, as well as witness each specific decibel level of the individual frames as I arrow across?

Well...
if you make sure scrubbing is on, that would help.
You can also turn on the waveforms in the timeline tracks.
That should help too.

Connection betw. Sound Pref/VoiceOver Level/Floating Audio Meter

In working with the Voice Over tool, and trying to get my levels right, a few questions came up:
1. Do the settings in Apple Pref > Sound > Input need to be checked/verified each time a recording is made? (They seem to be reverting to some default setting on my system between recordings.)
2. How do the "Input volume" and "Input level" in Apple Pref > Sound > Input affect the "Level" in the "Input" section of the Voice Over Tool, and FCE's general "Floating Audio Meter"?
3. What's the relationship between the "Level" meter bar in the Voice Over Tool Bench and FCE's general Floating Audo Meter?
4. In the Voice Over Tool under "Headphones": How does headphone volume/db affect overall levels/mix?
*Thanks for helping me get a consolidated view on how these elements interact.*

Well...
if you make sure scrubbing is on, that would help.
You can also turn on the waveforms in the timeline tracks.
That should help too.

Audio Meter Issue

I'm having an interesting audio meter problem. Working on a DVCAM project in 6.0.2. Audio is captured as mono tracks. The audio meter doesn't show separate levels for channels 1 and 2. If I make the clip a linked stereo it show separate levels. When I remove the linked stereo and go back to mono the levels stay separated. I changed the sequence output to dual mono and it seems to have solved the problem but I think I may be missing a setting for the normal audio channel monitoring. Any ideas?

Source meters on the audio mixer read independent levels. It's the timeline meter that doesn't. I always thought it was a source reference.

FCE 3.5 Audio Meter Link to Frame Forward

I was watching a tutorial on FCE 4.0 and noticed that the audio meter changed as the arrow keys were used in viewer to move one frame forward or backward. Does this feature exist in 3.5? I'm unable to activate it. The audio meter works when I play a clip but not when moving frame by frame.

Turn on Audio Scrubbing in the View menu.
-DH

Audio Meter Quirk

Some of us have had an audio meter issue where clearly over-driven audio does not show as such in the main audio display window.
See this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24851017#24851017
I've discovered that such footage, if played backwards (using JKL keys) shows the correct levels, QUIRKY
Can anyone verify this result please?
Al

Thanks.
Thank you for taking initiative and following up on his suggestion yourself instead of posting back to ask what audio scrubbing is and where to find it!

Audio meter behavior

Why does the mini audio meter in the dashboard (next to the timecode) clip earlier than the large meters on the right? The peak lights come on and stay on at a lower level than the peak lights on the large meter.
Also, why does the meter have a +6 zone? Is that just to tell you how far over you are, but any outuput above 0 is still clipping?

It's true that the tiny meter is mostly useless, but why bother to include what "sticky" clipping lights above the rest of the meters if they don't actually indicate clipping? There's no other behavior which these could be indicating, and yet their clip level is inconsistent with the big meters. This has to be a bug.

Audio meter scale adjustment option

Is there any option to adjust the audio meter metering range? It's pretty useless for me to see +6 dB in the digital scale because it's already heavily over peak and distorted. I would like for the meter to only show up to 0 or +1 dBFS max. This way I can focus more on adjusting the fine range. Now it's a bit too wide of a range.

I don't know of a way to adjust the range of the meter, but if you open the Audio Mixer window, you'll get a much larger (adjustable window size), more detailed, easier to read scale.
-DH

Is this normal audio meter behaviour? Seems a little funky to me...

I've seen some strange audio metering behaviour in the past so delved into it a little...
I created a sequence with two 'standard' tracks and cut in mono tone to both tracks.
I panned A1 to the left (in the clip mixer) and A2 to the right
I increased the gain on the A1 clip by 10dB for identification purposes.
When I mute A2 I get the following on the meters:
and everything appears as I would expect. A1 is a stereo track, but is panned left so only has audio showing on the left leg - and this is replicated on the A1 track mixer meter and on the master output meter on both the track mixer and the main meters. All good so far.
When I unmute A2 and mute A1 I get the following:
again all as expected, this time on the right leg.
When I unmute A1 and listen to both tracks I get the following:
Now the master output metering is correct but I do not understand why the right leg of A1 clip & track mixers are showing level, nor the left leg of A2. Bug?

Hi Tofig,
As you rightly said, this behaviour is by design.
As far as I understand, the owners need not be given the approver permission considering them to be mostly from technical background. They may not necessarily be good at content authoring and design and keeping them away from the approver group may
avoid any language related goof-ups (punctuations, grammatical errors etc.)
On the other hand, if they are good at content authoring, the site owners can be included in the Approver group, to avoid getting this message. This message also goes away once any of the user under Approver group, approves the changes.
Cheers :)
LM

Plugin for bigger audio meter

Hello and Happy new Year !!!
Just would like to get a plugin (free or not bur free would be better) to have a bigger VU meter for my poor small eyes
thx

Go to the Tools menu and choose "Audio Mixer." Once the window is open, size it to however larger you like it.
-DH

Exporting audio meta data for Speech Analysis.

Working on a video project that has about 4hrs of recorded audio. Using Premiere Pro CS6/Media Encoder's Speech Analysis I processed all of these audio tracks which added the "Analysis Text" to their metadata.
I need to provide all of this text to my copywriter so he can construct a copy deck, which will be used for other media.
Does anyone have an efficient way to (batch) export all of the metadata for each clip, even more specifically, just this particular property (as he won't be interested in the other standard metadata)? I would want to dump it into a large .doc along with the relevant file name.
I'll then provide him with mp3s of the audio so he can listen and proof the copy – as I imagine there will need to be quite a few corrections made.
If there isn't a magic-bullet solution, I would of course need to find the next best option, e.g. export as mp3s, and see if I can embed all that metadata in them. Then provide him with some way to view that content while he plays the files back. Keeping in mind I'm not working with tech-savy individuals on that side of the procesess. I would have loved to have them just open Prelude and be done with it.
I appreaciate the thoughts.
Stephen

As I mentioned in my post, I was looking for a way to "batch export" all of the clips, as I have 50+ for this particular shoot alone.
Surely I can't be the first person who wanted to externalize all that content.
Thanks.

Audio Meter Problem - timeline/program audio not displayed in meters - clip audio is fine?

Just downloaded Premiere Pro CC and imported project from earlier version of the programme. On playing any of the audio/video clips in the clip monitor the audio meters work fine. When playing from the timeline/programme monitor there is absolutely no response on the audio meters. Anybody got any ideas on how to fix this?

I read a post about a user having this same sort of issue.
He said when he turns off his video layer, in my case just V1, the audio played fine.
Same with mine.
So it seems to be an issue with the video track playing with the audio track.
If i export it and bring it back in, will it just create that same audio glitch?
Guess i will have to try.
Anyone have this issue or similiar?
Thanks,
Brian

Itunes produces no audio as the audio meter moves right

I have called Apple for help but they would not help me unless I paid $40! What must I do to play music on my pair of Philips computer speakers.

I checked and it's already checked to open in 32-bit. I was thinking it had something to do with the codec. I looked at all of my other videos that I've shared with iTunes, and their quicktime versions are all "Apple Pro-Res." My video that isn't working had the codec, "h.624." So I recently exported the video out of FCPX with the codec "Apple Pro-Res (HQ) and it still didn't play in iTunes. So now I'm exporting it as just Apple Pro-Res, without the (HQ). I'll see if that works.

I have video clips with 4 channels of audio, I can only hear audio recorded on channel one, how do I hear the other channels......?

I have video clips with 4 channels of audio, I can only hear audio recorded on channel one, how do I hear the other channels......?

What version of Premiere Elements and on what computer operating system?     Elements 13 on Windows 7
What is the brand/model/settings of the camera that recorded these videos?        ony PMW 320
When you import them into your Premiere Elements project, what does Premiere Elements Properties for that import give for
the audio description in the way of number of channels? If you open the Audio Meter (Window Menu/Audio Meters) and you play back
the video in the Premiere Elements Editor, how many channels does the Audio Meter display?
I just drag and drop video and when playing back only channel 1 will appear
What is your intended export for this video in terms of audio as well as video compression and formats?    MP4
I think you can only use audio if it's recorded on channel 1 or it does not recognize it.
Thanks for the help if possible,Kevin416 873 8374

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