- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you some of my favorite
keyboard shortcuts for audio editing in Adobe Premier Pro.
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Here we are in Adobe Premier Pro.
First thing I like to do is actually be able
to see the audio tracks I'm working with.
So Alt or Option, if you're on Mac,
and the Plus or Minus keys will increase the size
of the wave forms that you're working with
so you can really see those audio tracks.
Now, another annoying little thing that happens
to me in Adobe Premier Pro,
because of the way my audio interface is set up,
my microphone is plugged into channel one,
so I only get the recording from channel one
when I'm recording a voiceover onto an audio track.
- [Narrator] This is a voiceover recording.
So you can hear it really quietly over in the left.
Now, if I want to boost that up and make that loud,
I'd hit the G key, which I remember as gain on my keyboard,
and I normalize the max peak to zero.
That makes it nice and loud.
- [Narrator] This is a voiceover recording.
- But you'll hear that it's still only on the left,
which is annoying.
Even this over here.
- [Narrator] This is a voiceover recording.
- Is showing that it's only on the left
and it's hitting the red,
so let's actually hit the G key again,
and maybe normalize it to minus one
so that it's not so loud.
- [Narrator] This is a voiceover recording.
- Okay, perfect volume on that.
Now let's get it over onto the right.
Quick and easy way to do it is Shift + G,
and then you can actually choose the channels.
So in this case, I want the left to be the left channel,
and I want the right to also come from the left channel.
So I change the way I tick there, click okay.
And look at what it's done,
it's placed my left over on the right as well.
- [Narrator] This is a voiceover recording.
Oh yes, fantastic.
So, so far we've remembered the G key to change the gain
or the volume levels of our audio in Adobe Premier Pro,
and Shift + G to alter those channels
if we get one-sided or one-legged audio.
We also remember that we can use the Alt or Option key,
Minus and Plus, to make those wave forms as big
or as small as we like on our screen.
Another thing we can do,
you may well be familiar with the fact
that you can hit the Control or Command + D on your video
and you can do a fade in and see it like that on the video.
And you can also do a fade out on there.
See, so that's fading in and out.
But did you know
you can also do fade ins and fade outs on audio tracks,
and the way you do that with the audio selected
or the audio and video is you hit the Control
or Command + Shift + D.
And look at this,
you get fade ins and fade outs on your audio.
You can then zoom in on your sequence here,
and you can move this fade.
And that is a nice fade in for your audio
and fade out on your audio.
It can be good on your voice, your dialogue tracks,
and also on music tracks as well, if you need it.
Final thing I love to work in when I'm working specifically
with audio and a shortcut that, well, I wish was default
is the ability to change this timeline here
from working in frames.
As you can see, I'm working in frames up there
to working in audio time units,
where I can go really detailed
and I can zoom right in on my audio here.
And I can actually move along
and see everything in samples here rather than frames.
Now, I wish there was a default keyboard shortcut
to get this, but at the moment
I have to right-click the timeline and select it.
But not anymore,
not after I've gone to the edit menu, keyboard shortcuts,
and I'll type into the search bar up here, audio time units.
And you'll see there's lots.
But what I'm looking for, if I scroll around,
is the timeline panel.
And I've actually assigned it,
but by default, this is not assigned.
This has nothing assigned.
I assign Alt + A, because you'll see
nothing is assigned to that as a keyboard shortcut.
Click okay.
And now all I have to do is Alt + A,
and I get the audio units on my timeline,
Alt + A again, and it's back to video frames.
So video frames, Alt + A, and I'm in audio,
Alt + A, and I'm back to default.
It's a shortcut that should really be default
in Adobe Premier Pro, particularly if you do a lot
of moving around and editing with audio in your sequence.
So remember to assign that in the edit menu,
under keyboard shortcuts,
you will thank me, and you'll use it lots.
What shortcuts are you using to edit audio
in Adobe Premier Pro?
Let me know in the comments below this video.
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