How to EDIT AUDIO in Premiere Pro CC // Tutorial for Beginners!

in this video i'm going to go over basic audio and adobe premiere pro all right so let's get started by doing a quick overview of everything audio related in the adobe premiere pro workspace all right you ready to begin your training yes sensei lesson one okay so the first thing i want to make sure that you know is that premiere has these workspace presets up here and right now i'm in the editing workspace and you might think well we're probably just going to go over here and click on the audio workspace which you can do but for me this messes things up more than i like so i like to work out of the effects workspace and then customize it from here so the first thing is that over under here under effects you're going to see this essential sound tab right here so i'm going to click on that that's something we're going to use later but everything else we're going to deal with is going to be in this window over here and those three things if we click on this double arrow thing over here is going to be effect controls and right now you see nothing is there you have to be clicked on a clip for those to show up the next one is if we click on these again you might see it here but i'm using this to just make sure the next one is the audio clip mixer and if you click on that it looks like this and if you don't see it just go up to window and then go down to audio clip mixer right there and then the last one is the audio track mixer and same thing if you don't see it go up to window and go to audio track mixer and then this is to identify what sequence you are applying that to so check now normally for me i will just keep them all in this window but for this tutorial i'm actually going to click and drag this one out so you see this like purple little angle thing here so i can let go and then i'm also going to drag the audio clip mixer out and do the same thing so that means that at any given time we can have effect controls audio clip mixer and track mixer open all at the same time and then the only other thing in your workspace that you need to be aware of for audio is your meters and this obviously just as you you know play something it shows you your left and right levels on a side note i would also suggest color coding the types of audio clips that you have over here and sorting them into bins like folders if you want as well so i have one folder right here that i've called sound effects and if you look in there one of them is coded as green and the other one is orange but the folder is yellow so i'm actually going to hold ctrl or command and then click and click so that i can right click and then go down here to label and change them all to yellow or whatever color you want so i'm going to click yellow and then i'm going to leave these ones alone because i've already coded them so my video ones that i want video and audio of are going to be blue and then my music is going to be pink it's so beautiful [Music] all right now let's take a look at how we can get our audio clips from here like in our project bin onto our sequence timeline over here now the obvious is you can you know just i'm going to just bring this woosh one over you could just click on a file from here and drag it to your timeline and that's fine except you know in this case i only want the audio because this is just a sound effect and i really only want this first one right here so here's a whoosh i push play and that's the only one that i want but i just brought in everything so my suggestion is not to do it that way so i'm going to delete that my suggestion is to double click it appears like this i'm going to click on the audio part of it and then i'm going to go to you know the part i'm going to zoom in so i get a little more control and i'm going to go right to this point mark in right before it and i'm going to go right here to mark out after it and then you have a choice you can drag the video in only so if i drag this thing in it's only going to drag the video in which we don't obviously want so obviously the thing that we need to do is just drag the audio only so even if you were clicked here you could just click on it and drag just the audio only now if we didn't have this thing checked so right now we have this v1 and a1 if this happens to be unclicked and you go to bring audio in it's not going to let you you're going to be like what why can't i bring in my audio because you have to have this selected in blue and then now we can drag it wherever we want down here another thing to be aware of when you're bringing in you know video and audio together so i'm going to click and drag this one in they're going to come in linked so on the top here's the video and the bottom is the audio and whether i'm clicked on either one and i drag it to move it they're going to move together just know that at some point if you happen to like lock your audio here and move your video now when they're linked it's going to tell you that it's now off by that many frames so i'm negative 19 on the video and i'll give you this red warning so then just make sure you move it back so they're both linked and synced now the last few things that i want to make sure you understand before we actually start editing our audio have to do with our sequence down here so if we look right now yes we have them color coded so we have a pink song we have a yellow sound effect and we have blue dialogue but we should organize these more even within our sequence so i'm going to take this line so this line in the middle here is what divides our video layers up here and our audio layers down there so i'm going to go to the edge here and just slide this up because we don't really need the video space we're dealing with the audio space and i'm going to do the same thing right here so on this line right here i'm going to drag this one down and that just kind of exposes this and we can see now that this is our audio one so this is our audio two and this right here is audio three these are our audio tracks now right now we have our music and our dialogue on the same track so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my music and drag it down to track 2 and i'm going to take my sound effect here i'm going to move it to track 3. i'm just going to arbitrarily plunk it right there and then i'm going to move my dialog right here and the reason why we're doing this is so that we can rename our tracks because right now this one says audio one so i'm going to right click on that and i'm going to rename that to dialog and if we pay attention up here so right now it says audio one there and if i slide this down well it just changed because it's going to change this to dialog and this to dialog in both our audio clip mixer and audio track mixer and then obviously you can rename your other tracks as well but you can do it up here too so i'm going to go music there and you're going to see it's going to change here and if i slide this down it would change it right there and then i'm going to go here to make this one you know just sound f x and if you need more audio track layers than three like i have then all you have to do is one of two things you can right click on this thing right here next to master and then go add track but that's going to add an a1 at the top here and it's going to bump everything down so you can see it added an audio one there and an audio one there or i'm going to go back you can just drag any audio to the blank spot down here so past master down to the bottom and boom it'll add another one right there so now we have a1 a2 a3 and now there's an a4 right there so obviously now whenever you have a new audio clip that you want to bring in just make sure it's color coded and then bring it in to the appropriate track okay so now that you have a general idea of where everything is and what it does let's take a quick look at how to mute or get rid of audio okay so there's actually a whole bunch of different ways that we can mute or get rid of audio within premiere pro so the first way i'm going to show you is actually if you don't even want the audio in here so you dragged it in and you have the video and the audio but you only want the video okay so one way we can do that is by right-clicking and just unlinking them and then clicking on the audio and deleting it okay so then it is completely gone or you can do pretty much the exact same thing by locking the video layer clicking on the audio layer and then deleting it however if you want to keep the audio within your sequence for this clip and you just want to mute it click on it and then if you go over to that essential sound panel and click on edit and then pick the appropriate thing from here for now don't worry about whatever else it does we'll deal with that later when we deal with effects but i'm going to click dialog and then i'm just going to ignore everything else here these are all effects i'm going to go right down to the bottom and just click mute and that's going to mute this clip right here you can also mute entire tracks by just clicking right here on mute and you'll see that it'll show up here and here so you can click either of those ones as well and then if you just want to isolate one layer so you can just listen to one layer and not any of the other ones then just click this s so if i was going to play this right here you're going to see this song is going to play and you're going to hear the whoosh right there but if i just click the s here it'll get rid of everything else except for this track even if i click back on my dialog right here and then unmute it and then we play it again it'll only play the whoosh because we've now said that this is the solo like the single track that we want to hear no matter how many other layers we have we won't play any of that audio now obviously most of the time you're not really going to be looking to mute your audio you just want to make it quieter or on the other end make it louder so i'm going to show you a few different ways that you can do that but before i do i want to just make sure you know to keep an eye on your meters when you're adjusting things to be louder or quieter so this is going to tell you how loud things are and you don't want to go up into the zero here so if i play this you're going to see it's going to bounce way up into the zero there like that's going to clip up there so it's not going to sound good you want to have your peak so the highest the loudest point you want to have it like minus three minus six depending on if it's music maybe a little bit louder and dialogue maybe a little bit quieter if they're not overlapping each other obviously okay so for adjusting the volume of either a clip an entire track or even the entire project i think the best place to start is right here in our sequence or timeline and the first thing i want to make sure you do is go to this line like whatever track you're dealing with go to the line below it drag it down far enough that you can see this thing show up this little like keyframe diamond thing okay we're not going to use that right now but we'll come back to it and then also make sure to click on the clip you're dealing with and then go over here and click on effect controls so now whatever we adjust here we're going to see it in effect controls well we're going to slide down to the audio part right here so you're going to see it in effect controls you're gonna see it on your audio clip mixer your audio track mixer and over here in your essential sound if you scroll down to the bottom and we go here to clip volume so this line is your kind of default audio volume and that's set at zero so when i click on that line and drop it and lower it you're gonna see that when i let go so minus 15.6 db and i let go this is gonna change and this one's gonna change to match it this one didn't because right now we're just adjusting the clip volume not the track volume and then this one over here even though it says clip volume well first of all i'd have to activate it by clicking it here but this is a separate thing look over here hard limiter if i unclick this and then i click it back you can see it's actually an effect that's added it's not part of our master volume so if you want to add that as a separate thing you can i'm just going to uncheck it because it doesn't actually get impacted by what i do here or within these ones over here just know i'm going to slide this over if you change it from here if i slide this up for example i clicked on that and i'm sliding it to the right it's going to add a keyframe and we're going to talk about this later in the next section with dynamics so if you just want to raise the volume up or down i'm going to undo that make sure you unclick this toggle animation first so it's not blue and then adjust it now i'm going to go back to this and now when you adjust that it's going to adjust everything the same and you're not going to be dealing with like animated keyframes something else i want you to notice up here is you can see that the slider for dialogue and music is there but the one for sfx isn't because wherever this line is whatever clip it's hovering over on that track that's what you can adjust individually here for the clip so in order to activate this one i'd have to slide this over and then now that one's going to be there for me to move because i can adjust this clip at this point this clip and this clip right here one two three and if you notice over here as i clicked it's gonna change to my song and then click here and it's gonna go back to my dialog clip in terms of adjusting your audio track mixers over here you can adjust them right here so if i took this and i drop this down you're going to see that the number drops there but the line does not move because right now we're looking at the visual of the clip volume so i'm just going to undo and that's where this i told you to drag this line down now if we click on this we're going to get this little drop down you can see clip keyframes but now we want to go to track keyframes and we're just going to go to volume now you can see that this line actually extends just on this track it extends all the way down the track so no matter what we put on this one so if i went over here and dragged in my only right channel clip then when we adjust the volume of the track it's going to adjust the volume of every single clip in relation to what you had adjusted for volume on the individual clip as well okay so now when i slide this down you're gonna see that line is gonna drop for every single thing on this track this is something you could often use for music or sound effects if you want no matter what song you put on here if you want to change this over to track volume and just make sure that you know you're going to go i'm going to have all of my music at you know minus 20 db if for some reason you want to change the volume of your entire project or sequence you can do that as well by going down here to master and i'm just going to slide this over so you can see right here under your audio track mixer you also have a master one so whatever we change here so if i click on this and slide it to the left to bring it down you can see that this slider was moving as well so this controls the entire project all at once i just want to talk about mind control so the next part of this video i'm going to go over how to create dynamics within your audio we're really just talking about when you have a song and then you want to duck it to be quieter and then when somebody's done talking you want to bring the song back up again afterwards or if you want to fade something in or fade it out all right so the best way that i thought to show you how to do those things would be to build a quick little edit and then manipulate my audio dynamics within here to kind of fix the edit okay so here's the original edit well folks it's time to kick it old school in this video so basically all i did here was i put a random clip that has some audio then it goes to my dialog clip and then goes to another random clip at the end and i've just faded in the video at the start in the end so the first thing i'm going to want to do is adjust the song so that it ducks to be quieter when i'm talking and then comes back up to be loud for when it hits this clip so it'll be loud here and then quiet and then loud again and since i'm editing just the music clip right here i'm going to make sure i'm clicked on it so that i'll see it over here in my effect controls and i'm going to make sure that this line is dropped down so we want to drop it so we can see this keyframe thing again now if you can if you're clicked on here you should be able to go to wherever you want the audio to start dipping so i'm going to use this just step back a little bit i'm going to start it dipping about right here and i'm going to go and click a keyframe right here boom and you see it puts a little dot right there now if for some reason you can't add a keyframe here like this is grayed out then just first of all make sure you're clicked on your clip that you're going to be adjusting so this music clip then right click on it go down to show clip keyframes go over to volume and go down to level make sure that one is selected right there so that means from here until here my volume is the same at zero i'm going to scoot forward a little bit and then at this point i'm going to put a another keyframe and then i'm just going to drag this one down so i'm going to go to about you know minus 20 or so i'm going to drop it quite a bit then it's going to stay at -20 all the way until about right here and i'm going to put another keyframe and then i'm going to slide over to the next part where i want it to be back to zero so i'll put another keyframe and then i could slide this up to try and get it to zero if i want but you can see it's kind of going all over the place so i'm going to go back for a second all that i'm going to do is i'm going to go over here now to my audio clip mixer or i could go over here to my levels and i'm going to just click in here and put in 0 and that's going to put it back to 0. now if you remember when i said when you know if you're going to adjust your volume over here it's going to put in keyframes well you can see that every keyframe that we put in here is also going to show up right here in your effect controls and then you probably guessed but to fade it you do the same thing so i'm going to go to about here now i'm going to click another keyframe then i'm going to go to the end where i want the music to be kind of nothing put another keyframe and i'm just going to go here this time so you can see i'm going to click on this and just drop this all the way down so it's going to fade out my music right there you can do it at the start if you want to i wouldn't do it for this song in this case because the you know the person starts talking right away at the very start but if you were going to do it you'd obviously come in you know click your your keyframe where you want it then go to the start put in a keyframe and then you'd drop that one all the way down to fade it in another way to do simple fades and like transitions from clip to clip is actually go to your effects and then down to audio transitions under crossfade and constant power all you have to do is click that and drag it to the clip you know if it's going to be a transition drag it to the middle between the two clips on the audio side so i'm going to drag one there drag one there drag one to the very start and i'm going to drag one to the very end so these two in the middle i'm actually going to just crank down completely to nothing just slide it down so it's just a sliver that just helps it kind of blend from one clip to the next so there's not any kind of glitch in between and then these are going to be my fades at the start and at the end for you know these two clips that are bookending my dialogue so for this first one i'm going to you know the shorter you make this the quicker the transition in is going to be and the longer you make it the more gradual it's going to be so for this one i'm going to make it kind of gradual and at the end i'm going to kind of match where the fade out of the song was happening okay so now if we watch this clip again this little edit that i did you'll see the difference that ducking makes so to hear me talk and then kind of the fades here the fades here and then the fade at the end okay so here we go well folks it's time to kick it old school in this video i'm gonna go over basic audio editing in adobe premiere pro [Music] okay so i didn't actually listen to it when i was editing it so i don't know if this was too quiet or too loud but obviously if you need to adjust it now you can just click on your keyframes and drag them up if you need it louder or drag them down if you need it quieter plus if you move them left and right you can change you know what i mentioned up here of how gradual or how abrupt the change in volume happens so if you have them the keyframes really close to one another this is going to go quiet and then quickly rise up to be loud but if you drag this over and drag this over then the transition is going to go loud to slowly get to be quiet and then slowly get to be loud again and if your dialogue was too quiet you can obviously just crank this up a little bit as well or drop other things that were maybe too loud and that brings us to our final topic of this video which is the basics of how to add and manipulate audio effects in premiere pro one way to add audio effects is just to go over here to effects if you don't see it here just go to window again and go down to effects and then just click on this audio effects little drop down arrow and you'll see a whole bunch of the effects that you can add to your clips you can either drop these down to find effects in here or if you know what your effect is you can just type it up here so i'm going to search for pitch shifter so right there and then you just click on it and drag it onto the clip on the audio side that you want and then you'll notice over here on your effect controls that it will appear under your audio effects right there so here was your normal ones and then here's your new effect that you've added now for most of them when you play the clip right away now so if i play this in this video i'm going to go over basic audio there'll be nothing that is different on some of them it will but on most of them it won't so then you have to go over here and actually edit it so i'm going to click edit and all of them have some sort of window that pops up that you can you know slide things along and change them so at the start of this video i use pitch shifter to manipulate my voice so i'm going to just drop that one down like that and now when we watch it you can see that i've adjusted my voice and just so you know you can add an effect to an entire track as well by just going up to your audio track mixer clicking this little side arrow thing to get this look right here and then go to one of these little drop downs click right there and you'll get kind of these same categories that you have in your audio effects so let's say i want to go over here and click on high pass filter so i'd click that and then it would show up here now you can add other ones too so if i went in here and went to a different one let's go down to parametric equalizer then if you want to edit any of them you can click on it and then tweak some of the settings right here and then some of them you can double click and it'll bring up that same menu that you can then mess with and tweak your settings so whatever you do there is going to be applied to every single audio clip that you put on that track the other way to add audio effects to your eclipse is to go over here to the essential sound tab and then you have to identify what type of audio you're dealing with like i mentioned before so in this case i'm dealing with dialogue if you click on that you're going to get a bunch of categories here that you can mess with that are kind of preset to go along with dialogue now you can choose a general preset here so i'm going to come back to this in a second but under let's say you know clarity there'll be some options that you can mess with so you can click on let's say dynamics and you'll notice that over here a dynamics effect will be added i'm just going to get rid of pitch shifter for a second here just delete so dynamics will be added if i unclick that then it's going to be gone so if i click on it again you can still go in and manually edit like i showed you before you know this is the menu for that one or this just makes it a simplified version so if i actually i'll just show you if i click edit there and i slide this along it's going to adjust the dynamics accordingly it's kind of this kind of easy preset slider to go for dynamics and each of these categories has something different now if you click a preset up here so if i click this and for dialog i want to go with let's say podcast voice then you're going to notice within over here there's a whole bunch of effects that are added to go along with that and when we go back into let's say clarity there you're gonna see that dynamics is already checked and it has a spot eq has been selected with preset podcast voice and an amount is already preset so this is a good kind of starter way to start messing around with audio effects on your clips and just quickly if i go over to click on music here and select music as my type you're going to see that there's going to be different drop down menus that you can mess with for each one so i'm going to go over to this sound effect and click sound effects and you'll see again there's different ones than we had before and that's it that's all i have for my intro to basic audio editing in adobe premiere pro but if you check the description below you're going to find some links of some other video tutorials that are audio related as well so if you got something out of this video make sure to drop a like if you're new to the channel please consider subscribing and i'll catch you next time you

Channel: Shawn Dolinski

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Length: 26min 33sec (1593 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2021