How to set your Audio Levels for YouTube | Premiere Pro CC Loudness Radar

In this video I will show you how to set your Audio levels to the correct specification to comply with KZbin's guidelines.
KZbin specify that you set your audio to no louder than 0DB at -14 LUFS.
So really you want to be setting your audio at anywhere from -6db to 0 and you need to be measuring this against a loudness level meter that can measure audio in the LUFS standard.
To do this you are going to need to use some video editing software with a loudness meter.
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to use the Loudness Level Meter in Adobe Premiere Pro CC to measure your audio and then adjust it to the right level.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Measuring Audio In LUFS
2:15 Auditing your Videos Using Stats for Nerds
4:14 Accessing the Audio Tab
4:13 Adding a Hard Limiter Effect
5:11 Adding the LUFS Meter
8:00 Exporting you Video
8:50 Applying Loudness Normalisation to the whole video
#youtube #videoediting #adobe #premiere
Note:
Some people have asked about the loudness Meter Vs the Loudness Radar. Especially since the M1 version of Premiere Pro only has the Loudness Meter as an option. You can still use the Loudness Meter to make sure you hit the correct target.
Find out more about the Loudness meter in my complete guide to mastering audio using Premiere Video: • Audio Mastering with P...
While similar to the Loudness Radar, the Loudness Meter provides a different way for us to look at our audio.
While the Loudness Radar displays aggregate audio levels over time, the new Loudness Meter displays these values on a instant-by-instant basis.
Peak levels show us the instant by instant loudest portions of our audio, while average levels look at audio levels over time.
So if you are using the loudness meter, choose the KZbin Preset for example for -14 LUFS and keep an eye on the Integrated level meter. You need to play it back over the entire project or a good long portion and wait for it to adjust until you get the average reading.
Short-term and Momentary monitor short duration average levels.
Integrated is the level we are concerned with. This displays the on-going average levels for our program, and most closely matches the levels displayed by the Loudness Radar.

[@MusicEnthuZone]

Thank you. LUF is in the air.

[@danwilde275]

Thanks mate! Great video, clear and to the point. Was just trying to get my head around LUFS vs LKFS and how to measure them for a rejected TVC and this was exactly what I needed🏆🔈👌

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

You are most welcome! Glad to know that it helped out! All the best with the TVC. 👍👊

[@user-gq7fe6xz9k]

Thanks! This video is informative and very useful！！！

[@JJD3]

Very, very helpful, paced, well detailed. Just right

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Thanks so much. Greatly appreciated.

[@infideluxe]

This was SO sensationally helpful. Thank you hugely!

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

You're so welcome!

[@alisonjonespharmacist]

Thanks for this great video. You did a great job explaining how KZbin works and why it is important to send the video with the best levels.

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

You are very welcome. Glad you found the video helpful!

[@LifeOfaMatt]

Brilliant!!! Thank you for putting this video together. I definitely will be doing this on my next video.

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Great to hear that! Thanks for checking out the video!

[@lilroopie]

Thank you for this, this video was exactly what I was looking for and what I needed, you are a life saver, keep doing what you're doing man 🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Awesome to hear that it was helpful! Thanks for watching and for your kind words. All the best!

[@lilroopie]

Wait hold up, so I tried to do it and the LUF doesn't even reach-14 it doesn't even go past-10,help???

[@Anne88420]

well perhaps you can help me out

[@hablamosdelibros]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your Know-how!

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

You are most welcome Jose. Thanks for checking out the video!

[@KarlRock]

Thanks mate.

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

You are very welcome!

[@mikekillagreen9432]

Thank you Ace!

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Any time!

[@jeremydenief]

came here for the vid but dig the monologue bro. good synth

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

💯 Bro. Can't beat the Analogue sound. 👌

[@jeremydenief]

KZbin let me know you replied and I realized autocorrect made it monologue. being a synth player too I have to: ***Minilogue*** lol

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

@@jeremydenief You know your synths bro. Minilogue and Monologue look almost the same. But you are 100 percent right that it is indeed the minilogue.

[@trainersmachine4866]

Thanks, very clear. And is that a legendary Roland 303 synth in the background?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Great. Glad you found the video helpful! Yes you got it. Such a great bass synth. So glad to have one!

[@AJMac1]

Thanks for this video, but my only question is how do these adjustments apply to SFX? Is it recommended to adjust each SFX using these adjustments? And lastly, if speeding up the video clip while keeping the pitch, what would you recommend then?

[@Charlotte-Metro-Area-gm4zt]

Great video! If you have multiple tracks, should you apply the hard limiter to each track? Or just to the first track?

[@Charlotte-Metro-Area-gm4zt]

In your example there only seems to be one audio track

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

If you have multiple tracks I would suggest limiting track by track, for example the vocal track would benefit from a hard limit and a background music track would be best left as is so that it is not overwhelming.

[@buckkahlerinstructorvideop2222]

Hi John, I love the Loudness Radar, but Adobe does not include it with the M1 Macs (licensing issue with 3rd party.) Could you show the same operation using the Loudness Meter?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Interesting didn’t realise that. Will look into it as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for letting me know

[@Filtersloth]

Yeah I thought I was going blind, but it’s just not included. Is the loudness meter pretty much the same thing?

[@GhostShipMusic]

@@Touchtechnologyreview Hi. Did you find an alternative to Loudness Radar since Loudness Radar is missing on M1 macs? Thanks so much! Just subscribed. This is GREAT content.

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

@@Filtersloth While similar to the Loudness Radar, the Loudness Meter provides a different way for us to look at our audio. While the Loudness Radar displays aggregate audio levels over time, the new Loudness Meter displays these values on a instant-by-instant basis. Peak levels show us the instant by instant loudest portions of our audio, while average levels look at audio levels over time. So if you are using the loudness meter, choose the KZbin Preset for example for -14 LUFS and keep an eye on the Integrated level meter. You need to play it back over the entire project or a good long portion and wait for it to adjust until you get the average reading. Short-term and Momentary monitor short duration average levels. Integrated is the level we are concerned with. This displays the on-going average levels for our program, and most closely matches the levels displayed by the Loudness Radar.

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

@@GhostShipMusic Hey there, yes you can use the Loudness Meter on the M1 mac. While similar to the Loudness Radar, the Loudness Meter provides a different way for us to look at our audio. While the Loudness Radar displays aggregate audio levels over time, the new Loudness Meter displays these values on a instant-by-instant basis. Peak levels show us the instant by instant loudest portions of our audio, while average levels look at audio levels over time. So if you are using the loudness meter, choose the KZbin Preset for example for -14 LUFS and keep an eye on the Integrated level meter. You need to play it back over the entire project or a good long portion and wait for it to adjust until you get the average reading. Short-term and Momentary monitor short duration average levels. Integrated is the level we are concerned with. This displays the on-going average levels for our program, and most closely matches the levels displayed by the Loudness Radar.

Thank you, great Video. But: the Loudness radar is not available on my new mac. It just dissapeared :) There is a loundness measure, but I would like to have the radar. Any idea?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Oh yes on the new M1/M2 macs for some reason Adobe did not include the loudness Radar. However they did include the loudness meter. I have a tutorial on that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnWqiKKOprecmaM

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnWqiKKOprecmaM

[@matthias8638]

If i want to add music in the audio backround on wich LUFS level should it be then? Is there a golden rule like this or is it like: do it how you like ?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

When it comes to music in the background you want to monitor that by ear and listen to it in the mix as each track will vary. Make sure that the music does not over power the vocal. Something like -12 - -24DB is quite common for music when laid down as a backing track. Then Apply the loudness meter to the audio output track and it will take a reading of all the tracks vocal and music and make sure it is on target.

[@matthias8638]

@@Touchtechnologyreview Thank you very much :) !

[@PierceJordan]

Do you have a tutorial for how to do this in final cut pro?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

Haven't done it on Final Cut Myself but I understand Final Cut Pro does include Logic Pro’s multimeter audio filter which you should be able to use in the same way.

[@PierceJordan]

@@Touchtechnologyreview Thank you!

[@waryth4475]

Too much effort to get the perfect audio levels for our video. We have to use Loudness Radar and track all the video to be near -14 LUFS. It's fine for a 3-5 minute video but 15+ minute video? We can just use the export button or the KZbin auto audio normalizer. I only want to have my audio loud enough when I wanted to. I don't understand how the normalizer work there's something called peak noramlization yada yada or the other one where's average normalization. If I don't have low audio in my video then there's really nothing to worry about no or if I have a higher audio it'll affect the rest of my audio even the low volume audio too getting the volume nerfed overall?

[@nathitappan]

I don't have the loudness radar option. Just the meter... is that normal?

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

I would expect to see the loudness radar in all versions of Premiere but perhaps its not all all previous versions. If you have the CC cloud try updating the software to find it.

[@lachlanoliwa7121]

I am also having this issue, even though I've used the radar previously

[@ae-hi4882]

Ok well I do have one question (I haven’t watched the entire video and I just wanna get this problem over with) I’ve been playing my KZbin on my tv with the volume of 15. For about awhile now, it’s only been recently happening to me that I notice the volume automatically goes down like if I turned down the volume to 13 or 12 like (I did not upload the video I am just a viewer wanting to listen to the music) So by any chance how can I have the volume stay normal without having to raise the volume bar from 15 too 18 to get the orginal result?

[@notprosperBEATS]

7:56

[@ivanmadethis]

So your titles says "Loudness Meter" but you're using the "Loudness Radar". I don't know what the difference is but the radar seems a lot more confusing than the meter... lol

[@Touchtechnologyreview]

The Loudness Radar displays aggregate audio levels over time, the new Loudness Meter displays these values on a instant-by-instant basis so really the difference is that the meter is kind of more instant and you can see the peaks and changes as you play back where as the Radar is going to be delayed as it gathers the info and shows the level over a certain interval. You could use the Meter if you prefer. Main thing is that on average you want to be at around the -3db or -1db mark for. maximum loudness and avoid peaking.

[@lomps]

whew...overly complex, its shocking that it's just not a simple adjustment on the KZbin video editor....