Perfect Audio Levels in Audition & Premiere Pro (SUPER EASY)

hey there my name is sally harrington welcome back to my youtube channel today we're talking about the process that i use for all of the dialogue audio that i edit i do a lot of youtube videos courses podcasts you name it i deal with a lot of dialogue audio and i found a really easy system that i can replicate time and time and time again using adobe audition that is perfect for both podcasts or for videos but i use the same process on every single piece of dialogue that i edit and it makes my videos sound way more consistent and make sure it sounds great no matter what platform it gets played back on okay so we're going to start in premiere and then i'm going to show you how i go into audition if you're doing just podcast you can do the straight and audition the process will be the same but let's jump into premiere and we'll go from there okay so here we are we're in premiere and this is just the r5c reaction video that i filmed last week and as you can see here we have our video track and the just the camera audio here and then this green track down here this is the track from the road caster pro and from the sm7b so this is the audio we're going to want to use so we're going to select this one right click uh edit clip in adobe audition and we will just wait it takes a second it's going to render and replace one little disclaimer i want to give is that i am not by any means an audio professional i am not a master of audio and that's why i really love this system because i know enough about audio to get by but i'm definitely not like a master audio engineer or anything like that so this system i like because it gives me really consistent results and it sounds good or great every single time without having to do a ton of work to the audio and without having to know all the ins and outs now is there more that you can do to the audio to sweeten it up even more yes of course but this process is super easy and super simple for somebody who just needs to have really consistent correct audio levels okay so here we are in adobe audition and as you can see this audio was recorded in kind of the traditional way that you're taught peaking around negative 12 which is just sort of the safest way to record your audio so you don't have to worry about peaking and you have great dynamic range in post this is great however if you just were to have just this for your final audio it wouldn't sound very loud it wouldn't be the correct volume so here's what we're going to do first thing we're going to do is i actually have this saved out as a preset so i recommend doing this if you um set this so i actually have here it is right here so i only have two things i have a tube modeled compressor and a hard limiter so if you go into the two model compressor i use these settings i set my threshold to negative 12 i output gain to zero in my ratio to three to one i don't like to add output gain here because i'm going to do another step next that basically i feel like replaces that so don't worry about that and all you need to know about this if you don't know anything about what this compressor is going to do anything that's above negative 12 it's going to crush it down push it down towards negative 12. anything below negative 12 it's going to bring it up so it's kind of kind of you know push down your highest highs bring up your lowest lows and kind of meet somewhere in the middle i like negative 12 again that's kind of where my aim to record is in that general area sometimes a little bit above sometimes a little bit below this just kind of helps to level it out so that you don't have such um such a stark difference between like your loudest points and your softest points so we'll run that and then i also have a limiter in here just in case for some reason um the audio is peaking if i'm recording it myself normally i don't have to worry about that sometimes i do use audio from other sources that i didn't record myself and sometimes it's kind of close to peaking so i like to put that on just you know just to be safe so we'll go ahead and apply this and it's probably not going to do a ton for this but there you go the next thing now this is the big trick right here again this isn't like rocket science or anything people but this is just what i do i'm sharing with you what it is that i do um we're going to go over here to match loudness if yours isn't showing up here you can just go up to window match loudness here it is so all you have to do it's super simple we take the audio clip we want we drag it into this section right here i use the itu-rbs 1770-3 loudness setting the reason i do that is because it allows me to add a target of love so luff's stands for loudness unit full scale the way i think of it it's just sort of like the standard level at which you are setting your audio levels and these are can be established across different platforms so you know broadcast has their own set and podcasts and those types of things i like to set mine to negative 18. but what's nice is that i don't have to mess with really any of this stuff i just set this to negative 18 um and then i hit run so you hit run it's going to take a few seconds it's going to analyze it's going to match if you have if you want you put multiple tracks in here and it'll match them together but basically what it's going to do is it's going to make sure that the volume of the entire track is negative 18 loves based off of whatever their metrics are again i don't know and i don't really need to know and that's the beauty of this system i just go ahead and save that off beautiful okay when so then when i close this out and i go over to back to premiere now you can see that it has replaced automatically my old audio track with this one that we just edited and as you can see we have very consistent levels all the way across the board and it is going to sound really good so when i play that back which you probably won't be able to hear but you can see my audio levels over here you can see that we are you know hitting right around negative 3 with our peaking and everything is going to sound really great really consistent and it's the appropriate level again the reason why this is important is because when you get this into you post it to youtube and somebody's listening on their phone or maybe they watch it on their tv or their ipad or whatever you want to make sure that your volume of your video matches or is consistent with all the other videos that they're watching because there's nothing worse you've probably experienced this than watching a youtube video having your volume of your headphones or whatever set to a specific volume then the next video comes up and it's really really quiet so you turn it way way up so you can hear them and sure it's still it could still sound great but you've got to turn the volume all the way up to able to hear them and then the next video plays that's maybe the correct volume and it's blasting it's way too loud it's it's blowing your eardrums out right you don't want to be the really quiet video so by doing this i know that all of my audio is always going to be set to the appropriate levels you know negative 18. again you can experiment with different numbers and that's the beauty of it if you go back into audition you just go over here and you can change this to whatever you want so if you're publishing for broadcast you can go ahead and put this in there if it's just a podcast you can look up what the recommended loves are for your podcast host or player or whatever and you can change it to that but um it works this also works really well for podcast if you have two people that record it at different you know different mics different recorders maybe they're like very different in terms of just their their gain and their volume of their of their tracks they have different sounding recordings throw them in there it will match them together so that they sound really really cohesive it's a really simple really foolproof system that i use on everything that i do and then from here once you're back in premiere you can add and remove and adjust any of the audio effects that you might want to do i would prefer to do this sometimes in premiere because sometimes i might want to tweak something or maybe to adjust if i'm going to eq it or do noise reduction or whatever i found it just to be easier just to do it using the features in premiere just because i can just edit them right here without having to go back to audition but this match loudness feature is only in audition so that's why i think it's worth it to go into audition just to do the match loudness thing and then do any other effects and eq and whatever in premiere alright so you guys have it that is my system that i use for every piece of dialogue that i edit again it's nothing super crazy there's definitely more that you can do if you wanted to but in terms of just getting really consistent audio that you know is always going to sound great on any device this is my system if you found this helpful please consider liking and subscribing down below i would really really appreciate it if you want to see more videos like this or you have any other questions please leave a comment down below i'd love to answer it either in the comments or in another another video thank you so much for watching see you next time bye

Channel: Tyler Herrinton

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 28 2022