how they mix the audio for home release movies

if you or a loved one has been affected by loud movie volume follow me on twitter @Gusbuckets

It’s like it seems so balanced at the movie theater but then I try to watch the movie at home and my parents are constantly making me turn the volume up every time people start talking but then oh my God it’s fucking horribly louder than the actual shuttle launch at NASA when the action starts in the movie like do they know the word balance the fucking audio

I accidentally increased the volume and kept wondering why everything is so loud

Also, they mix the movie about 30 times quiter than Video Games, so you turn the audio up to watch the movie, then once you're done you exit to the PlayStation menu and it makes you go deaf immediately.

So much truth in a 47 second video. Wtf already Hollywood?

I can't watch Hulu in my mom's basement because of this

A-freaking-men gus!!!

THANK YOU! I have been saying this for years!

and people wonder why I have subtitles on

YEP.

creative use of powerdrill, never seen one with a light on it tho

That's why I leave my TV on night mode in the audio settings.

The "dialogue" or "news" settings usually sound decent too.

Hope this actually helps someone, my gf showed me that and it made a world of difference.

Geez, go home video description, you're drunk

I'm in a film class where I'm fairly sure the professor has bad hearing, so she always turns the volume up all the way.
The film class is about women in action films.
I sit in the last row... right next to the speakers.

I haven't heard a single thing from the first day of class.

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Accurate.

Slightly more quiet dialog and somewhat louder noises here?

i don’t understand?

when you have to hold the remote the entire time to continually adjust volume

so true and also so annoying

100000000000% find myself turning up and down the volume on Netflix every time i watch a movie or tv show on there...

I swear there are some movies in On Demand or Netflix or DVD where I have to clench my remote to turn up the volume for dialogue and turn it down for music and sound effects. I might as well be playing a video game with all the button pressing

Kinda funny, the ad for this video was longer than the video itself.

just change the language to English and not English 5.1

Obviously anyone who agrees with this video clearly watch their movies with shitty tv speakers. The audio for home media is specifically mixed for a proper home theater system in mind with dynamics intacted. Granted they should release like a 2.0 mix for tv playback it self but this is clearly not an issue for anybody with the proper setup. I refuse to let them mess up great mixes for people that only watch with their tv speakers or crap speakers in general. Get better equipments!

Lul

This is definitely a 2008 volkswagen jetta moment

So when they actually mix the audio, is the dialogue lowered and music raised intentionally? or they just don't know what they're doing?

Cranked it up to wumbo I see

Throughout the entirety of watching Stranger Things on Netflix I had a remote in hand for when ear-bleedingly loud sound effects were played

*cough fast and furious *cough

He didn’t eject the flash drive

Good Midwestern Lutherans in an ELCA shirt

This is why I only watch movies muted.

All I want to do is watch fight club while cleaning my room but every 10 seconds theres an earthquake in my house.

THANK YOU!!!

What if gus Johnson and brewstew collaborated

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Gotta have my remote in my hand so I can turn it down when loud shit happens and not wake up my family and then turn it back up again so I can hear dialogue.

Alas, I have but one like to give.

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I was watching Thor: Ragnarok on my tv, listening to Thor talk and all of a sudden you hear Immigrant Song 'AAAAAA' was really something

Oh my fuck. THANK YOU!

Can’t hear you over the drill

I'm guessing a lot of this has to do with home equipment, as well. If you're playing surround sound through an HDMI cable in stereo, you'll have terribly quiet dialog and terribly loud explosions.

This is the realest shit ive ever seen in my entire life

TVs/dvd players/netflix usually default to compressing the 5.1 to come out of TV speakers, which makes the dialogue relatively quiet.

If you switch to the standard "stereo" audio option, then the volumes will be much more balanced on tv speakers.

I want an example