- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I will give you an introduction
to audio editing in Adobe Premier Pro.
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Here we are inside Adobe Premier Pro, and you'll see,
I've got a video track here with an audio track down below.
So all the video appears on the V tracks
and all of the audio I mix will be here
on the A tracks down below.
First thing I'll do is I'll actually expand
this track out a little bit,
so I can really see the waveform
and I can use plus and minus to zoom in on my keyboard
to really get an idea of what is going on.
So let's take a look at some of the things I do.
First of all, I would switch Adobe Premiere Pro
to the audio workspace up here.
This gives me a few tools to work specifically with audio.
Now, for instance here, I've got dialogue.
Let's play a bit.
"Hello. I'm Mike Russell from Music Radio."
Okay so that's me speaking on a lavalier microphone.
I will select that audio and tell Premiere
that it is dialogue okay.
That means I can now work with that dialogue.
I can improve that dialogue using things like dynamics
to make it a little louder and clearer.
Let's try that.
"Hello. I'm Mike Russell from Musicradiocreative."
You can hear how that boosts up the sound of the voice.
I can add on some EQs if I want.
That's available to me down here
and let's give it a nice preset like podcast voice.
"Hello, I'm Mike Russell from Music Radio."
Just again, enhances the voice with a few clicks,
really easy to do.
Okay next I want to take a look at the audio clip mixer,
which is over here.
It's up here in this window.
Audio Clip Mixer allows me to mix multiple clips together
and see what the levels are like.
So obviously if I play this, "Hello, I'm Mike."
That's my voice.
And I can actually go ahead and rename that if I want,
I can call this Voice.
So I know for sure that is my voice track.
And down here, I've got a music bed.
I can bring that in and drop it in on A2.
And I can actually label this as music
so that now the music is playing underneath my voice.
(upbeat music) "Hello I'm Mike Russell"
But as you can see from the levels,
let's rename this to music the second track now.
The music is way too loud,
so I can go ahead and do different things.
First of all, I could normalize my voice track by hitting
the G key on my keyboard G,
and I can normalize the max peak to zero DB.
And what that means is the loudest part of my voice
will be maximized to be the loudest it can be.
Let's click okay.
And it's made a small little change there,
but if this voice was really quiet,
let's actually take this down by quite an amount.
There we go.
If this recording was a lot quieter
and I hit the G key and went normalize max peak to zero DB,
boom, it's gonna make that voice really loud.
Now in the same way, I can go onto the music track.
I can hit the G key and I can actually say,
adjust the gain by, well, actually take off 9 dB.
So minus 9 dB.
Click okay.
Let's play it back now.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell from Music Radio Creative."
And you can start to hear that the mix
is getting a lot better there.
Now I can do more with this.
Another little tip
I like to say when you're editing audio in the audio
workspace of Premiere, is hit the plus key here
below the program preview.
And you've actually got a load of buttons
that aren't normally available.
One of my favorites for audio editing is loop playback.
You can drag this down onto your bar here,
and you can enable this.
And what I'll do is I'll actually select the start
of my voice and I'll take it to here.
And I'm putting in and out markers by hitting I
for the in marker and O for the out marker.
You can also do that by right clicking and adding your
in and out markers.
You can either clear in, clear out,
or you can add in and out markers as well.
And when I enable loop,
"Hello I'm Mike Russell"
it loses random round.
"On my channel.
Hello I'm Mike Russell from..."
And I can actually make that shorter if I want to really
focus in on a small part of audio.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell.
Hello I'm Mike Russell.
Hello I'm Mike Russell."
And as I do that,
I can change levels here on the mix of you.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell."
So you can hear,
I'm getting the music bed to the correct level.
So you can really hear what I'm saying.
And then we're gonna go to the audio track mixer here,
where you can actually pop out this tiny little triangle
in the top left,
but don't be deceived by the tiny little triangle
because it's full of a lot of power.
Now I can add effects to each different track.
So if I wanted to add an effect to, let's have a look here.
If we actually go down to the bottom of this view,
you'll see, this is my voice track.
This is like an effects track
where I can add lots of different audio effects.
So a basic effect I might want to add to my voice
is under Filter and EQ, some parametric equalizer.
And once that's added,
I can go in and on loop mode,
I can start adding things like a high pass filter.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell."
That's rolling off some of the bass
so we can pull up the high end by
taking this high dot here.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell."
"Hello I'm..."
And we can also start messing around with frequencies.
"Mike Russell."
"Hello I'm Mike Russell." "Hello I'm Mike Russell."
It's quite crazy hearing the same phrase over and over,
but it does help when you're working with audio.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell."
"Hello I'm..."
Okay, so we've got some EQ on there.
And finally, I might go in and add a little bit of dynamics.
It's under the amplitude and compression dynamics.
And in here, I'm allowed to do things such as compressing.
So again, push the ratio up a little bit.
Put on a limiter, so it doesn't get too loud.
What that will do is it will stop the audio peaking
above minus 1 dB, no matter how loud you go.
"I'm Mike Russell." "Hello, I'm Mike Russell."
"Hello I'm Mike Russell."
So as you can see,
I'm compressing my audio and then I'm turning up the gain
till I hit the limiter.
And we've got quite a sweet spot there.
Let's actually disable loop mode. Play this all back now.
"Hello I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
On my channel..."
And you get the idea of exactly what is possible.
So that's audio editing in a nutshell in Adobe Premier Pro.
We've got dialogue, we've labeled it as such.
We've put in music, we've labeled it as such.
We've changed gains using the G key or the mixer
in the audio workspace.
And we've even delved into adding different effects
to certain audio tracks inside the sequence
that you're working on in Premiere Pro,
whether that's a bit of parametric equalizer
to shape the frequencies in the voice
or a little bit of the dynamics effect
to compress the voice further and make it even easier
to hear what is being said.
There's so much you can do, too much probably to cover
in one video, but let me know how you work with audio
in Premiere Pro and what kind of video you'd like to see
next on my channel in the comments down below.
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