In this 5-minute free video tutorial, Paul Maunder gives an overview of NUGEN’s VisLM loudness meter plugin. This tutorial is aimed at new users or anyone considering transitioning from another loudness meter to VisLM.
Being able to accurately measure loudness is a critical part of the post-production mixing process, whether you’re working on something for TV, radio, streaming platforms or even a podcast.
NUGEN VisLM includes presets for a wide variety of international loudness standards including EBU R128, ATSC A/85, OP59, and Netflix, among others. In addition to this, VisLM can be fully configured and tailored to suit any custom specs.
With up to 24 hours of loudness history linked to the timecode in your DAW and comprehensive True Peak metering, VisLM is well suited to complex post-production mixes where compliance with a defined loudness requirement is critical.
VisLM also includes up to 7.1.2 surround support and, as you will see in the video, provides a comprehensive and highly configurable set of loudness metering tools.
Paul is a certificated Pro Tools expert in post-production sound, and outside of the studio, he also works on location heading up film shoots.
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In this 5-minute free video tutorial, Paul Maunder gives an overview of NUGEN’s VisLM loudness meter plugin. This tutorial is aimed at new users or anyone considering transitioning from another loudness meter to VisLM.
As a bit of fun on the team we’ve challenged one another to this; you get to keep all the plugins supplied with you DAW but then you only get to keep one more plugin. Mike Thornton makes his choice.
At IBC 2018 in Amsterdam, Nugen Audio will be previewing a significant update to its Loudness Toolkit on stand 8.D56. Loudness Toolkit 2.8 will provide a new loudness parameter, Dialogue LRA as well as new flexibility to simultaneously monitor multiple integrated measurements to support the new Netflix delivery specs.
Nugen Audio has released the latest version of their loudness metering software VisLM. V2.8.3 brings 2 new features, one minor - a change to the Netflix stereo preset and one major - the introduction of Flags, which help to visualise Alerts and navigate through them. An added bonus is that whilst we were preparing the video tutorial showing the new features, we discovered an undocumented feature in VisLM from Nugen Audio that is really clever and will save you time and money and so we had to include that in the video tutorial as well!
It seemed I started getting emails from people almost as soon as the virtual ink was dry on the latest delivery spec to come from Netflix. People were concerned about the language and the impression that Netflix had turned the clock back 10 years by using Dolby’s Dialog Intelligence software. In this article, we investigate to see if Netflix’s new delivery spec is a retrograde move, a pragmatic response to the changing climate, or a stroke of genius.
Dolby is quietly discontinuing their Media Meter 2 loudness measurement software on August 23rd, 2018. Our friends at Nugen Audio have responded to this with what we think is a very generous offer.
Nugen Audio continue to develop and improve their range of products and have announced a number of developments that they are planning to show off at IBC at the beginning of September.
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We are seeing loudness normalisation in more workflows, not just broadcast audio but music streaming services, too. There is a wide range of Loudness meters out there now, and we thought it would be helpful to provide a round-up of the different options that are now available. We know it is not completely exhaustive, but it covers the main players in the loudness meter plug-in sector.
As a follow-up on Mike’s Understanding Loudness, which is now free, in this article, we are going to cover loudness for music streaming services, including loudness normalisation, album normalisation and how to prepare music tracks for music streaming services, with three free tutorials.
In part four of a free six-part tutorial series, Mike Thornton shares some tips and tricks for mixing to the loudness standards, explains the importance of ‘loudness planning’ before ending with some specific tips and tricks for mixing short form content like adverts and promos. Mike goes on to look at the changes needed to mix content for Netflix.
In part three of a free tutorial series, Mike Thornton covers how to calibrate your monitors. We look at how monitoring should be configured and provide an explanation of bass management and what your sub should be doing before moving on to a practical demonstration of how to calibrate your monitoring with a sound pressure meter.
There is a growing need to be able to reversion mixed content to deliver it on a variety of different platforms, often with different delivery specifications. In this article, loudness guru Mike Thornton takes you through the issues, challenges and a range of solutions.
In part two of a free four-part tutorial series, loudness expert Mike Thornton covers the development of one loudness standard. We explore how we arrived at a loudness measurement algorithm that works just like our ears and the various criteria we use to define and guide us when working to the new loudness delivery specifications.
Not sure what all this loudness stuff is about and how it affects you? Loudness expert Mike Thornton answers all these questions and many more in this six-part series, now available for free. In this first part, we clarify what we mean by loudness.
YouTuber Tom Scott has made the most accessible explanation of both the need for, and the method behind loudness workflows we’ve seen. If you feel you need to understand the problem a little better, or you need to explain it to someone less interested than you in loudness-related matters, this video might be what you’re after.
In this article, Dr Neil Hillman discusses new, shocking research that shows that 80% of some viewers rely on subtitles to 'hear' their television programmes and not because they are old or hearing impaired, quite the opposite. He also asks whether it has become the new fashion in television production to be completely ignorant of how sound works.