Normalizing Audio?

[ajfaull]

I have video captured by my All-In-Wonder Pro 128. However, the recorded sound track is a little on the quiet side, campared to my music and TV software.

The videos are captured as MPEG-2, then clipped and split into separate Video and PCM data by DVD2AVI. then recombined using TMPGEnc.

When I have Normalizing turned on in DVD2AVI, I get no sound at all. With it turned off the volume is weak, and I like to batch process all the TMPGEnc processes at night while I sleep, and TMPGEnc's normalize function is not stored as part of the project.

How do I normalize my sound?

Thanks in Advance

Andy

[calamari]

Convert to AVI using DVD2AVI without normalizing the audio, extract the audio from the AVI and save as WAV using VirtualDub, normalize the WAV in a sound editing program like Cool Edit, then encode to MPG with TMPGEnc specifying the AVI for video and the normalized WAV for audio.

calamari

[banjazzer]

A much smaller (and free) way to normalise the wav is to use Normalize http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/normalize0241.zip