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7. Move any aliases you manually created to the Trash.
8. Empty the Trash after deleting the above files and folder.
9. Dialog Normalization
Dialog Normalization is the use of metadata to control playback level. It has no
effect on encoding or decoding. It is an instruction to playback equipment to
adjust the level of all channels, post-decoding.
A single DIALNORM value is applied to a given program: level is not adjusted
within a program. There is no compression involved. All channels are affected
equally.
DIALNORM can only attenuate.
The DIALNORM value entered into the encoder is the subjective average dialog
level of the program, not the amount of playback attenuation. The subjective
average dialog level is typically approximated by LeqA measurement. The
correspondence between
DIALNORM value and attenuation is given in the
following table.
DIALNORM value Attenuation
(dialogue level, dBFS LeqA) (dB)
-31 0
-30 1
-29 2
-28 3
-27 4
-26 5
-25 6
-24 7
-23 8
-22 9
-21 10
-20 11
-19 12
-18 13
-17 14
-16 15
DIALNORM value Attenuation
(dialogue level, dBFS LeqA) (dB)
-15 16
-14 17
-13 18
-12 19
-11 20
-10 21
-9 22
-8 23
-7 24
-6 25
-5 26
-4 27
-3 28
-2 29
-1 30
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