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Originally Posted by georgia  same here.... most indies just don't have the budget to do 3 versions... The best i've done for some of these low budget folk is compress the mix slightly, and lift the levels a tinge for broadcast/DVD so that i'm basically reducing the dynamic range and lifting the mix 3 to 6 db depending and still meeting broadcast or dvd specs as directed... But this is a REAL kludge and not the right answer. bottom line... this is a bad way to deliver a mix. I do this on a overall mix or I do it via stems and do a "polish" pass between stems, but this is still very much "polishing" with a Belt Sander. |
urgh, yes, I have had to do this as well, except I wasn't even the dubbing mixer! I was asked to "fix it up" for the DVD, which was more or less not really possible, so all I could do was compress the whole thing by about 3db, put a limiter at -10dbfs and deliver a new stereo file to them. I felt dirty, but the client was happy.