Premiere Pro Guru: Mixing Audio Clips and Tracks

Learn how to mix audio, add effects and transitions, edit clip length and speed, and record and export separate audio tracks in Premiere Pro.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up the Mix

• Knowing your equipment and setting up your audio
• Understanding gain and levels
• What is normalization and when should we use it?
• Changing the interface to suit your needs
• Understanding the types of audio tracks
• Audio channels together? No problem! Separate your audio tracks

2. Mixing Your Sound

• Understanding audio meters, dynamic range, and clipping
• Adjusting levels in the Timeline
• Adding keyframes
• Understanding audio transitions
• Audio clip and track mixer: What's the difference?
• Understanding automation modes, part 1: Read, write, touch, and latch
• Understanding automation modes, part 2: Read, write, touch, and latch
• What are submixes and why should I use them?

3. Commonly Used Effects

• Multiband compressor
• Limiter
• EQ
• Loudness radar
• Reverb
• DeEsser
• DeHummer
• Understanding pre- and post -faders
• Use Audition to clean up your audio
• Healing noise in Audition
• Using Audition to match the level of your clips

4. Other Audio Editing Tips

• How do you restore deleted audio?
• Trim your audio on the go
• Change the speed of audio, not the pitch
• Recording a scratch track
• Exporting audio

5. Essential Sound Panel

• Introduction to the Essential Sound panel
• Unify loudness in your audio
• Repairing your audio
• Working with music and sound effects clips
• Creating and modifying presets

6. New and Updated Effects

• Convolution reverb
• Distortion
• FFT Filter
• Notch Filter
• Scientific Filter
• Hard Limiter
• Pitch Shifter

Conclusion

• Goodbye