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audio compression

When and How to Use Audio Compression

Audio compression helps smooth out your recordings. Here’s how it works and when you should use it. Audio Compression: arguably one of the more complex-yet-useful audio effects out there. Seeing countless forums of aspiring audio engineers asking whether compression is…

light meter

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Light Meters

In this introduction, we’ll discuss one of the single best tools available to image makers — the light meter.  Exposure light meters measure the amount of light in a scene to help photographers and cinematographers determine the proper exposure settings…

How to Normalize Audio Clips in NLEs

One of the most frustrating things that can happen to us as video editors is working with (and ending up) with poor audio. The reasons one might end up with bad audio can range from unfavorable equipment to recording conditions…