- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you how to crop audio
in Adobe Premier Pro.
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- Okay, let's get into it.
So I've got a recording of myself here.
And I wanna crop this down to around 30 seconds.
Now, what I can actually do
is I can place the play head anywhere,
so I could place the play head here for instance, and say,
I wanna crop the audio at the end here.
And all I'd have to do is make sure the audio is selected
and hit Control or Command, if you're Mac and K.
Now what it's gonna do is it's not only cropped here
at the end of the audio,
but it's also cropped my video file,
that may not be desirable, so Control or Command and Z.
And you'll undo that.
And what you can do is you can actually
unlink the video file by right clicking and clicking unlink.
And now, you can select both tracks individually like that.
So you see now I can select here,
hit Control or Command K and boom,
I've cropped only the audio.
And I can do the same at the start, if I want.
Another alternative,
if your audio is still linked to your video,
you see I've undone.
So I've now got this link to whenever I select one,
it selects the other.
If I hold down the Alt or option key on my keyboard,
I can just select the audio and again, Control Command K,
and then we can go to the start of this as well,
and we can go Control Command K and boom, there we go.
We've got some nicely cropped audio.
I'll actually select and delete the rest of it.
So again, holding down Alt or option,
deleting the front portion, Alt or option again,
deleting the back portion.
Now I've nicely cropped that audio
using just a few keyboard shortcuts.
You can also use the razor tool, that's pretty cool.
The shortcut key for that is C
and I can raise it through again in my audio like that
and crop out certain bits that I want to work with.
Another way, if you're say importing audio,
and you want to crop it, over here, I've got a music bed.
I can double-click it before I even bring it
into my sequence, so double-click,
it brings up a little wave form here
and I can actually crop this right here
inside this preview window before importing it
into my sequence.
So the way I would do that is I'd go and bring this along
and you can actually hear the preview as I drag.
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So I might want to go,
I might wanna go from the start of that beat.
That would be the start of my music bed
rather than right back here.
And then I can add an in-point or hit the I key
to set the in-point and then I might say
that I want the out to be about there.
So again, this shortcut here on the screen,
or O to mark an outpoint and then I can either go ahead
and insert or overwrite using the comma or full stop
or these icons here to get it into my timeline.
So insert is gonna budge everything along.
Or if I click override, of course,
it's gonna overwrite my audio there.
So may not be desirable.
I can also go ahead and just place this
onto like another track as I wish.
But of course, if I insert it over the dialogue,
it is of course going to overwrite the dialogue.
So that's something to be aware of there, but of course,
as you'll see, if I click here to insert,
I can actually then insert,
bring this down onto another track,
bring this over the top like that
so that we've got dialogue mixed with music.
You will see that it's actually cut in.
Let's mute this.
It's cut into the point that I cropped to
in the preview before inserting it into my sequence.
So a few ways that you can crop audio and get it cut down
to your desired length when working with it
in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Let me know if you have any questions about this
in the comments down below.
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