There's A Hidden Adobe Premiere Feature?!

[Music] ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome back my name is not ian sans this of course is learn how to edit stuff and today i'm going to show you a super secret hidden feature inside of adobe premiere that you probably didn't know existed just kidding it's existed this whole time it's a catchy title i clickbaited you into it we are going to be looking at the essential sound panel today inside of adobe premiere which is going to help you level up your audio mixing game and give you a bunch of time saving tips and if you've never heard of the essential sound panel in adobe premiere i'm excited for you today's gonna be a very exciting lesson well i'm certainly excited i know you're excited too i think i hope you're excited to open up adobe premiere because we are getting started right now all right i've got premiere open and down on my timeline i've got a clip that i want to play for you which is going to explain some things now let's say that you wanted to put music underneath this interview and you wanted the music to come up in all the silent parts what would you do okay to answer that question what you would do if you've never used the essential sound panel before is you would come down here you drag in your music track you would come down here zoom in and then you would start setting a bunch of keyframes like this manually with the pen tool and you would come in here right you'd do this a bunch of times then you'd come in here and you kind of like lower it or raise it and then you lower it where you're talking but then raise it where you're not talking and then it gets confusing because there's so many keep right and then if you have to move all this stuff it's just annoying okay what we're doing right now is called ducking right you are ducking the music underneath the dialogue and somebody asked me in a youtube comment recently like how do i do this better right and there are tools inside of adobe premiere that let you automate this process and using the essential sound panel which can do much more than just automate ducking this is how i would recommend doing it because it's great and it's easy and it saves a bunch of time so instead of doing it the manual way i'm going to undo all this nonsense because we don't want to deal with this i'm going to come up here to window and i'm going to click on essential sound now you may have never seen this before because you might not be checking out the window menu and you would think if i came up to the audio workspace that i would see the essential sound panel somewhere over here no no you don't so you have to come over here to window and you have to open up essential sound which will open it up on the right hand side over here and now we have to do a couple things right mainly assign our tracks what they are in more complicated projects you might have like layers and layers of sound effects multiple music tracks but for this example just one dialogue track one music track so with my music track selected i'm going to assign it the music tag boop and then my dialog i'm going to assign it the dialog tag boop and you see a bunch of options come up here we're going to cover that in just a minute but let's click back on our music and let's go through what we've got here right loudness by default is checked and if i click on loudness it'll kind of bring down this little menu and it says not matched auto match and if you hover over auto match it says automatically match the clips to a standard average of loudness for music so you see how fat my waveform is let's listen to it now let's say okay completely unmanageable but if we click on auto match it will actually lower the volume of my music track to a standard average of loudness for music and now now let's say that you wanted to put music much more manageable and i didn't have to do anything other than assign the music track the music label dialogue dialogue label and now we can start to work inside the essential sound panel in a more meaningful way that doesn't involve manually adding keyframes and adjusting things and getting confused which is fantastic so let's move on uh this one right underneath loudness duration is actually pretty cool i wish it worked a little bit better but basically if i put the checkbox on it says that my you know music track right now is 15 seconds and 20 frames and if i'm working on a video for social media i need that music track to be exactly 15 seconds so i can come in here and just set it to 15 seconds and it will automatically shorten the duration of my track not getting rid of it not cutting it in any way to be exactly 15 seconds now i don't like this because if we listen to it it kind of adds in like this weird artifacting i think it's basing the amount of time on like your pitch so like the pitch is slightly adjusted there's like artifacting in it but the concept is really cool and if your song is close enough you can use this to get it to be exactly 15 seconds the average pure the app the average person probably wouldn't notice but i am not the average person so i think that this can be improved a little bit so adobe if you're watching this video please improve that function because it's really cool it could almost be incredible but the artifacts and everything not a huge fan of but i don't really use that one too much so i'm going to undo that and go back to my original uh length of my music track but the thing i do use is the ducking feature so if we click the little check box and we hover over this it says duck against dialog clips and it is automatically set to duck against dialog and since we've already assigned our dialog the dialog label this should be fun and this works based on keyframes that are automatically generated based on sensitivity the amount that you want to duck your music and the uh length of the fades that you want to put in between so this is nice because we have large open spaces of silence and if i click on generate keyframes just with the default values you'll see that it kind of like lowers the entire uh music track here and then kind of comes up here at the end which is not what i want i want to put all of those little ramps in between all of these so now we can just start messing with the sensitivity and the fades so i'm going to bring the sensitivity down to i don't know let's say three and a half and we'll bring the fade amount down to 300 milliseconds and let's click generate keyframes okay now we're getting somewhere now you see that it is lowering and then raising and then lowering and then raising in between all of the silent parts and you can kind of just keep playing with these faders and it will kind of you know move according to the settings that you're putting in here and all you have to do is just auto generate keyframes every single time which is extremely convenient because if i had more interview or i wanted to add more to my timeline and let's just say i duplicated this for the sake of this example making sure that this is also set to dialogue which it is you could also clear the audio type and reset it to something different if you wanted to but now i can just come in here with my parameters that i've already kind of figured out click generate keyframes and it'll do it for the rest so i can keep adding things to my timeline and just keep auto generating those keyframes and it's going to automate all of that annoying work for me so let's take a listen now let's say that you wanted to put music underneath this interview and you wanted the music to come up in all the silent parts bravo that saves that saves so much time let's be real okay if you're working on documentaries or interview driven pieces or anything like that this is going to save you a lot of time and it is great so if you've never used the essential sound panel before and i'm the first to show you drop a thumbs up on this video drop a comment in the comment section below subscribe to my channel you know any one of those things will make me a happy camper and your audio is going to be sounding better with this hidden feature inside of adobe premiere which is not hidden it's been there the whole time but maybe you didn't know about it so congratulations we're doing things today learn how to add stuff but if you remember when we clicked on our dialogue there is a bunch of other stuff that you can do here to your dialogue within the essential sound panel to affect your actual dialogue track here if i solo this now let's say that you want the mic was a little noisy it was actually too close to my computer monitor which makes it kind of buzz a little bit kind of annoying but we can fix that by simply turning on the reduce noise checkbox and then lowering this to a reasonable amount because if it's really high let's put it all the way up so you can hear what it sounds like that you wanted to put music underneath this interview okay wait it sounds like everything's like low pass but if i bring it down here to a reasonable amount maybe let's say one that you wanted to put music underneath this interview sounding a lot better the noise from the microphone has gone away and now my voice is a little bit more clear and if we go down the list here i can reduce rumble i can de-hum i can d s with if things are too see on your video you can de-ess it you can reduce reverb you can add dynamics which is basically compression and every time you check a box here in the essential sound panel if we go over to effect controls look look what happens over here every time i click one of these boxes it adds an audio effect automatically that is controlled by all of these sliders which is very very convenient especially if you don't know what any of these things are right so let's uncheck all of these and you can you know play around with this to your heart's content i really like reduced noise i really like the clarity uh dynamics one so you have natural or you have focused and basically it's the level of compression so all the way down at zero this is what it sounds like that you wanted to put music underneath this interview okay and all the way up crank to the other side at 10. that you wanted to put music underneath obviously you'd never go all the way to 10 but you can control the compression and the loudness of the dialogue a little bit with that slider which is fantastic it's easy and if you don't know anything about compression or eq'ing or de-essing or de-reverbing if you don't know anything about that this makes it so simple for you to understand because it's just some sliders and i would recommend to play with all of those sliders based on the media that you are working with what we're doing here is not going to be the same for you but go ahead and play around speaking of playing around there are some really fun uh eq presets right so if we click on eq and you can see the preset is set to background voice where it's kind of lopping off a lot of the high frequencies in an equalizer here but if i come down here and i go to intercom it kind of shows you what the eq curve looks like and now if we play this that you wanted to put music underneath this interview it sounds like i'm coming out of an intercom who knew that the intercom preset would make it sound like okay anyway so there's a lot of uh really great uh presets that you can kind of start off with your podcast voice will kind of boost those mid and high frequencies to give you a little bit more crispness to your vocals let's listen to that that you wanted to put music underneath this interview and if you crank the amount uh you see the eq curve kind of adjusting there visually underneath that you can enhance the speech you can add some reverb let's do that and let's go uh auditorium right and crank it all the way up [Music] okay it sounds like i'm underwater in a submarine but you get the point right so whether you have sound effects or dialogue or music drop them onto your timeline keep your tracks organized by the way keep your music tracks on one track or two tracks don't make it all over the place you don't want music track on track one and then track five and then track six it gets really messy but with the essential sound panel you can assign all of those things different characteristics and then duck things and kind of manipulate things based on the tags and the characteristics of that audio and you can add a bunch of effects and control it with a single slider in the essential sound panel that you otherwise wouldn't have access to if you were just dropping those audio effects onto your audio track itself and it becomes a little less confusing for example if i click on edit under this dynamics processing it gives you this s-curve here and a lot of people don't actually know what this is but it's really nice because i can actually just adjust everything here with a single slider and it'll tell you down here the compression ratio and all of that stuff where it's expanding and compressing and the different ratios associated to it so it's really nice that this is just linked and you don't have to know an astronomical amount about audio engineering or anything like that because it kind of makes it easy to use in a one-stop shop so that being said if you've never used the essential sound panel before congratulations you've just learned a new skill and leveled up your xp in adobe premiere very proud of you also thumbs up drop a comment subscribe to my channel because i showed you this thing if you already knew about it maybe you learned something new maybe you watch my video and you're like hey i didn't know about that specific feature in the essential sound panel well either way as long as you're here and watching my face and listening to me talk about editing that's really all that matters you know and what else matters is uh you definitely please drop a comment and a thumbs up drop a comment and a thumbs up and subscribe because it makes the youtube algorithm happy and i like it when the youtube algorithm is happy there are links in the video description below which will take you to a bunch of stuff you can follow me on social media you can go to dropbox and download other assets that i've given out in the past it will take you to you know ae juice and epidemic sound and envato elements and all of the great stuff that i use every single day when i create videos in the post-production world all of that stuff is down in the video description below i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for watching this video and i apologize about the click baity title but hey you know it's hard out here these days and we just gotta get them clicks so thank you for commenting and dropping a thumbs up and subscribing and i will see you in the next one [Music] you

Channel: Learn How To Edit Stuff

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 24 2021