If you edit videos,
there's one common task that you're probably familiar with, and that's
chopping up the background music so it fits the duration of your project.
Now, personally, I enjoy doing this process manually,
but I'm always down to learn a different workflow.
So in this video, I want to show you one method that automatically
takes your background music and loops it to whatever duration
you want to using Adobe Audition's remix tool.
It analyzes your song files
identifying hundreds of loops, transitions and important segments,
and then allows you to quickly remix to any duration.
For this tutorial, I wanted to experiment
with different kinds of songs right here, I've downloaded a couple from Arlist.io
It's a royalty free music and sound effects website for video creators.
This video is not sponsored by them, but I do use this service a lot.
And if you want to check them out, I'll link to it in my description below.
And if you subscribe using that link, they'll throw in two extra months,
which is pretty cool.
There are many ways that you can get the track from Premiere Pro to Audition.
Number one is right click inside the project been edit
and Adobe Audition, clip.
Maybe your music is already down on the timeline.
It's the same process.
Right. Click the clip edit clip in Adobe audition.
Now, you may not even have anything within Premiere Pro.
In that case, you could just open up,
audition, drag the clip directly from the finder.
However you do it, you just need to get it into audition.
If you double click your track in your files bin
it brings up the clip in the waveform editor.
But in order to utilize the remix tool, we need to edit
our clip using the multitrack editor to do that.
You can go to View Multitrack or right here is the multitrack icon.
We'll be prompted to create a new session.
We can name it. We can set up the location of that project.
You can set up the sampling a bit rate of the project
if you know what they are from the source files beforehand.
But just to show you
if you're unfamiliar with what those settings are or what they even do.
Don't worry, audition is a very robust program.
So as you can see, when I click and drag this song onto the timeline,
even though my sampling rate is a mismatch, it's going to create a copy.
So the file does conform to my Adobe audition session.
So before I remix this, let me showcase to you
for this particular song how there's a bunch of different sections to it.
[Classical Music Plays] Right here, there's an introduction
and then we add a melody.
Next, we change the supporting rhythm of the harmony,
and then we have another switch in melody and the depth of how
many instruments there are.
We have this short solo section,
then it goes back into this more chaotic section that just slaps, in my opinion,
and from this point onward, the song has already introduced
each melody, harmony and texture.
It's just for the remainder of the song.
It gives you variations of those.
So now that you have a general idea of what we're starting with, let's remix it.
What the clip highlighted, you can go up to clip.
Remix. Enable remix, or you can just right click on the clip,
go to remix, enable remix
after it's done analyzing, we'll see these little squiggly lines
in the top corners of the clip that indicates that remix is enabled.
You also see within the properties bin of the clip,
we now have options under the remix tab.
The original length of the song is past the three minute mark.
And let's say we want to create a one minute version of the song
so I can type that into the target duration.
Hit enter and boom.
We have a remixed version of this song.
That's one minute.
Now, let me undo this in another way that you could set the duration is by
clicking and dragging the squiggly lines on the corners to your desired location.
So before I play this, I want you to notice
that the duration of the remix is actually different
from what I typed into the target duration.
And this is because we have a plus or minus five second variance
set up to give us the best sounding transitions in the cut.
These squiggly lines on the clip indicates where audition has placed
their transitions in order to create this one minute cut.
So let's listen to how it did.
[Music Plays] That wasn't too bad.
Let's go to this second transition right here.
That was pretty good that see, this transition was really great.
Now, there are some other parameters that we can look at here
inside the advanced tab.
You can stretch it to exactly what you want your target to be,
which will make it sound a little bit more artificial.
So if you can avoid this, stretch it to the exact duration,
I would unclick that we have edit length, and if I take this
all the way down to short, you'll see what it does.
Now, we have many more edits throughout the piece.
That's something that's probably not as good,
but you can always move your slider to wherever you want to
to make it sound better instead of a
one minute duration, let's say I wanted to make this 10 minutes long.
That was a very good transition, and I'm assuming
for each one of these cuts, it's kind of doing that same transition
and this is where the edit length kind of comes into play.
Obviously, I want a much longer cut.
So if I go long right here on the edit
length, it makes more sense if I switch this over to short.
It's just getting crazy.
And for the feature slider, it focuses on the timbre and harmonic characteristics
of the sound when searching for the optimal transition points.
If you get with that means, great.
But like with most things within the Adobe universe, it's always best
if you just start moving sliders and seeing exactly how that affects
your material. The transitions before were better, and I'm assuming with Tambor,
these are more of a percussive type of transition.
So it works in this particular song to go more towards the timbre.
But I will restore this back to 50.
So it's right in the middle for the minimum loop.
This is pretty self-explanatory.
It will require the loop segments to be a minimum of X amount of beats.
So right now I have eight beats,
but I believe this can go all the way up to 64.
It looks like we have about the same transition,
so I'm not even going to play that. What happens if I hit minimum one?
Same thing. And the minimum slack is where you would change this variance up here.
So right now, we're at plus or minus five seconds, but
this can go up to a variance of 30 seconds.
That one sounds about the same.
Yeah, that transition always kind of sounded good,
but notice that now we're going up beyond the one minute
mark by almost 30 seconds right here.
Now, instead of working with the same song,
you might ask yourself, well, how does something with lyrics sound
for this example I have a song with lyrics.
Down here is the original cut, and it's three minutes and 22 seconds long,
and then I've remixed it down to this shorter version.
Let me mute this.
And the surprising thing is right here, it's created three
separate edits and it's held the integrity of the chorus with those edits.
Let me show you what I mean.
That's crazy that it was able to keep those lyrics
the same and create those edits for this much shorter version of the song.
After throwing a couple of other genres at Adobe audition and utilizing
this feature, I have to say, overall, I am super impressed with the capabilities
of what this can do.
The ones where I'm finding really good results
is if you throw this into Adobe audition and you make a very long cut.
So right here I have an example of that down below.
This is the original song.
And on top, I've remixed this out to about 10 minutes.
So it added the transition near
the end of the song and then repeated it from basically the beginning of the song.
And this is where this process really shines in terms of workflow.
If you need to keep looping or repeating a song for a very long period of time,
utilizing this remix feature within Adobe
Audition is a great asset to add to your toolkit as a video editor.
Once you're done with these edits and you want to get this
back into Premiere Pro.
One way is to right click the clip, go to export mics down
and selected clips, because you're probably only working with one clip,
figure out where you want the export to go and hit ok.
Here's that file.
And it's the same as what you would do with any kind of footage.
You could just drag that straight into the bin.
And there is my ten minute clip that I created.
Another way that you could get it over to Premiere Pro is file export, export
to Adobe Premiere Pro, you could export each track as a stem,
or you could just mix down the whole session to a stereo mono or 5.1 file.
Right here I'm going to do export each track as a stem. hit export.
And you could send these tracks to new audio tracks
or if you already have tracks set up for that music to come into.
You could do that.
So I'm going to hit music one because I already have my music tracks set up.
So I'll hit that hit, OK.
And down here are the two tracks.
This track is completely blank
because inside audition, I had this one muted, which it should be.
And then this is the same wave file that we were just looking at,
where it's the extended, remixed version of that song.
Now that we've discussed
how you can automatically remix the duration of your background music
in your videos, you can hit that like button if this was helpful.
And if you want to learn how to cut to the beat of that music
within Premiere Pro and I just made a video about it right here.
All right. Until next time.
My name is Javier Mercedes
and I hope you're out there living a life of abundance bye.