Premiere Pro: Importing and Adjusting Audio

• Audio-visual communication is an effective mode of communication.
• Sound enhances contact by intensifying the audience's knowledge of their sight and hearing.
• Sound is used to engage, detailing, reinforcing, highlighting, explaining, and building excitement in the audience.
• Presenters using audio-visual create better-prepared and more convincing audiences.

Importing Audio in Adobe Premiere Pro

• Navigate to the audio file: Double-click the Project panel
• Select the desired music/audio: Navigate the folder to the music is stored

Adding Audio to Sequence

• Double-click the imported audio file to open the Source panel and view the waveform.
• Drag the audio clip to the sequence within the Timeline panel, placing it on any audio track below the video tracks.

Adjusting Audio Track Volume

• Press the spacebar to play or stop the sequence playback in the Program panel( upper right panel).
• Drag the blue playhead
• Adjust individual track volume: Choose Window>Audio Track Mixer>[sequence name] for the track mixer.
• Playback controls: Bottom of Audio Track Mixer to play, stop, loop.
• Adjust volume: Move sliders up/down for each track and use the Master control for overall level
• Note: Keep audio levels in the -6 to -3 dB range.
• Alternatively, adjust volume by clicking on the effects control.

Applying Different Audio Effects

Audio Swells

• Audio swells are transition sound effects that build emotion, tension, or surprise.
• Use music or sound effects to create swells. To create audio swells:
  • Drag the audio clip into the timeline, reverse the sound.
  • Right-click to select "Speed/Duration," then hit “Reverse”
  • Add atmosphere: Include music/sound effects, and make sound more ominous.
  • Find the "Pitch Shifter" in the Effects panel to manipulate the sound.

Ring Out Effect

• This can be applied to music, dialogue, or sound effects.
• Adding reverb can end songs faster or create drama
  • Get the effect: Click "Effects," choose "Surround Reverb," drag to the timeline.
  • Isolate audio clip: Choose where the ring out occurs, then extend as needed.

Pitch Shifting

• Pitch Shifting is when you alter a selected voice within an audio clip in order to produce a higher or lower pitch of voice.
  • First isolate desired area: Select with the razor tool.
  • Find "Pitch Shifter” in the Effects Panel
  • Apply the effect
  • Go to Effect Controls to manipulate settings with a preset
  • Alternatively, you can adjust the existing settings.

Whoosh Transition Sound Effect

• This is a sound aligned with a cut for excellent transitions.
  • To execute: Download a “whoosh" effect (Epidemic Sound), import, drag into your sequence, and align with the cut.

Underwater Muffled Sound Effect

• You can alter sound when the scene is above and below water to create the effect of sound under water
  • Apply a lowpass filter: Can be found in the Effects Panel.
  • Create keyframes around the desired points above and below water and adjust the cut off to allow for more or less distortion.
  • Lower cut off underwater: Use a higher cut off above water

Device Audio Effect (Sound from TV, Radio, Intercom)

• This effect is editing sound to replicate sound from devices.
  • In Effects Panel scroll to Essential Sound
  • In Dialogue, Music, & Sound Effect Drop down menu, explore presets.
  • Click Dialogue, choose “From TV” / “From Radio” and adjust.