Premiere Pro Guru: Audio Finishing Techniques

Course details

As an editor, you need to know how to mix and sweeten audio yourself, as well as hand off tracks for others to finesse. In this installment of the Premiere Pro Guru series, Luisa Winters shares practical techniques for finishing the audio side of a project using Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. Luisa explores a variety of topics, including track vs. clip level control, mastering the audio mixers, using submixes and automation modes, and working with the Essential Sound panel. Plus, explore restorative techniques with Adobe Audition, as well as how to output audio from Premiere Pro.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Working with audio in Premiere Pro
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Working in Collaboration

04 - Should you hand this to another artist
05 - Track organization
06 - Exporting audio for other artists
07 - Exporting a video reference

2. Track and Clip Levels

08 - Switching between track- and clip-level control on the Timeline
09 - Keyframing clip properties in the Timeline
10 - Keyframing track properties in the Timeline
11 - Adjusting and smoothing keyframes
12 - Adding clip effects

3. Using the Audio Clip and Track Mixers

13 - Overview of the Audio Clip Mixer
14 - Overview of the Track Mixer
15 - Stereo vs. 5.1 vs. multichannel output master tracks
16 - Automation modes in the mixers
17 - Using track effects
18 - Using submixes and bussing audio

4. Essential Sound Panel in Premiere Pro

19 - Audio types
20 - Audio levels
21 - Repair audio
22 - Audio clarity
23 - Duration
24 - Automatic ducking
25 - Reverberation
26 - Using presets

5. Essential Sound Panel

27 - Compression using Dynamics
28 - Compression using Multiband Compressor
29 - Limitting
30 - Adjusting gain
31 - Normalizing
32 - EQ
33 - De-esser

6. Restorative Techniques with Audition

34 - Sending a clip to Adobe Audition
35 - Sending a sequence to Adobe Audition
36 - Getting a sequence back to Premiere Pro
37 - Fixing plosives
38 - Noise reduction
39 - Healing audio
40 - Speed changes
41 - Matching volume

7. Audio Legalization

42 - What does broadcast legal mean
43 - Digital peak and true loudness
44 - Loudness monitoring
45 - Level QC

8. Output

46 - Creating stems with submixes
47 - Creating stems by muting
48 - Setting up a multichannel output using stems
49 - Creating a multichannel digital output

Conclusion

50 - Goodbye