One of our clients wants us to use a LUFS Meter. Is there a way to use this type of meter within avid or a plug in?
Thanks!
iZotope Insight (trial included in MC Installer zip, IIRC), Nugen VisLM, Avid Pro Limiter, and quite a few other AAX plugins will work in MC. Add them to your Master bus.
http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2013/12/13/loudness-metering-round-up-and-reviews.html
thanks. Anything around $100 that's reliable and works within avid that monitors the entire mix?
Strictky speaking, if you work in a calibrated room, you should be able to mix by ear, then use a normalizer like Grimm LevelNorm to bring the result up to spec.
Also, the Hofa4U Meter is free, I think. Google led me to a cheap one by Klangfreund and another one by ToneBoosters. Haven't tested either in Mc myself, though. Theoretically they should work, in realtime, applied to the master bus.
I use this, simple but works
http://www.tcelectronic.com/lm1n/
I can recommend and use PPMulatorXL, it's 100 euros for the EBU128/LUFS version and works very well with MC on the master out, and any point you wish. It is very accurate and agrees with my physical outboard meters. It has various QC reporting features too. The free Hofa one mentioned is good too but is not very pretty or clear in it's interface.
I would not recommend mixing for final output by ear alone as was mentioned, even in a calibrated room, the technical standards mandated now particularly in Europe with loudness and EBU128 make that quite difficult. Even under the older PPM days this would of been almost impossible.
Jason NLC:Anything around $100 that's reliable
If money it's the object there's a few free meters that will take a wav file and scan it, outputting a report with timecodes for illegal values, google is Your friend; it's not realtime in MC and requires a wav export to work though, I'd invest a few hundreds to have the comfort to keep it all within MC, or tell the client to finish the sound with a proper mixing professional on a dedicated system/studio and not in the NLE with a video editor.
peace luca
Mercer:I would not recommend mixing for final output by ear alone as was mentioned, even in a calibrated room, the technical standards mandated now particularly in Europe with loudness and EBU128 make that quite difficult.
The thinking behing R128 was that you would not need to rely so much on your meters as was the case in the PPM days. I can't comment how that works out for everyday use, but the idea was that mixers could go back to mixing by ears rather than meters, then adjust the result to R128 specs (which would generally mean just a 1 or 2dB correction over the entire mix).
But this might be more theoretical than practical. Just trying to explain why I wrote that.
A lot of us have Adobe CC - Audition has a free LUFS/LKFS meter (one of the best) tc electronic built in.
John
Can we go back to the way audio nodes used to be selected? Please? ie if you have audio nodes at the same time on selected tracks; then selecting 1 audio node selects them all at that time. Having to shift select nodes or add an in and out is time consuming and counter productive. At least make it an option.
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