Premiere Pro Guru: Audio Finishing Techniques

Get practical techniques for finishing the audio side of a project using Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition.

Introduction

• Working with audio in Premiere Pro
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Working in Collaboration

• Should you hand this to another artist?
• Track organization
• Exporting audio for other artists
• Exporting a video reference

2. Track and Clip Levels

• Switching between track- and clip-level control on the Timeline
• Keyframing clip properties in the Timeline
• Keyframing track properties in the Timeline
• Adjusting and smoothing keyframes
• Adding clip effects

3. Using the Audio Clip and Track Mixers

• Overview of the Audio Clip Mixer
• Overview of the Track Mixer
• Stereo vs. 5.1 vs. multichannel output master tracks
• Automation modes in the mixers
• Using track effects
• Using submixes and bussing audio

4. Essential Sound Panel in Premiere Pro

• Audio types
• Audio levels
• Repair audio
• Audio clarity
• Duration
• Automatic ducking
• Reverberation
• Using presets

5. Essential Sound Panel

• Compression using Dynamics
• Compression using Multiband Compressor
• Limitting
• Adjusting gain
• Normalizing
• EQ
• De-esser

6. Restorative Techniques with Audition

• Sending a clip to Adobe Audition
• Sending a sequence to Adobe Audition
• Getting a sequence back to Premiere Pro
• Fixing plosives
• Noise reduction
• Healing audio
• Speed changes
• Matching volume

7. Audio Legalization

• What does broadcast legal mean?
• Digital peak and true loudness
• Loudness monitoring
• Level QC

8. Output

• Creating stems with submixes
• Creating stems by muting
• Setting up a multichannel output using stems
• Creating a multichannel digital output

Conclusion

• Goodbye