- Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake
of robertoblake.com,
helping you create something awesome today.
So, today, we're doing another Adobe Premiere tutorial.
I'm gonna show you how to add background music
to your video files.
So, we're gonna use some footage that
you may or may not be familiar with.
This is some scaled down footage of,
when I recorded 4K video, with the Sony A7 Mark II,
that I was borrowing from Lumoid a while back.
And, so this footage is from that shoot of my office,
and some of the equipment that I have.
So, it's a 20-second version of some of that.
We're gonna add some background music,
and I'm gonna show you how to do that
in Adobe Premiere Pro,
and how to set it up for your videos.
So, this is actually really simple
and we're gonna jump right in.
Now, assuming that you haven't imported your audio,
I'm just gonna show you how to do that.
I've already got my video imported here,
but let's go ahead and import that audio.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab it,
from Finder here, in Mac,
you could do the same thing in Windows,
and I'm just gonna drag it into our project files there.
So, we've got that and I can either, monitor
and clip it here and I would just use
the In and Out buttons here,
to clip a section of it that I want.
Usually the first,
I know that my clip is about 20 seconds, so I could do that.
I could just clip 20 seconds of it,
or, I can drag the entire thing from the timeline here,
and then I can use Shortcut C, the Cut tool,
which is also over here, the Razor tool.
And I can cut it exactly where I need it,
and, we'll be good to go there.
Now, something I like to do,
is I like to expand all the tracks.
This lets me see the audio wavefile.
Now, one of the next things we're gonna do is
we're gonna use an effect that's going to allow this
to fade in and fade out.
And this is actually really easy.
If you go into Effects,
there's some different audio effects.
And we're gonna use Audio Transitions.
So, we're going to use Exponential Fade,
we're gonna place that at the beginning here,
and we're gonna place it at the end.
This is gonna let our audio fade in and out smoothly.
And, we're gonna just drag and drop that.
The next thing we're gonna do in Effects is
we're gonna get a video effect
and we're going to get a,
and we're gonna get Cross Dissolve.
Actually, we're not gonna get Cross Dissolve.
We're gonna get Dip to Black.
We're gonna get Dip to Black, and we're gonna put that
at the beginning
and we're gonna put that at the end,
and we're gonna make sure that the Dip to Black aligns up
with our Exponential Fade,
so that as it fades in, from the audio,
it fades in with the video.
So, we're gonna do that
and I'm gonna play this back for you guys,
and you're gonna be able to see it.
(uplifting music)
And, you can see what a difference that makes.
That's just like a movie trailer,
so that's actually pretty cool.
Now, if I wanted to adjust some things with that,
I could go to the audio mixer,
and what I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna go to Window,
and I'm gonna go to Audio Track Mixer.
And let's say you had multiple audio tracks.
Let's say you had a voiceover or something.
You can mix these down
by adjusting the different pieces of audio,.
So, you could do that with Track One, and pull that down.
You could pull down the Master track
if you felt it was too loud over all.
You could do all those things
and it makes a differnce in your final output.
So, that's how you would do that
and these are some basic things you can do
to add background music to your Adobe Premiere videos.
It's not anything complicated at all,
and as you can see there, it's really easy to do.
So, that is how we do it.
In future videos, I'll actually show you audio mixing,
with something, like one of my YouTube videos,
I'll take a short clip from that from you guys,
and we'll actually mix the background audio
with a voiceover track.
I'll also show you how to add voiceover tracks
to Adobe Premiere Pro in an upcoming tutorial.
So, make sure you subscribe
and you're staying tuned for that.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this.
If you still have questions about audio
for Adobe Premiere Pro,
or where you can get relatively free audio
for your YouTube videos,
I'm using AudioBlocks.
You can get that from the description link below.
It's 99 bucks a year.
If you use the 90% off deal that I have for you,
so that is tremendous
and I would definitely take advantage of that.
Unlike other stock audio, you can actually use
these indefinitely and in as many projects as you want,
and even paid projects for your clients,
so I highly recommend that.
You know, a lot of other people are using them.
I am as well.
So, definitely jump onboard with that.
If audio is something that you're struggling with,
with copyrights and music for your YouTube videos.
Anyway, like this video if you like it,
don't forget to subscribe,
check out the other awesome content on the channel.
As always you guys, thanks so much for watching,
and don't forget.
Create something awesome today.