Any sound / sound editing engineers in the house?

[StevieBee]

Not strictly music but seems an appropriate place to ask....

Question relates to editing videos...

I have a pair of bookshelf monitor speakers with a volume control. A pair of headphones, also with volume control. I can set the output volume of the computer and also the output volume of the editing software.

Question is, where should all these volume settings be set?

[Mortarboard]

Depends (not much help I know)

For cueing/editing, as long as you can hear it doesn't matter - i.e. the end result isn't effected.

For mastering (levels and such) I prefer to use monitors, set to between 30 and 70%. Use feed outputs to make the noise level comfortable.

M.