But your ears and eyes can play tricks on you. Just like your eyes are the authority for color grading, your ears are the authority for a good mix. Click here to learn more about how to normalize one or more clips in Premiere Pro. It makes sense to use Audio Gain for tweaking Auto-Matched clips because that's where you can see the Auto-Match results. Note how the actual gain will update to reflect the entered "Adjust Gain by" value. ![]() Paul uses “Adjust Gain by” to raise or lower his clip audio gain levels. ![]() First, notice how Auto-Match has changed the "Set Gain to" number. Select the clip and use the keyboard shortcut (G) to open the Audio Gain window. “The Auto-Match button is great and gets you most of the way, but will also get some things wrong, so you can't just click it and assume your dialogue all sounds the same.” As stated earlier, Paul manually fixes Auto-Match inconsistencies by adjusting the Audio Gain. ![]() It’s important to realize that the Auto-Match button is a helpful tool, but it’s not foolproof. I suspect that with the inclusion of Auto-Match in this version of Premiere Pro (CC 2017.1), the ability to set loudness using LUFS, LKFS or LU must be around the corner, because dealing in dBFS is becoming less and less useful or relevant.” Audio Gain Paul says, “It would be great if we could set those levels ourselves, because is really only useful to people in broadcast - you'd want to set it much higher for the web. So the question is, can you set the target loudness for the Auto-Match button? Unfortunately, not at the time of this writing. ![]() "If I was doing this for web, I’d bump up the overall loudness with Gain > Adjust Gain By." (See Audio Gain below.) As someone who frequently edits video for the web, I usually aim for -6dBs with peaks no higher than -3dBs. In which case, -16 LUFS is a suitable de facto target loudness for the web. Need another reference? Visit Premiere Pro CC: Loudness Radar and Average Audio Levels by Larry Jordan. But what if you are publishing video to the web? Usually video for the web is mixed much louder. These values are compliant with most broadcast specifications. Below is the Auto-Match target loudness for each Essential Sound audio type:
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