So what does mastering your audio actually mean? How do you do it in premiere pro? And what does it
actually do to your soundtrack? tThat's what we're going to talk about in today's video.
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later on in the video for now let's go ahead and jump on in
So mastering is the final step of sound editing in mixing it just takes all of the elements of
your soundtrack puts them together and makes sure it sounds good. According to Matt Forger who is
the music producer for Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones he said that mastering is what gives depth
punch clarity as well as volume to your final track. Mastering however isn't going to get rid of
any background noise in your video or any clicks and pops that's going to be sound editing and if
you want to learn how to do that you can click up here to watch. So in most video editing programs
the mastering takes place on one audio track, the master track. To open up your audio track
mixer go up to window and go to audio track mixer and select the according sequence [the accordion,
the according sequence?] and now you can see we have all these controls for each audio track
in our timeline and the last one here is called the mix and that's the one that we're going to
apply the mastering effect to so up in the upper left there's this tiny little carrot here and you
need to actually click on this to show the effects it's such a tiny little thing but that's the key
to opening the effects here. Then from the mix soundtrack the last one from the drop down select
the effect selection and from special you're going to go to mastering. And then we need to make some
changes so you actually need to double click on the effect first and we're not going to use the
default but there's some pretty cool presets in here for example there's the dream sequence
so if i play my track here it'll make it sound like it's kind of in a you know dream sequence
effect so obviously we don't want to use this for this particular video there's also a warm concert
hall it has this nice concert hall reverb in today's video I'm going to show you how to create
a rapid photo shuffle effect you can use the mastering effect for some special effects as well
in this case all we want to use is subtle clarity remember what matt forger said to
bring some clarity and some punch to your audio use subtle clarity now reverb you can adjust
this depending on what you need but 20 is a little high for what i like i'm gonna reduce this down to
around five percent and also i like to adjust the output gain for your final mix you want it to be
between minus six and minus 12 decibels on average so it might be a little bit more or a little bit
less so if you notice in your audio meters if it's a little bit low you can actually use the output
gain to add some decibels so let's say let's add 1.5 decibels and then let's go ahead and bring
this down and play it back with the effect on in today's video i'm going to show you how to create
a rapid photo shuffle effect so that way you can start using it in your own videos and this is what
it sounded like without it in today's video i'm going to show you how to create a rapid photo
shuffle effect so it's really that simple it just added a little bit more presence clarity and punch
to the entire mix which will start making your videos just sound overall better so if
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