Hi Phil, Pro Tools doesn't include those meters by default. Most people are using plug-ins that specialize in keeping track of specific volume units. Those plug-ins, unfortunately, are not yet accessible. You should just stick to Windows for that. Slau
On May 7, 2016, at 6:00 AM, Phil Muir <i...@accessibilitytraining.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all! Do we have access to RMS and LUFS meters in Pro Tools? This would > be another deal breaker for me as for me at least, I don’t have all of the > tools that I require on the Mac side such as an accessible metering system > that I can use to check all meters, peak, RMS LUFS or dynamic range. My view > is that you can’t work independently as a mastering engineer without all of > that feedback from meters. My personal goal is to master albums with a crest > factor no higher than 8LUFS or, DR8 and if possible lower than that in order > to preserve dynamics. RMS is kind of the same as LUFS however, what it won’t > tell you is the over all integrated loudness of a track that you are > mastering E.G. the crest factor. Great mastering engineers such as Ian > Shepherd have done videos explaining the new LUFS system. You will find the > video on this page: > > http://www.productionadvice.co.uk/lufs-dbfs-rms/ > > This is going to become more of an issue as there are new LUFS standards for > broadcast in the European Union and US and if you don’t adhere to the new > standards, your masters will be rejected as non compliant. I have taken a > look at the TT Dynamic Range meter and the stand-alone app on the Mac and > unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be accessible. I managed to make it > accessible on the Windows platform using the freely available HotSpotClicker > Jaws scripts. You can read about the accessibility here: > > http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/tt_dynamic_range_meter.html > > In theory LUFS and RMS could be made accessible as they are already part of > Pro Tools. We would just need to be able to somehow read them. I guess they > could implement them in a similar way as Peak although RMS and LUFS/DR meters > are dynamic so that could be a bit of a challenge. It certainly is on the > Windows side. You have to set Jaws to “Say nun” then, you can use keystrokes > to read the TT Dynamic Range meter. > > The TT Dynamic Range meter also has a stand-alone app. The cool thing about > that is that you can click on a folder and when you doo, all of the > information in the folder is written out to a text file. I have pasted an > example below of what an album looks like but taken out the real track names. > Still, this will give you an idea of what I am talking about. Note: you > will see from the following example that we have an album with some tracks > that have a higher crest factor of DR8 and the overall loudness comes out at > minus 10. You will also see that the peak is around minus 1.2 DB. That’s to > allow for compression into other formats such as MP3/MP4 without getting any > clipping added to the compressed files. As you can see the below example is > well within my goal. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Analyzed folder: E:\Sonar Projects\Wave > Files\masters_test\Masters_test\44.1-CD Quality\ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DR Peak RMS Filename > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > DR10 -1.01 dB -12.32 dB 01 Test.wav > DR8 -0.79 dB -10.63 dB 02 Test 1.wav > DR9 -0.71 dB -11.07 dB 03 Test 2.wav > DR10 -0.99 dB -14.52 dB 04 Test 3.wav > DR10 -0.93 dB -11.91 dB 05 Test 4.wav > DR8 -0.81 dB -11.02 dB 06 Test 5.wav > DR11 -1.02 dB -14.31 dB 07 Test 6.wav > DR9 -0.99 dB -12.52 dB 08 Test 7.wav > DR8 -0.94 dB -11.11 dB 09 Test 8.wav > DR10 -0.99 dB -12.92 dB 10 Test 9.wav > DR11 -1.00 dB -14.24 dB 11 Test 10.wav > DR10 -1.02 dB -14.68 dB 12 Test 11.wav > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Number of files: 12 > Official DR Value: DR10 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
