- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you how to use team projects
now available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
And I'll ask the question,
is it possible to use Adobe Premier Pro as an audio editor?
Let's find out.
Let's hop into Adobe Premier Pro right now,
and look at the title screen we get
when we first boot it up.
This is something that sneaked in under the hood, actually.
It's been Adobe Video World all this week.
And yesterday, I watched a keynote speech
from Patrick Palmer,
one of the product managers for Premier Pro.
And he dropped the,
"Team projects are now available to all."
Look at this. Right here, new team project.
So no matter whether you've got a standard
Creative Cloud account team or enterprise,
you're not just restricted to team and enterprise accounts,
anyone can create a team project, and it's pretty amazing.
It means you can make changes,
and then someone else a hundred miles away,
a thousand miles away, can make a change,
and it all updates and keeps a record.
It's fantastic if you're collaborating with producers.
the only issue here is it's not available
for Adobe Audition. Boohoo.
If you'd like to see team projects available
for Adobe Audition, do click the link below this video,
and add your voice so that we can hopefully, one day,
collaborate between producers on team projects.
But I asked the question in this video,
is it possible to maybe use Adobe Premier Pro
as your primary DAW,
and edit audio rather than video?
Well, let's find out. Let's create this team project.
I'll show you how team projects works,
and I'll also find out
if we can use this as an audio editor.
So we'll give it a name.
Let's call it Music Radio Creative.
That's pretty standard.
And I'm actually going to invite a collaborator here.
Let's edit, and we'll type in either a name or email.
So, Isabella.
Let's invite Isabella
into my first team project inside Premier Pro.
There she is.
Click, invite, boom, invite pending.
She'll get a notification now
on her Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app, which is fantastic.
So now that is set, let's go in,
and let's set this up for audio, shall we?
So, first of all, I'm going to go
to the audio workspace up here
and see if I can use only Adobe Premier Pro to edit audio.
You might actually find some benefits to doing this.
For instance, Adobe stock music and audio
is integrated in Premier Pro, but not Audition.
So you might actually get some perks out of this.
If you're creating a podcast intro, for instance,
all of this Adobe stock audio can be used.
So let's find out what we can do.
Right. This is all a bit confusing and overwhelming.
We don't need all these windows, so let's get started.
And the first thing I'm actually going to do
is create a new sequence.
So I'll go to the editing workspace now,
right click here, new item, and we'll create a sequence.
Now, of course, we've got all these presets,
very, very overwhelming.
Well, we'll just go to digital SLR.
Really doesn't matter the resolution
because, of course, we are not making video here,
we're making audio.
So we're gonna pop open 1080p,
and I'm gonna go for DSLR, 1080p, 30 frames per second.
What is important is to go into the settings
and check the audio box here, okay?
So we've got sample rate. This is super important.
Most video projects are 48,000 hertz,
but if you're working with podcast, audio, radio imaging,
stuff like that, it should be 44,100.
So change that over.
You can also change the display format
to audio samples or milliseconds.
We'll change it to milliseconds, as in Adobe Audition,
that's what we're used to, right?
Okay. So far, so good.
Let's click okay.
Create that sequence.
And there it is, with milliseconds showing up there.
Now, one other thing you can do, if you write click,
you can click show audio time units,
because usually in Premier Pro, you're editing in frames,
and there are many more audio samples in a frame.
So we can find that we're dragging across and missing cuts,
and it's not accurate.
But by simply right clicking and saying,
show audio time units,
now we have a timeline that looks like Adobe Audition.
All right. Fantastic.
So far, so good. Hope you're still with me.
Let's go to the audio workspace back where we were,
and let's rearrange all of this.
First of all, up here, let's find our media files.
And we'll go to media browser over here.
Then we'll look through,
and I'm gonna look through, actually, my disc here,
and I'm gonna go into the producer's folder here,
and we'll find the library, imaging sound effects.
Here we go.
And one of our music radio creative imaging libraries
is here.
We can actually click this icon to create a list view,
and then go into wipes, for instance,
and you'll see, there you go.
There's all the audio as you'd get it
in the media browser in Audition.
I can actually go ahead and make this a little bit bigger
so we can stretch this a different way if we want.
Let's actually undock that panel, pop it over here,
and stretch it all the way down here.
So now we've got like a,
we've got a massive audio file here.
Unfortunately, you can't seem to stretch
this box any bigger, which is rather unfortunate, isn't it?
But you'll see most of the audio is here.
Now, I've got too many video tracks here,
so let's get rid of those.
Let's right click on the sequence over here.
And what we'll do is we'll delete the tracks.
And we'll delete video tracks, all empty tracks.
Leave the audio tracks.
Unfortunately, you're still left with one video track.
You can deselect it if you like,
but it's always gonna be there.
We can then go in and add some tracks as well.
Let's add tracks.
And we'll add, say, three more audio tracks.
So we get something that resembles a multi-track
in Audition because, of course, you've got six.
And for some reason, it adds another video track again.
So let's delete that track. There we go.
So, now, audio one, two, three, four, five, and six.
We do not need the video window at all.
So we can actually close that panel.
Get rid of it completely.
We can keep this mixer view if we want.
It's actually quite handy,
but I'm actually gonna stretch
and make this a little smaller.
So that can go up like that.
Now we can focus on the audio.
If we click on these audio tracks, what it will do
is it will actually start making them bigger,
but once we have audio inside.
So let's go ahead and do that.
Let's bring in a wipe and pop it there,
and bring in another wipe and pop it here.
Okay. One thing you'll notice, first of all,
I'm gonna hit the plus and minus keys to zoom in and out
on the sequence here.
You'll notice that, yes, this is very snappy.
It all snaps around.
Click the S key on your keyboard
or hit this magnet icon to switch off snapping.
And now you've got a fluid kind of
multi-track move about here in Premier,
just like you'd get in Audition, which is really good.
Right. Let's double click.
Double click on all of these audio tracks here.
And what this will do is create a rather nice,
let's see, there we go, a rather nice track.
And I don't wanna record any voiceovers just yet,
but I will be doing that in a second
using this microphone icon here.
Okay. That is a little bit bigger.
We can actually go and budge this up.
Let's see if we can get this video track
right out of the way
so we can really just focus in on the audio.
And look at that. Video track out of view now.
Okay. I'm feeling really good about this.
I wanna bring in some Adobe stock music.
Let's find this track.
Let's have a listen. See what we've got here.
So this audio is now playing back.
Although I can't hear anything until I fade it up.
There we go.
There's some light music, isn't it?
And we've got our sound effects playing as well in sync.
Let's play this one, In Awe.
That's quite cool.
We've also got Positive.
And we can just scan through
until we find something that we want to use.
Summer Wood, let's try that.
Okay. The best thing about this,
when you find a track you like,
you can drag and drop it immediately
into your Adobe Premier Pro timeline.
It'll bring in a low quality version.
And when you're ready to license it,
you can click the checkout icon over here,
or you can simply right click and select the license here.
And it will bring up the Adobe stock integration
to immediately license it
and bring a high quality version.
But while you are working,
you can work with a low quality version of the audio.
You can even make cuts, edits, cross fades.
You can send it as a low quality sample to a client
for them to confirm that that's the track I want.
This is phenomenal, right?
Before you go ahead and make some changes.
So let's go and sync this up.
I'm gonna zoom right in and see
if I can use the Premier Pro timeline as an audio editor.
Bringing that swish to the start.
And yeah, we just wanna get that nice and on sync.
So let's go back here, and yeah,
you can even scrub along, which is great in audio.
I love this.
So let's go here.
Let's bring this in over here.
We can actually turn on snapping now
to snap this to the timeline.
Perfect. So that should be a nice swish in.
Perfect.
Okay, and we've got another swish here
we can use at some point.
Now, this is the point where I might go to Audition
and record a voiceover, but no, you can all also do this
in the timeline of Adobe Premier Pro.
So I'm actually gonna do that.
I'm going to go ahead and click the record button,
and I'm just going to simply say some few words.
Welcome to this podcast episode,
a brand new podcast all about using Adobe Premier Pro
as an audio editor,
and using the fantastic team projects feature
now available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
Stop the recording there,
and you'll see my voice ever went boom,
straight into the track.
I can actually play that back and have a listen.
Let's see if we've got anything.
There we go.
Okay. Let's make that a little bit louder.
So let's play this again.
- [Audio] Welcome to this podcast episode,
a brand new podcast all about using Adobe Premier Pro.
- Okay, that's not too bad.
What I might do now is just stretch this marker out
so we get the whole timeline.
And I'm gonna do a few fades
using the pencil in Premier Pro.
So that's P or this little pen icon here.
And I can go ahead and I can duck this music myself.
There is auto ducking, of course,
in the essential sound panel,
but for simplicity here, I'll just.
- [Audio] Welcome to this podcast episode.
- Let's make that a bit louder.
- [Audio] All about using Adobe Premier Pro
as an audio editor,
and using the fantastic team project feature now.
- And then we'll just place this
at the end over here somewhere.
Let's pop it in there.
Again, nice.
- [Audio] Available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
- Okay. Now, you can obviously hear,
I probably need a little bit of compression on my voice.
This is where I can now go up here to my audio mixer.
Let's actually make that view a lot bigger
so we can really see what we're working on here.
This is the audio clip and audio track mixer.
And I can pop this open.
And this is just like the effects rack in Adobe Audition.
I can go to audio track two, which, of course, I can rename.
I can call this Audio Track VO, for voiceover.
There you go, VO.
And I can call audio track one, maybe,
let's label that as SFX.
And let's label track three as,
why not call it, Music?
There we go. Now we've got nice and labeled tracks.
I can actually go ahead and bring this up here.
Leave that swish up there.
If I wanted to move that correctly in time,
switch the snapping back on, back up to the top.
There we go. Snapping off. Now we're good.
So we know the VO track needs a bit of work.
So we'll go into the effects panel here,
and we'll add on some stuff that I'd usually do,
like a bit of parametric equalizer.
That's another cool thing.
Premier Pro has all the same audio effects as Audition,
which makes it super easy to transition to
for audio editing.
And then I'm gonna go ahead, put on a high pass filter.
Let's roll that up.
We can do it in real time if we want.
We can play the audio back and listen.
- [Audio] Welcome to this podcast episode,
a brand new podcast all about using Adobe Premier Pro.
- We're gonna put some high end on.
- [Audio] And using the fantastic team projects feature
now available to all Adobe Creative.
- Okay. We've just notched a few effects there.
Obviously, I'm doing this roughly so you can get an idea.
I wanna add on some compression.
I can easily do that, amplitude and compression dynamics.
And then we'll double click here, and we'll switch on,
first of all, the compressor.
Thresholder minus 20.
We'll put the ratio at three to one to start with.
Maybe we'll need to turn up the makeup game.
- [Audio] Welcome to this podcast episode,
a brand new podcast.
- And we'll actually use the limiter
to make sure I'm not peeking.
- [Audio] All about using Adobe Premier Pro
as an audio editor,
and using the fantastic team projects feature
now available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
- Okay, fantastic.
That swoosh at the end's a little bit loud,
so I'm actually gonna bring this down.
Let's move it down by about minus five DB.
- [Audio] Adobe Creative Cloud users.
- Still a little bit loud.
So, again, on our timeline here, minus nine DB.
- [Audio] Creative Cloud Users.
- Okay. Something really cool.
Now, as you can hear,
the track just gets going there, so I can make an edit.
Yes, this is Adobe stock music,
but I can edit it even without licensing it.
This is amazing.
Okay. Let's take that little bing at the end
and use that to kind of round off my podcast intro.
Then I'm gonna save this out as a team project,
and show you how Isabella could go ahead
and take this on, and make an edit of her own choice.
Okay. Let's make the cut there.
And we'll do a little bit of
cross fade in a second. Bring that in.
- [Audio] Now available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
- Okay. Could have been a much better edit, to be frank.
Let's move it in over here and see how that sounds.
Obviously, we're gonna need to bring that down in the mix,
otherwise it's gonna sound awful.
That's not too bad.
Then I'll go into effects.
And here, we can actually drag on clip effects if we want.
All the audio effects you need are here.
Reverb, modulation, filter and EQ,
the stuff you're used to in Audition.
I'll just go ahead and look for constant power
because this this Premier Pro's equivalent of a cross fade.
Whack it in there.
Maybe change it using my highlighter here.
Just make it a bit smaller.
Okay, now, let's go ahead and close out this team project.
And when you do that,
they ask you if you want to share the changes you've made.
Of course I absolutely do.
It's got a list here of every single change
I made to my project,
so that my collaborators can see what I've done.
And they can see "basic podcast intro.
Please make it better."
Share.
And then boom, it's gone from my end.
Now Isabella can go ahead and open that, make her changes.
And when I reopen it my end,
I'll be able to make further changes if needed.
Okay. Isabella made a quick change,
and she actually went in and added some reverb.
I can see this represented by an arrow,
a sync arrow here saying,
"Isabella Russell has shared changes for this asset."
And then if I look on my timeline down here,
you'll actually see the purple effects icon here,
indicating that a change has been made.
And yes, indeed, I can see,
if I go to the editing workspace,
that reverb has been added to this file.
This is absolutely fantastic.
So this is Isabella's change, her update.
Let's play it back and have a listen.
- [Audio] Welcome to this podcast episode,
a brand new podcast all about using Adobe Premier Pro
as an audio editor,
and using the fantastic team projects feature
now available to all Adobe Creative Cloud users.
- Really, really cool stuff. I'm happy with that.
And you can see over here as well, by the way,
there are icons demonstrating who is using the project.
I'm the owner. I'm online.
If Isabella was also online working away on this,
she would pop up here, and we can share back and forth.
It's really, really amazing.
So for the time being, working the timeline,
the sequencer area of Premier Pro and edit audio,
it is possible.
Obviously, it's not as elegant and as advanced
as Adobe Audition.
And sometimes you can pop clips open
by right clicking and clicking edit clip
in Adobe Audition to do some advanced changes,
noise reduction restoration.
But you'll see, pretty much you can get there
and you can make basic audio.
But what about mixing it down? That's the key thing.
Premier Pro is for video editors.
Are there any audio presets?
Well, good news.
If you go into file,
and then you go to export, and then media,
you can actually go ahead and select wave, waveform audio,
as your setting there.
And you can select a preset here as 48 kilohertz.
I wouldn't suggest that. I'd suggest, again, 44,100 there.
And then you've got something nice and custom.
You can save it. You can render it out as a WAV file.
It's fully possible to do the whole workflow.
That's right. You can actually get audio into Premier Pro,
edit it in audio sample time rather than frame time,
and you can even render it out and collaborate.
So pretty much there is the chance to use team projects
for audio until they please, please Adobe,
bring it to Adobe Audition.
If you like this,
and you'd really like to see it in Adobe Audition,
highly encourage you to click the link
in the description to this video,
and ask Adobe to put team projects into Audition as well.
(upbeat music)