The next step in mixing is making sure that the loudness of your video when it exports is how you want it. And just to give you a use case scenario, let's say you are doing version after version of edits, and you're putting them out for approval every week, or every night. And throughout each time you're changing music, and there are differences. You want to make sure that your mp4 or your movie that you export is the same loudness overall as your other ones. And this will kind of create a uniformity and expectation of your work from others. And they'll appreciate it.

No one likes cranking up the volume to hear a video and then the next one plays and it's super loud and it hurts your ears. That will turn them off to your work. Even if you're working Good. So loudness normalisation or standardization is a good practice. And I had a lecture about the loudness radar and this is a way to do it manually. Special loudness radar, you could go in and learn this and say okay I want to target of that loudness and I don't want it to peak.

If it goes, if it goes above negative point five, that one that tell me it's peaking, then you can play it. Have you ever heard that if you work for 10,000 hours at a specific skill, then you become a master of it. My name is Jason Randell I am here to give you. So if I'd let this go all the way I would tell me my average is negative 15 loudness, and since I want, then I would adjust this to my target if I wanted negative 17 drop this by negative two, or sorry, a drop this by two. But that is a manual way to do it and premiers got built in stuff so we don't even need to do this anymore. However, it is good to know the theory behind it manually because that can help you mix.

So let's say we are ready to export our video, we'd like the mix, we've got any effects on it, we want to done the fine tuning. First we have to go in and set our out point. If you want the last frame of the video to actually have video, you do it one frame before. So now you hit Apple M or Ctrl M for the export window. And I'm going to do the ht six four. I'm not really concerned about these video settings right now.

I couldn't be afraid another another course audio and the default audio is going to be good. But if you go over to these effects tab and scroll down, premier has built in loudness normalisation. So you check this box. And now you have some controls. These are different standards based on different regions of the world. So on this one, you can't change the target loudness, you only change some other stuff.

So what I usually do is I drop it down to this one, where it lets me change the target loudness. And I like doing a target loudness of negative 16. That's about the loudness of music on iTunes and Spotify. And it's just overall a pretty good number. Not too loud where you scare people into not too soft where you have to crank up the speakers. Leave this stuff the same.

If you want If you haven't put in a limiter, like we already put in a limiter on our multiband compression, so this has no use for us. But if you don't have a limiter on your mix, you can use this to make sure it doesn't go above zero. But I recommend doing the limiting within premiere not on this effects panel. So here's the loudness normalisation. That means when this gets exported, it'll be this loudness. And what you can do is you can save this once we start making these changes, the preset becomes custom because you're, it's a new one, you can save the preset and next time when you go to export, you just pull up the preset that has your loudness normalisation on it.

And that way, you're always getting the same loudness. And you just hit export, and it would adjust the overall loudness of your mix not momentary not up and down like this. But overall if it's Overall averaged out to be negative 15 like we saw on our radar, it'll take it down by one decimal to get to our target, which is negative 60.