here's an old guide i did a while ago. note, i use Audacity 2.1.0 since the newer versions removed/changed some effects i use. here are the 2.1.0 links for windows:
portableapps audacity:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portabl...0Portable/
direct 2.1.0 download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portabl...e/download
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The key to my volume balancing is:
* movie compression with Chris’s Dynamic Compressor 1.2.6 plugin
* rifftrax compression with Level Speech plugin
* movie auto-duck -18db
* rifftrax amp ~ -12.3db (I tweak this depending on the riff and movie, -12.5, -12.20, etc)
Chris’s Dynamic Compressor 1.2.6 plugin for Audacity:
>> appears in Audacity Effect menu as "Compress dynamics 1.2.6..."
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/chris...essor.html
https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-...-audacity/
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=149994
DOWNLOAD:
https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/apps/ch...-1_2_6.zip
Level Speech plugin for Audacity:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic....46&t=91671
DOWNLOAD:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=9658
bsg4you detailed synch steps: (sorry, it's kind of rough)
* riff: mute opening song
* riff: copy intro comments to end
* riff: delete tagline and legal statement at end, create 1sec gap between mkb farewell and intro comments
* riff: mute intro comments
* riff: use text file to approximate synch with first dis line, delete start of riff to match
* riff: check first dis to fine tune synch, delete start of riff to match >> sometimes first dis line isn't in time with movie or dis says it at the wrong pace
* riff: duplicate riff track and mute as a backup and for dis line qa
* riff: check synch of each dis line, mute, then check again against muted riff backup, ALSO note any curse beep times
* riff: 2nd pass, check for and remove stray mumbling and chuckles, also mute studio pops/ticks
* all: reset all track volumes to 0.0 (i adjust these initially when doing the dis synch stuff)
* riff export: 155 quality (~96kbps) aac just synch no dis line riff mono backup
* delete backup riff at bottom of audacity window
* movie: noclip.amp to 0.0
* movie: chris compress dynamics 1.2.6: comp.ratio+0.600(custom) comp.hard+0.500(default) floor-20.0(custom) noise.gate+0.00(default) max.amp+1.00(custom)
* TOURBLESHOOTING: if selecting the whole movie and doing chris results in nothing happening, select from 0.100s to end and apply chris, it should then work
* movie: hard limiter: db.limit-1.0(custom) wet+1.0(default) residue+0.0(default)
* riff: level.speech-95 << selected whole riff, selected level speech, got an error pop up, dismissed it, got the options, set 95 and hit apply << no pop up the 2nd time
* movie: auto-duck: duck-18.0(custom) defaults: 1 0.5 0.5 0 0 -30
* riff: amp new peak = -12.3
* riff: check if intro sounds too loud at end (it depends if the movie is loud or quiet during intro); also lower dis -1.5 or so depending on how it sounds
* riff: amp bit of level countdown at end of intro comments to riff.max (sometimes mike's voice gets really quiet during his "3, 2, 1, pause")
* amp.net(-9) on credits music (chris can make a loud credits music sequence super loud, this fixes it)
* curse beeps: do amp -9 to -15 (i don't like loud beeps)
* export of 3 channels (2 movie and 1 rifftrax) to 2: WAVE and use external audio encoder -or- do audacity aac export at 155 quality
* add subs, mux
* add named chapters
* mediainfo and gmkvextractgui checks
* qa listen for good volume balance, visually check audacity for curse beeps and missed synch lines in waveform while listening
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