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normalizing audio volume on movies
How do I normalize the audio volume of a bunch of MOV and MP4 files?
The "Sound Check" option in iTunes works passably well for MP3 files, but doesn't do anything for videos. This makes it annoying to use a playlist full of music videos as a source of ambient entertainment, since the volume fluctuates wildly.
(Only slightly surprisingly, iTunes doesn't use the RVA2 ID3 tag used by normalize, but instead uses a COMM/iTunNORM tag.)
I think that a solution involving manually pulling the audio out of the movie files, normalizing it as a WAV, and re-inserting it into the movie is probably doomed to synchronization errors. So let's not.
all kinds of movie hate.
- Repo Man sequel. I read Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday and it was highly mediocre and forgettable.
- They Live remake. Dear idiot reviewer: the "bubblegum" line did not take place anywhere near the too-long fight scene.
- Chick from Twilight to play Joan Jett.
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. I tried to watch some of these the other day when some channel was running a marathon, and wow, the originals are so utterly unwatchable it makes me think that maybe the Marky Mark remake wasn't so bad in comparison. I wasn't able to tolerate 5 minutes of any of them.
Also: Dear anyone who thinks that "REBOOT" is the cool new synonym for "REMAKE" -- free cock punches for you.
