Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth

Andrew Devis

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Good audio is a very important part of great video. In this tutorial, learn how to edit your audio in Premiere Pro and Soundbooth. You will learn how to use keyframes to adjust individual parts of your audio and then how to adjust the audio of whole clips in Soundbooth. See also the upcoming video on balancing or matching the audio of multiple clips for a more professional production.

This tutorial is also available as a podcast.

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Re: Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth
by Andrew Devis

Hi Al, thanks for you comment, you are right of course, but the problem with tutorials is that you can only show so much at a time without making them very very long! My aim is to show specific techniques and try to keep the tutorials bite-sized in length. I hope in due course to be adding a few more audio technique type tutorials to the PP section ... but it may take a while ...

Thanks again
Andrew

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Re: Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth
by Al Di Marzio

Hi Andrew, I love your tutorial and recently used it with great pleasure on a project.

However, if I might add that the maximum volume increase using PPro key frames is 6db. If a person needed more volume they could right click on the clip and select Audio Levels and increase the whole clip volume, then use key frames to reduce/adjust as needed.

Also another thought. Normalization also increases the noise as well as the desired audio. In some cases I employ a limiter to reduce the peaky signals without increasing the noise level.

Aldimar Video Productions

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Re: Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth
by Andrew Devis

You are welcome and I am really pleased to hear that they are proving useful to you :o) I am planning to do some more on Soundbooth and some on Audition in the future - so any ideas of what to cover first would be welcome.

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Re: Audio Editing Basics for Premiere Pro & Soundbooth
by Alex Damon

These audio and music tutorials are awesome! Audio is the weakest part of my game right now, and these are helping me a lot! Thanks!

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