Normalize Audio For Movies And Tv Shows

One of the most annoying things about Movies and Tv shows is poor sound mixing. Sometimes they are too loud at other times they are barely audible. Fortunately there is an easy fix to normalize the audio / sound track for movies and tv shows.

VLC the popular free video player has built in options to solve this problem. Here is  a quick video from lifehacker explaining how:

ProTip: Set the attack to around 50 ms and the release to around 300 ms. Much more fluid work on the dynamic range compression.  (via Reddit.)