How Loud Should Your YouTube Videos Be? | Loudness Normalizing for YouTube

Why should you loudness normalize your audio? There’s a couple reasons. The first reason, is it will make your video loud enough for people to hear clearly, but not too loud. Another reason to loudness normalize, is it brings consistency to your videos. Loudness normalizing all your videos to the same level, ensures the overall loudness is very similar across your channel. In this video, we take a look at how to set the overall volume level for your videos to -16 LUFS, the target level for uploading to KZbin.
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[@mrwintoe]

This is THE MOST HELPFUL video I've ever seen on setting audio levels in Final Cut Pro! You're a genius!

[@StupidRaisins]

Thanks for the advice, Serge! I wish more creators paid more attention to their audio. It can get really annoying sometimes when the video gets really loud after being very quiet.

[@elams1894]

Thanks Serg! The exact video I was hoping for! Keep them coming, great channel!

[@josecarlosr6317]

Thank you Serge! I was so discouraged to edit my videos just because of the audio editing which always gave me a headache. This tutorial is awesome!!

[@jeffdowns5996]

Of all the people who I have watched on using FCP you are the best. Keep up the great work! This tutorial on loudness was exactly what I needed for my project.

[@OnlyThomasHayes]

This made the sound of my video sound even more balanced and professional. Thank you for uploading this! I subscribed.

[@SammyandTommy]

Another great tutorial! 🧙🏻‍♂️Appreciate it Serge! Will be implementing this in upcoming videos.

[@MANaboutTOOLS]

Short and sweet! Thanks Serge!

[@murderhill1947]

I've been waiting for this topic, even thought about requesting it from you. Now to try it out. Thanks.

[@BagsPackedFamily]

Thanks, Serge. That’s definitely next level audio. I’ll have to give it a try in my next video. I like the idea of having a consistent sound across videos.

[@Serge1913]

It does make a difference!

[@onemoretimetexas]

Thank you Serge. As always, concise and understandable and very helpful.

[@robstravelsadventures]

Great video. You explained this so well and now I can adjust my audio correctly (instead of increasing the DB). I tested with your instructions on a few clips and it is night and day the audio. Thank you so much!

[@MyClutteredGarage]

This is great, Serge. I'm totally confused but I'll definitely save this video and follow it step by step for my next upload! Thank you. -Ed

[@Petesmotoadventure]

I keep learning more and more from you. As a motorcycle content creator audio is a constant source of headaches. With all the extra noise components it can be a real bugger to keep consistent. Thanks.

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

This was a great video. Well explained throughout...thank you!

[@onekeiway]

Finally - short and sweet, and effective for FCPX! Thanks Serge.

[@Paul_Uhl_]

This is the best explanation of this I've found. Thank you!

[@pathegartyfilmssongs9487]

Thank You Serge, very clear and easy to understand.

[@NeuroSoup]

Thank you, this video was very helpful!!

[@johntbd]

Thanks Serge, this one is very helpful.

[@storyisgreater]

Love learning new things. Thank you!

[@JoeCastellon]

Brilliant video! I had just watched Curtis's videos and was wondering how to apply this in FCP. Thanks Serge!!

[@mtamech535]

Serge...you did it again. Love this dude.

[@zoecheng2756]

I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks Serge 👍🏻

[@jerclarkedotorg]

Great video! You blew my mind several times!

[@IRLVaporwave]

great tips, will remember to reference this stuff when I upgrade my stuff some day!

[@dirtydirtmcgogurt]

Thanks for this video! Been having issues with this for awhile now.

[@MrRobertC]

Great video. Important subject matter not known by most, presented in a short concise manner. One of the best instruction videos and I rate 5 stars. I am grateful to Serge

[@kaneborchert9140]

Thanks brother, very well explained

[@chipcurry]

Very good work. I had never heard of LUFS. Been in the business for quite a few years. Thank you

[@SoNowWhat]

Wow! Great job! I didn’t know anything about this topic !

[@hollysoapmaking]

Thank you! This was so helpful!

[@Serge1913]

Happy to help Holly!

[@babawawayoyo]

This is amazing and SO helpful!!

[@enableliving]

Great video - thank you very much

[@androstern]

You helped me out with two of your videos already so here goes my subscribe good fella!

[@BarryMaskell]

Excellent - most simplistic explanation of an over complicated topic

[@DansplainingVideo]

Super helpful information, thanks!

[@Jazzbeau]

Another excellent and very helpful vid!

[@ProfSimonHolland]

very useful...thanks Serge. ... just subscribed

[@GuillermoandSarah]

Thanks for your videos!

[@thatonemindfulguy3724]

Nice one serge !

[@Ducanralf]

Cool Serge, you always read my mind.

[@Serge1913]

Glad to help!

[@webbbeo]

BIG THANK YOU!

[@DavidListenMentalHealth]

Awesome. Thank you!

[@mmlips]

Awesome Serge, thanks a ton!

[@Serge1913]

Glad you liked it!

[@WheresMyPencilUK]

This is great going to try it thanks. 👍🏼

[@JoseOchoa-dw9vk]

Thanks for a clear explanation

[@SomnathNagawade]

Great learning Serge as always. Can you make episode on how to record, clean and create VoiceOver in FCP please ?

[@Yustiniya1]

Very useful. Thank you!

[@ACelebrationofLIFEMendoza]

Thanks Serge

[@mohammadalanazi4977]

Wish you all the best man.

[@beardawgstudios]

This video was soooooo helpful! I wish I had started doing this earlier. I just did it to my most recent edit and my gosh does it sound better!!!!

[@shandybrandy5407]

Thank you Serge!

[@marcofusco3847]

Good job keep going on!!

[@philvfilms]

A massive help thank you so much

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Thanks for making this video. This will help me sort my voiceovers to location recordings. 🔊📢😎😎

[@Serge1913]

Happy to help!

[@khamphausa5537]

Thank you so much for all your video

[@AldenAranjo]

Nicely explained...

[@hoodaffairstv]

Great video 👌🏽

[@nugefour1095]

great info!

[@DeviDalyYoga]

Excellent tutorial, Serge - thank you! A question - to equalize the volume in a 5-minute song clip, would you choose compressor or limiter?

[@hmi30noche]

It’s great thank you

[@shakesnbake]

Thank you

[@llMick]

You rock brother! Big hug

[@DroneKingsInDarwin]

I’m going to need to watch this a few times but looks simple.

[@tv-qx8dr]

thanks bro :)

[@Darrenmcinnes70]

Good stuff!

[@fumiyakinoshita8918]

thank you. you saved my life

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

In another video of yours you set some of these levels, differently. With different values. I've already set the levels following the other video and now I should probably have to change them to follow this. There are so many changes and things that you can do that it really is overwhelming. You do one thing and then discover you should do it differently after having applied the change to all video. :)

[@AJCoReTV]

Check which is his “newer” video on topic & follow that advice.

[@MK-uo7hk]

Thanks A lot!

[@Serge1913]

Happy to help!

[@garudasomanna]

Good morning Serge. I am into making Christian song videos and am deeply frustrated in this matter: the audio of KZbin videos we create sounds so well on all devices except one: mobile phone speakers where the volume is reduced! I will use your suggested method and hope things will be sorted out! One doubt exists in my mind: does the browser you use affect the audio quality of the uploaded videos? Would using Google Chrome instead of Safari help matters? Actually I wish you or someone else would bring out educative videos upon this matter at a greater depth. Anyway, thanks for this video. I have never considered FCPX as the place I could normalise levels of my audios. Have a nice day Serge. You are one on your own: excellent and crisp presentation.

[@PeterKaitlyn]

I generally make any dialogue or talking to around -6 db and have background music or sounds float around -12 db. I sometime double the dialogue tracks to make the sound of the voices thicker. I don't know why this does what it does, but there is a definite difference... presence... to speech tracks where I do this.

[@EricB03]

love this video and just got into FCP and your videos are helping. I subbed and will be watching more. One question though when you are playing back to get the levels can you scrub or do you have to let it play though at normal speed? I am playing normal but wanted to check. thanks.

[@vaexperience]

Brilliant one. Can you make a video on composing the background audio and voice-over audio so it's just right? I struggle to make the background audio just loud enough, perhaps you have a go to model for approaching this?

[@Serge1913]

Honestly, I just do it by listening to what sounds right

[@TheCuriousYogi]

This is brilliant - thank you! If i have a 30min video and I'm running the audio inspector, is there a way to FF this vs wait for the whole audio duration as it inspects :) TY!

[@kevinhill.8]

I'm new to FCPX, so this may be a real noob question, but how do you access the level meter in the lower right at 2:22? I subscribed and turned the bell on, btw! :)

[@AJCoReTV]

Thank you… this was easier in davinci, but I am on FCP now.. 🎉

[@johnnydee7480]

My saved compressor setting in Final Cut is called Serge.

[@mariahakinbi]

Hey Serge! How do you level out all of the audio while keeping the outro music up? (I'd like to increase the background music as the video fades out.) Should I leave the outro music out of all the leveling modifications? Thank you!

[@pejeickx9562]

Great video! I have tried with a couple of videos. On one video however I have -16 LUFS but true peaks only on -3.0 dB. Is this ok or should I upper the output level to reach -1.7 dB ?

[@ArseniiSavitckii]

if I could like this video more then one time!!!

[@eduardo_corrochio]

There's a KZbin playlist that I compiled for myself from other peoples' existing YT videos, and it is a mix of songs and movie clips. When played, the volume changes from clip to clip; some tunes are soft while a few others play quite loudly; also, the dialogue/movie clips' audio runs the gamut from loud to very quiet. I was wondering if there is a way somehow to change the volume so that most of the videos don't have dramatic differences in sound, and if this can be done in KZbin itself (without using outside apps or software). Thank you.

[@DenisBTV]

Thanks! Nice technical details about the loudness. Still, your intro is a bit louder than the voice: I move the volume up and down in your videos before and after the intro.

[@PetrSalz]

Great stuff! I did not know this was possible. Would there be a way to do this maybe less accurately, with playing the whole project? That seems quite time consuming.

[@Serge1913]

I think the Pro version of Youlean Loudness meter can analyze your audio without playing the whole thing, but not 100 percent sure how well it works

[@petrsalz9990]

@@Serge1913 Interesting, I will take a look! Thanks!

[@aloykitty]

Thanks! Meow! :D

[@fanfan9768]

What is the number in an audio meter? Volume?

[@mdg2seasia]

Is there a way to get these values without having to play through. This get time consuming, when you have to readjust several times, and are dealing with longer videos. .

[@jeremyfreetoroam]

Oh great, now I have another huge task to do before publishing my videos!!!😅

[@Serge1913]

Sorry

[@TesLatino]

No matter how many videos I watch about this topic, I still can't for the life of me understand why all the content in KZbin sounds significantly louder than broadcast TV. I watch KZbin mostly in my living room's TV connected to an ONKYO home theater. If I leave my sound system at the same volume as when I watch TV, but switch over to KZbin on the Smart TV, I have to bring the volume down on my home theater from about -12 dB to around -30 dB or my neighbors will hear my TV from their living room.

[@dappercreator7410]

Why KZbin is the best

[@PetrSalz]

Hi Serge, my regular built-in green meters in FCPX show peak values that are about 12 dB higher than the values I see on the Multimeter set at True Peak. In your video the meters seem pretty much the same. Any idea what could be causing the difference? As far as I can see I am using the same settings of the multimeter as you are.

[@PetrSalz]

Solved this! It turns out that if you increase the volume of the compound clip in the audio track, that increase is not reflected in the multimeter. When I reduce the volume change to 0 dB in the track or in the inspector, the two meters are equal. So your method with the limiter is really the way to go ;)

[@AndrewLazarevBlog]

Compressor + Limeter + Adaptive limiter

[@itsPhillipStaples]

Serge please answer this question. After the playback for the mutimeter is done, everything goes back to 0 and i cannot capture the numbers. how to stop this?

[@sasculptorakkadian6862]

Same here….

[@kayblack8822]

@@sasculptorakkadian6862any luck finding the solution to this ?

[@sdtimeless]

100 likes 👍🏼

[@sasculptorakkadian6862]

I’m using the multimeter just like you said, but at the end of my 40 minute video everything just drops down to -70…it doesn’t show me the overall levels at all…what am I doing wrong!?!?

[@VincentBova]

I'm having the same issue.

[@kayblack8822]

Any luck finding the solution to this ?

[@VincentBova]

@@kayblack8822 There is definitely a bug with the plug-in. I'm not sure if the FCP update fixed it, but I ended up buying Youlean Loudness Meter Pro, which is EXCELLENT. Well worth $37. Good luck!

[@truongnguyen7552]

goal: -16 LUFS true peak: -1.5 decibels

[@thickymcghee7681]

Serge M. or Colin Farrell wearing a mask?

[@SammyC27]

so confused. Why does this guy say audio should be set at between 0-6DB then?! you say 12-20 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmK9ZoGpnqZkn68

[@sasculptorakkadian6862]

Ugh, this just doesn’t work.

[@AJCoReTV]

Make sure the limiter / compressor is above the meter in the inspector window!

[@dekuanstudios8457]

That was definitely some useful information. Thank you