Premiere Pro Guru: Mixing Audio Clips and Tracks

Course details

Good audio makes for great video, and with Premiere Pro, you can make your audio sound great. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Luisa Winters walks through the process of mixing audio—adjusting levels, adding transitions, and more—and then stepping it up a notch with some commonly used effects, such as EQ, reverb, and de-essing. She also includes tips for changing the length and speed of your audio tracks, recording scratch tracks, and exporting audio separately from video.

Learning objectives
Knowing your tools
Setting up audio in Premiere Pro
Adjusting audio levels in the Premiere Pro timeline
Adding keyframes
Working with audio transitions
Using the Limiter and EQ effects
Healing noise in Audition
Trimming audio on the go
Recording and exporting audio

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up the Mix

03 - Knowing your equipment and setting up your audio
04 - Understanding gain and levels
05 - What is normalization and when should we use it
06 - Changing the interface to suit your needs
07 - Understanding the types of audio tracks
08 - Audio channels together No problem Separate your audio tracks

2. Mixing Your Sound

09 - Understanding audio meters, dynamic range, and clipping
10 - Adjusting levels in the Timeline
11 - Adding keyframes
12 - Understanding audio transitions
13 - Audio clip and track mixer - What's the difference
14 - Understanding automation modes, part 1 - Read, write, touch, and latch
15 - Understanding automation modes, part 2 - Read, write, touch, and latch
16 - What are submixes and why should I use them

3. Commonly Used Effects

17 - Multiband compressor
18 - Limiter
19 - EQ
20 - Loudness radar
21 - Reverb
22 - DeEsser
23 - DeHummer
24 - Understanding pre- and post -faders
25 - Use Audition to clean up your audio
26 - Healing noise in Audition
27 - Using Audition to match the level of your clips

4. Other Audio Editing Tips

28 - How do you restore deleted audio
29 - Trim your audio on the go
30 - Change the speed of audio, not the pitch
31 - Recording a scratch track
32 - Exporting audio

5. Essential Sound Panel

33 - Introduction to the Essential Sound panel
34 - Unify loudness in your audio
35 - Repairing your audio
36 - Working with music and sound effects clips
37 - Creating and modifying presets

6. New and Updated Effects

38 - Convolution reverb
39 - Distortion
40 - FFT Filter
41 - Notch Filter
42 - Scientific Filter
43 - Hard Limiter
44 - Pitch Shifter

Conclusion

45 - Goodbye