u/artist1707

I’m mastering my movie audio in Audition, and this is the first time I’m attempting mastering. The movie is primarily driven by a lot of music and dialogue, with a lot of dynamics. My mastering chain includes a subtle parametric EQ to reduce mud at the 250 Hz range, a little bit of compression to glue everything together using the SSL Master Buss compressor, and the stock brick-wall limiter to control the peaks. I adapted this chain from u/Jason_Levine ’s Audio Masterclasses (primarily focussed on music mastering). I just want to know what a typical mastering chain is for lengthy movie audio like this. I’m also thinking of using the Waves L4 Ultramaximizer for the limiter. Any thoughts on this? Do you think this will color the audio and be unsuitable for movie mastering? Should I instead stick to the brick-wall Limiter inside the “Multiband Compressor”? Any help is highly appreciated.

I sent my sequence from Premiere to Audition for mixing. When I exported the mix back to Premiere, the length of the audio file matched the length of my video timeline. But when I dragged the same audio file from the Audition session folder to a new track in Premiere, the file was longer by 16 frames. Do I need to worry about this? I played this extra section and I don’t hear anything. The volume meters are hitting at -84db at this section. Is this because of the reverb bus that I'm sending my last clips through? Is Audition trying to account for the reverb tail?

I intend to master the file now. I'm worried that the length mismatch will cause alignment issues.

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