How to Fix Movies that Are Really Quiet, then REALLY LOUD

[MarcsVlogVids]

I've been noticing this more often.
The dialog is whisper quiet, while music and gun fire is concert level loud.

[YoureWrongImRightGetOverIt]

This is the most helpful video on the internet. This has been driving me nuts forever, always had to turn the volume up to hear dialog and then turn it down every darn time there was any sort of sound effect. Used to hurt my ears, finally able to watch a movie and actually enjoy it without having to toggle the volume constantly. Thank you!!!

[notthere]

It's pathetic that people have to do this sort of thing instead of movies being mixed in a more reasonable manner. Sure, action that would be louder in real life should be a bit louder in the movie as well but come on!

[aalever]

this has bugged me for soooo long. thanks loads!

[DarkNights-Vibe]

They don’t realize how annoying it is to watch a movie when you have to put the volume up and down the whole time. Smh

[notthere]

For some visual feedback while tweaking the settings, I would recommend installing the "Orban Loudness Meter" and looking at the "ITU BS.1770 Momentary" meter (and maybe the one directly below). Don't forget to hit the "ON" switch at the bottom before. ;)
Because of this, I realized how threshold works and that an even lower threshold was better for what I wanted. (-30 dB)
And attack/release is especially important with moments like in the Matrix. I think that the attack should be really short but release very long so that while the music in the club is playing, the compressor doesn't keep increasing/decreasing the volume.

[AfroCubanlife]

Thanks! This is actually why Ive never finished watching The Matrix.

[danthemango]

Matrix Reloaded was the biggest volume rollercoaster I've ever seen

[IrishLocke]

WOW, 9 Years later, You're still awesome!

[MigGamingLive]

I don’t only use VLC Player. This affects me in many movies when I use the home theatre, I find changing my home theatre’s volume settings fixes it a bit, but nowhere near perfect. Thank you for this.

Can you make a video (if you know) how to work with YouTube’s audio in videos? Some of them whisper while some of them are at the point of maxing out the speaker. It’s so frustrating and a pet peeve of mine.

[Kern]

Mostly when the audio track is 5.1 ! if you go with stereo then the sound is ok. Most people have the stereo on their pcs but in the video file, you can see multiple audio tracks.

[NutsuruSama]

I'm going to watch the matrix after this video lol

[rb]

I don't understand why this can't be done on the fly? Couldn't we extract all the sound from the entire video file, analyze the patterns, and create the perfect settings for those 7 sound levels? Otherwise, this seems like a lot of research and work just for sound perfection.

[Shakicast]

They spend millions or even sometimes billions on these movies why can't they get the audio right ?

[ifstatementifstatement]

Can someone who knows about how movie audio is edited explain to me why all movies have this problem now? I haven't found an explanation online that could explain to me why they decide to do this. Do they consider this to be more realistic? Because if so it really sucks for everyone. I can enable Loudness Equalization in Windows to fix this for all movies but I also play video games and Loudness Equalization really messes up the game audio, which is almost always well balanced for all games, unlike movies.

[dany]

holy shit...ive seen so many movies being too lazy or forgetting or idk .. to search for an answer to this problem...now i got it...thx dude

[VanEthics]

Under a posting on Reddit titled "Volume levels are very inconsistent when watching a film." from a year ago it's suggested to "Go to AC3Filter options > mixer tab and set the voice option slider to 0" if you're having this problem in MPC. And a quick Google search brought up another more detailed suggestion if that doesn't work just search this "How to: Increase or normalize volume in Media Player Classic". Not sure if any of that will work for you because I don't use MPC, but hope it helps.

[hvacdr]

i simply can not watch movies on my computer without this. your video is the only video that i could find that properly explains the fix to this issue. i know there was another years ago not sure where. what i will say however is that if you have an older computer that by using the compression it does put some added strain on your cpu for it to perform this. On my old 2005 computer while i was watching movie over my lan the compression would cause my old computer to bog down if i used to much of the compression lol. i dont understand all the technical reasoning behind it. anyway thats a very outdated computer. thanks so much. i can finally watch a movie without waking the whole world up.

[guyfawkes]

Thank you so much, finally my mother will shut up

[zinodz]

Do you know the fix of this in cyberflix or amazon fire stick settings