I watched 28 Weeks Later last week, on my 5.1 system, and the mixing was absolutely atrocious. I was constantly adjusting the volume up to hear dialogue, only for a loud as fuck jump scare to blast out my ear drums.

Completely ruined any enjoyment I would have gotten from it.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's tools to normalize audio in a movie. Dynamic range compression or something like the dynaudnorm filter in ffmpeg.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, I was streaming it on Prime, or HBO Max or something so... wasn't really an option at the time.