[ADOBE® TV] [tv.adobe.com] If you're creating content for broadcasts, [Colin Smith - Sr.
Solutions Consultant] there are new loudness standards that you must comply with because if you don't, your content could get rejected.
There's a new Loudness Radar by TC Electronic inside both Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro.
It's filled with all of the broadcast standards.
So if you stay within those local standards, you can guarantee that you're going to meet those loudness standards.
Let's go have a look.
Inside Adobe Audition I have created 3 different buses.
There's a dialog bus, a music bus, and my master bus just for this example.
I'm going to open up the Loudness Radar that I've applied to the master bus and just reset that and hit Play.
You'll notice that we get an outside meter that goes around here, but then we get this inside radar that's showing us overall sound.
And what's great about this is it provides us with a loudness history so we can easily see how our program is doing.
We can also see down at the bottom the Loudness Range and the overall Program Loudness.
So tremendous ways to work.
What I'm also going to do is open up the music bus and I'll go to my dialog bus, and you'll notice that each one of these has a Loudness Radar on it.
I love this because you can now balance each one visually between them. [man speaking] I don't know that a lot of people really get Danny Way.
[Smith] So the yellow area is the higher level, obviously.
You don't want to exceed that.
And the blue level is too low.
So you want to stay between the green and the yellow level.
The blue level will actually be below the noise floor and be difficult for someone to even hear.
I can tell already that the music bus is lower than the dialog bus.
That's perfect.
Dialog bus is not too hot, and my overall broadcast level is also okay.
This is based on one of the standards.
I can actually go in here and look at different standards, and I can even pause this and I can see what these measurements are based on different standards.
You'll notice that I have the Default standard, ATSC standards, a CD Master, a Cinema standard, EBU and TR standards.
Each one of these is setting all of these.
So as I change them, you'll notice those settings change.
So what are they?
The first one defines the overall Target Loudness.
The next is the Radar Speed.
This radar right now is going pretty quick, but if I pop this up you'll notice I can take this all the way up to 24 hours, and that's going to give me the overall history of my loudness.
And the Radar Resolution, this is the spacing between here, and I can have that either as 3 dBs all the way up to 12 dBs.
Then there's the Momentary Range.
You've got 2 choices: +9, which is intended for normal broadcasts, or +18 for film drama and wide range music.
This is the lowest level, the difference between the blue and green levels.
If it goes too low down in here, it will be below the noise floor, and your audience won't hear that.
This is the overall Loudness Units.
There's 3 choices here.
There's one for the International Telecommunication Union, European Broadcasting Union, and the target value for EBU and ITU.
The overall Loudness Standard that you want to choose and then the Peak Indicator.
That's this little peak right up here.
It will light up red if you've exceeded that Peak Indicator.
So again, when I hit Play, you can now balance this, the Loudness Radar overall, and really have a great idea of how your broadcast is shaping up.
There's no limit to how many of these Loudness Radars you want to have on there-- maybe just 1 on the dialog for an interview and 1 on the master.
It's totally up to you.
The Loudness Radar by TC Electronic is both in Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition.
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