WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.536 --> 00:00:03.625 We're in a new section of the Premiere Pro course 2 00:00:03.625 --> 00:00:06.243 and this section is all about audio. 3 00:00:06.243 --> 00:00:09.500 So we're going to learn things like adjusting audio levels, 4 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:13.091 adding audio effects, making our audio sound better 5 00:00:13.091 --> 00:00:16.307 and even adding music to our videos. 6 00:00:16.307 --> 00:00:18.780 So we're gonna walk through our project 7 00:00:18.780 --> 00:00:20.459 and the first thing we're gonna learn is how 8 00:00:20.459 --> 00:00:23.084 to change the audio levels. 9 00:00:23.084 --> 00:00:25.751 How loud or quiet your audio is, 10 00:00:27.035 --> 00:00:29.747 and there's a number of ways to do this. 11 00:00:29.747 --> 00:00:32.779 So we're going to go through all of the ones that I use, 12 00:00:32.779 --> 00:00:34.500 and sometimes I use all of 13 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:36.547 these methods in the same project. 14 00:00:36.547 --> 00:00:38.747 Because they do different things. 15 00:00:38.747 --> 00:00:42.059 So if you want to just increase or decrease the volume 16 00:00:42.059 --> 00:00:44.835 of a specific audio clip, 17 00:00:44.835 --> 00:00:49.484 say this very first clip that we have in our documentary. 18 00:00:49.484 --> 00:00:53.189 We have on our timeline, tools to do so. 19 00:00:53.189 --> 00:00:57.275 If you open up your track, your audio track, 20 00:00:57.275 --> 00:00:59.797 so that you can see you audio waveforms, 21 00:00:59.797 --> 00:01:02.627 you should see this little line in the middle. 22 00:01:02.627 --> 00:01:05.651 If you click on that little line and go down or up, 23 00:01:05.651 --> 00:01:08.558 you see these numbers pop up. 24 00:01:08.558 --> 00:01:10.019 There's a number and then dB, 25 00:01:10.019 --> 00:01:13.852 dB is decibel and that's how we measure sound. 26 00:01:15.587 --> 00:01:18.159 So going down will decrease the audio 27 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.267 and going up will increase the audio. 28 00:01:21.267 --> 00:01:23.859 Okay, so you can just literally open up your audio track, 29 00:01:23.859 --> 00:01:28.026 move your mouse over to this line and move up or down. 30 00:01:29.158 --> 00:01:32.843 We can also get in here and do a little bit more advanced 31 00:01:32.843 --> 00:01:36.451 editing, so I'm gonna zoom in here really quick. 32 00:01:36.451 --> 00:01:38.035 So say we're playing though this 33 00:01:38.035 --> 00:01:41.915 and this little peak right here, it's not that loud, 34 00:01:41.915 --> 00:01:44.109 but say we think it's too loud 35 00:01:44.109 --> 00:01:47.379 or you do have a bit of audio that actually is too loud 36 00:01:47.379 --> 00:01:50.603 and you want to lower just that piece. 37 00:01:50.603 --> 00:01:55.227 Well, you could go in here and use the razor tool 38 00:01:55.227 --> 00:01:59.811 to cut around it and then just take your mouse selector tool 39 00:01:59.811 --> 00:02:02.651 and decrease this little bit. 40 00:02:02.651 --> 00:02:04.459 But that's a little bit too much work for me, 41 00:02:04.459 --> 00:02:07.326 so I'm going to take my pen tool, 42 00:02:07.326 --> 00:02:10.243 "P" is the keyboard shortcut to get to the pen tool 43 00:02:10.243 --> 00:02:12.972 and put points on this line. 44 00:02:12.972 --> 00:02:16.427 So I can a point here, I could put a point here, 45 00:02:16.427 --> 00:02:19.699 I could a point here and I could put a point here. 46 00:02:19.699 --> 00:02:22.819 And then I could take my selection tool 47 00:02:22.819 --> 00:02:25.731 and I can decrease this middle point. 48 00:02:25.731 --> 00:02:29.898 These points act as anchors that lock the track audio 49 00:02:31.683 --> 00:02:33.195 to a specific point. 50 00:02:33.195 --> 00:02:35.563 So if you set a point then you're basically saying, 51 00:02:35.563 --> 00:02:39.019 "At this point I want my audio to be at this level." 52 00:02:39.019 --> 00:02:41.171 But you can move these points around, 53 00:02:41.171 --> 00:02:44.510 and if you have two points, you can move the bar 54 00:02:44.510 --> 00:02:48.005 in between the point up or down, 'kay. 55 00:02:48.005 --> 00:02:50.220 This is also another way that you can create 56 00:02:50.220 --> 00:02:51.693 a custom transition 57 00:02:51.693 --> 00:02:54.637 So I'm going to delete this consistent power transition 58 00:02:54.637 --> 00:02:55.897 that we added last time. 59 00:02:55.897 --> 00:02:58.066 And I'm just going to take my pen tool, 60 00:02:58.066 --> 00:03:01.514 set a point there and then take a point there. 61 00:03:01.514 --> 00:03:05.681 And now we have a completely customised audio transition. 62 00:03:07.874 --> 00:03:12.514 And I can take my selector tool and move these around. 63 00:03:12.514 --> 00:03:14.816 Holding Shift will also help you, 64 00:03:14.816 --> 00:03:17.434 because it locks it to that decibel level. 65 00:03:17.434 --> 00:03:20.681 See if I don't hold Shift, how I'm moving it left or right 66 00:03:20.681 --> 00:03:23.562 but it kind of goes up or down in decibel level. 67 00:03:23.562 --> 00:03:27.729 If I hold Shift down, it locks it to that level, zero dB. 68 00:03:29.874 --> 00:03:32.234 What if we want to increase or decrease 69 00:03:32.234 --> 00:03:34.491 all of our clips at once? 70 00:03:34.491 --> 00:03:37.962 One way is by selecting multiple clips, 71 00:03:37.962 --> 00:03:40.914 for us we're just going to select all of our audio clips, 72 00:03:40.914 --> 00:03:45.081 right-clicking them, and doing this Audio Gain effect. 73 00:03:46.065 --> 00:03:50.546 So if we click Audio Gain, we have different options. 74 00:03:50.546 --> 00:03:54.186 If we say "adjust gain by" and then we put a positive or 75 00:03:54.186 --> 00:03:58.353 negative decibel level here, say we go six, then say "okay." 76 00:03:59.634 --> 00:04:03.801 All of these clips and you just saw that the waveform, 77 00:04:04.866 --> 00:04:07.786 the actual audio of these clips, increased. 78 00:04:07.786 --> 00:04:10.730 So we're not just editing the output, 79 00:04:10.730 --> 00:04:12.914 like we did with this bar, 80 00:04:12.914 --> 00:04:16.908 we're actually editing the clip itself 81 00:04:16.908 --> 00:04:20.434 and increasing those audio waveforms by six decibels. 82 00:04:20.434 --> 00:04:22.170 So increasing that, so I'm gonna un-do that 83 00:04:22.170 --> 00:04:23.537 by pressing Command+Z. 84 00:04:23.537 --> 00:04:27.538 Control+Z is always un-do on a PC. 85 00:04:27.538 --> 00:04:32.026 Say we want to edit these a little bit more smartly. 86 00:04:32.026 --> 00:04:35.139 Smartly, intelligently, that's a better word. 87 00:04:35.139 --> 00:04:39.309 We can Select All say "Audio Gain" then let's say 88 00:04:39.309 --> 00:04:43.114 "normalise max peak" sometimes if you're working on 89 00:04:43.114 --> 00:04:46.602 a project and you're screening it at a film festival 90 00:04:46.602 --> 00:04:49.362 or if you're playing it online, they'll ask you 91 00:04:49.362 --> 00:04:53.529 "set the max peak to: negative 12 dB," or whatever it is. 92 00:04:54.778 --> 00:04:59.259 So if we want it to be negative 12 dB, we can say 93 00:04:59.259 --> 00:05:03.426 "normalise max peak to: negative 12" and then say, "okay." 94 00:05:05.749 --> 00:05:08.586 What it does is it finds the loudest point in all of these 95 00:05:08.586 --> 00:05:12.753 clips and it puts that at negative 12 and then it adjusts 96 00:05:14.626 --> 00:05:18.793 all of the other clips with the same amount of reduction. 97 00:05:22.050 --> 00:05:26.217 So if it dropped the max peak, say five decibels to get it 98 00:05:27.202 --> 00:05:30.952 to be negative 12, the output is negative 12. 99 00:05:32.130 --> 00:05:34.321 And we can see the output as negative 12 100 00:05:34.321 --> 00:05:35.906 when we watch through it. 101 00:05:35.906 --> 00:05:40.513 So here on our audio mixer, when you're watching this, 102 00:05:40.513 --> 00:05:44.562 under track two, which we haven't really gone through this, 103 00:05:44.562 --> 00:05:47.217 we will go through this in just a second, a little bit more. 104 00:05:47.217 --> 00:05:49.462 But we have our tracks. 105 00:05:49.462 --> 00:05:53.129 We have one, two, three, four and then our master track, 106 00:05:53.129 --> 00:05:55.354 which combines all of our tracks together. 107 00:05:55.354 --> 00:05:57.362 In track two where our audio is, 108 00:05:57.362 --> 00:06:00.062 you'll see this decibel level bouncing up and down. 109 00:06:00.062 --> 00:06:04.633 Negative 24, negative 17, the max one will now be 110 00:06:04.633 --> 00:06:09.401 negative 12 and the rest of them were decreased accordingly. 111 00:06:09.401 --> 00:06:12.297 Let me just un-do that and just show you the other option, 112 00:06:12.297 --> 00:06:16.153 which is, if we go to Audio Gain and we say, 113 00:06:16.153 --> 00:06:19.153 "normalise all peaks," what this will do is it will look 114 00:06:19.153 --> 00:06:23.690 at the peaks in all of these clips and it will raise 115 00:06:23.690 --> 00:06:27.107 each clip individually to be negative 12. 116 00:06:28.473 --> 00:06:31.418 And this is actually a cool tool to use. 117 00:06:31.418 --> 00:06:35.529 Say you were using multiple interviews in one piece, 118 00:06:35.529 --> 00:06:39.002 for example, if we interviewed Anthony for this documentary 119 00:06:39.002 --> 00:06:43.250 and then we interviewed his wife and his mom and his sister 120 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:45.665 and we combined it all on one video, 121 00:06:45.665 --> 00:06:47.630 but we shot on different locations, 122 00:06:47.630 --> 00:06:49.186 maybe with different cameras, 123 00:06:49.186 --> 00:06:51.220 maybe with different microphones 124 00:06:51.220 --> 00:06:54.817 and they all recorded at a little bit different levels. 125 00:06:54.817 --> 00:06:59.417 We can select all of them, every clip in the interview and 126 00:06:59.417 --> 00:07:04.289 we can say "Audio Gain, normalise all peaks to negative 10," 127 00:07:04.289 --> 00:07:07.273 or whatever it is and it will make all 128 00:07:07.273 --> 00:07:11.106 of the audio generally feel the same loudness. 129 00:07:12.289 --> 00:07:13.674 So that's a quick way to make 130 00:07:13.674 --> 00:07:16.591 all of audio sound the same levels. 131 00:07:17.617 --> 00:07:20.650 The last way that I want to talk about changing 132 00:07:20.650 --> 00:07:22.674 the levels is by track. 133 00:07:22.674 --> 00:07:26.057 And that is what this audio track mixer is good for. 134 00:07:26.057 --> 00:07:29.441 So we saw this just recently and we saw that we have our 135 00:07:29.441 --> 00:07:33.170 different tracks, we have our first track one, two, three, 136 00:07:33.170 --> 00:07:35.420 four and they have sliders. 137 00:07:36.731 --> 00:07:38.025 So I'm going to play through this 138 00:07:38.025 --> 00:07:40.273 and I'm just going to decrease this slider 139 00:07:40.273 --> 00:07:42.617 and as I do this, the levels get lower 140 00:07:42.617 --> 00:07:47.565 and lower and lower until they are completely gone. 141 00:07:47.565 --> 00:07:50.170 The reason why I would want to use this is if I have 142 00:07:50.170 --> 00:07:54.337 say, music on one track, interview audio on one track, 143 00:07:55.553 --> 00:07:59.305 background noise and effects on another track. 144 00:07:59.305 --> 00:08:03.349 Typically music is a lot louder when you put it 145 00:08:03.349 --> 00:08:05.954 on your timeline so we may want to just drop down 146 00:08:05.954 --> 00:08:09.954 the entire track level to adjust that audio mix. 147 00:08:10.970 --> 00:08:12.682 And we'll do that in a future lesson 148 00:08:12.682 --> 00:08:15.577 when we add music to our piece. 149 00:08:15.577 --> 00:08:19.121 So this is a great way to edit the track audio, 150 00:08:19.121 --> 00:08:23.288 meaning everything on this audio track will be adjusted. 151 00:08:24.225 --> 00:08:27.089 And we'll learn about audio effects but you can also add 152 00:08:27.089 --> 00:08:29.073 audio effects to an entire track. 153 00:08:29.073 --> 00:08:33.042 If you drop down this little icon right here, it has 154 00:08:33.042 --> 00:08:35.308 this little menu where we can go through 155 00:08:35.308 --> 00:08:37.290 and add audio effects. 156 00:08:37.290 --> 00:08:39.889 If we want to add "reverb" which is sort 157 00:08:39.889 --> 00:08:43.018 of that "echo-ey-ness" that you get from your audio 158 00:08:43.018 --> 00:08:46.393 when you're shooting in a room. 159 00:08:46.393 --> 00:08:49.089 Or if you want to add some filters or equalisation, 160 00:08:49.089 --> 00:08:51.501 which will improve the sound of your audio. 161 00:08:51.501 --> 00:08:54.489 We'll go through this in another future lesson, shortly. 162 00:08:54.489 --> 00:08:57.338 We can add these clips for the entire track, 163 00:08:57.338 --> 00:09:00.353 rather than having to do it through every single 164 00:09:00.353 --> 00:09:02.186 individual audio clip. 165 00:09:03.361 --> 00:09:05.409 This was a big lesson. 166 00:09:05.409 --> 00:09:07.625 Audio editing is very important though, 167 00:09:07.625 --> 00:09:11.041 because audio sometimes is more important than what's 168 00:09:11.041 --> 00:09:13.658 happening on-screen, especially when people are watching 169 00:09:13.658 --> 00:09:17.890 our videos on their little phones, or on their iPads when 170 00:09:17.890 --> 00:09:21.651 they're busy, sometimes people will just listen to the 171 00:09:21.651 --> 00:09:23.385 videos and they don't even watch it 172 00:09:23.385 --> 00:09:25.501 because they have another tab open on their computer. 173 00:09:25.501 --> 00:09:28.625 So having good audio is really important and 174 00:09:28.625 --> 00:09:30.745 now you should know how to adjust 175 00:09:30.745 --> 00:09:34.025 the audio levels of your video. 176 00:09:34.025 --> 00:09:37.425 So the action item for today is just to play around 177 00:09:37.425 --> 00:09:40.354 with the Pen tool, maybe go through the interview that 178 00:09:40.354 --> 00:09:44.251 you've edited so far and if there any peaks that are 179 00:09:44.251 --> 00:09:47.009 really loud or any parts that are really soft, 180 00:09:47.009 --> 00:09:49.729 bring those up using the pen editor. 181 00:09:49.729 --> 00:09:52.809 When I was editing this interview there are some moments 182 00:09:52.809 --> 00:09:56.298 that I had to do that with, because Anthony sometimes 183 00:09:56.298 --> 00:09:58.010 when he gets a little bit more emotional, 184 00:09:58.010 --> 00:09:59.826 he gets a little quieter, 185 00:09:59.826 --> 00:10:02.153 when he's talking about a sad thing. 186 00:10:02.153 --> 00:10:04.835 And then when he's excited and emotional, 187 00:10:04.835 --> 00:10:07.009 he gets a little bit too loud so I had to use the Pen tool 188 00:10:07.009 --> 00:10:10.361 to adjust the levels of this interview. 189 00:10:10.361 --> 00:10:12.977 Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lesson 190 00:10:12.977 --> 00:10:16.283 and continue learning about audio editing in Premiere Pro.