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Old 7th May 2018, 19:02   #161  |  Link
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Originally Posted by kolamorx View Post
Hello.
I've read your documentation about the maximum gain factor, that ususally it's not recommended to increase the value above the default but sometimes it may be necessary to allow higher gain factors.
So if I understood correctly (and from my experience), when you have to allow higher gain factors, it's better to set it as less value as possible.
No matter what you do, the gain factor for each frame will never be allowed to exceed the frame's local max. gain factor – the maximum that this particular frame could be amplified without any clipping (distortion).

Furthermore, the actual gain factor applied to a frame will usually be even lower than the "local max. gain factor", because we apply a minimum filter followed by a Gaussian smoothing filter to each "neighborhood" (sliding window) of frames.

The "max. gain factor" option is an additional hard limit on the maximum gain factor that can be applied to frame. This mostly exists to avoid humongous amplification factors in extremely quiet (almost silent) sections of the file.

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What free tool for Windows do you recommend for volume measurement, so I can get data about the dialogue volume levels in some scenes per movie (which sometimes are very low), in order to set the maximum gain factor as less value as possible?
This tool, for example, can create a graph of the "loudness" (ITU BS.1770 and CBS) of a given file:
https://www.orban.com/meter/
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