WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.588 --> 00:00:01.642 Let's look at another way to 2 00:00:01.642 --> 00:00:05.809 make your audio sound better with Adobe Premiere Pro. 3 00:00:06.770 --> 00:00:10.332 Back in our Effects tab, under Audio Effects, 4 00:00:10.332 --> 00:00:13.883 is an EQ effect, called equalisation. 5 00:00:13.883 --> 00:00:16.412 Drag this onto any of your clips, and you'll see 6 00:00:16.412 --> 00:00:20.076 that a new effect with a custom setup button 7 00:00:20.076 --> 00:00:23.039 pops up in your Effects, and say Edit, 8 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:24.988 we're going to click that Edit. 9 00:00:24.988 --> 00:00:29.077 A new window pops up and this has all kinds of dials 10 00:00:29.077 --> 00:00:32.902 and things that, if you were a Pro sound guy or girl 11 00:00:32.902 --> 00:00:35.965 and you played with sound boards, you might understand 12 00:00:35.965 --> 00:00:37.360 what this means, but for a lot of you, 13 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:38.949 you will not know what that means 14 00:00:38.949 --> 00:00:41.424 and so I'm going to walk you through. 15 00:00:41.424 --> 00:00:42.364 So to understand what's going on, 16 00:00:42.364 --> 00:00:45.149 we have some different presets. 17 00:00:45.149 --> 00:00:49.005 Right now it's set to Default, let's switch it to Master eq. 18 00:00:49.005 --> 00:00:51.092 What that does is it basically just checks 19 00:00:51.092 --> 00:00:53.086 all of these boxes right here. 20 00:00:53.086 --> 00:00:54.732 If we don't want to do that, we can just go 21 00:00:54.732 --> 00:00:58.484 from Default and check all of these boxes. 22 00:00:58.484 --> 00:01:00.990 As we do that, you can see that these different points 23 00:01:00.990 --> 00:01:04.718 were added to this graph right here. 24 00:01:04.718 --> 00:01:07.016 On the left we have the level, the decibels, 25 00:01:07.016 --> 00:01:10.483 the level of the audio, how loud it is. 26 00:01:10.483 --> 00:01:14.650 On the bottom we have the Hertz, or the frequencies. 27 00:01:15.787 --> 00:01:16.836 So on the left we have the lows 28 00:01:16.836 --> 00:01:19.332 and on the right we have the highs. 29 00:01:19.332 --> 00:01:21.822 Don't pay attention to anything down here right now, 30 00:01:21.822 --> 00:01:24.692 let's just look at the graph first, 31 00:01:24.692 --> 00:01:27.044 because you can control everything 32 00:01:27.044 --> 00:01:30.749 right in this graph by clicking on these points 33 00:01:30.749 --> 00:01:34.416 and moving them down or up or left or right. 34 00:01:36.155 --> 00:01:38.277 If we move this point up, what's happening is 35 00:01:38.277 --> 00:01:41.500 the level of these frequencies 36 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:44.539 right here are going to be louder. 37 00:01:44.539 --> 00:01:48.101 If we move it down, these frequencies are lower. 38 00:01:48.101 --> 00:01:50.540 And if we move to the right, it's editing 39 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:54.707 all of the frequencies to the left and around 88 Hertz, 40 00:01:55.916 --> 00:01:58.165 which you can see change right here, 41 00:01:58.165 --> 00:02:01.820 so do pay attention to that bottom dial right there. 42 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:04.348 But it does it in a different way than our Highpass 43 00:02:04.348 --> 00:02:07.444 or Lowpass filters that we added last time. 44 00:02:07.444 --> 00:02:10.620 The Highpass and Lowpass, it's a specific cut off point, 45 00:02:10.620 --> 00:02:14.787 it's 100 and below and everything above 100 is free to go. 46 00:02:16.235 --> 00:02:19.027 For here, it's more of a, you see this, 47 00:02:19.027 --> 00:02:22.913 it's not a linear curve, it's a curved graph. 48 00:02:22.913 --> 00:02:25.748 And so it sounds a little bit more natural than just 49 00:02:25.748 --> 00:02:29.665 cutting it off at 50 or 100 or 200 or whatever. 50 00:02:30.676 --> 00:02:33.683 So, the reason we would use this graph 51 00:02:33.683 --> 00:02:37.644 or this effect, is to warm up our audio, 52 00:02:37.644 --> 00:02:40.363 to make it feel like it has more presence. 53 00:02:40.363 --> 00:02:43.718 And it's kind of hard to explain what that means like, 54 00:02:43.718 --> 00:02:46.716 but you want your audio to sound full. 55 00:02:46.716 --> 00:02:49.195 And sometimes when you're recording with your camera 56 00:02:49.195 --> 00:02:51.723 and your microphone, it just doesn't sound full, 57 00:02:51.723 --> 00:02:54.068 it doesn't sound like you're sitting there with that person 58 00:02:54.068 --> 00:02:57.764 and you're hearing all of their voice. 59 00:02:57.764 --> 00:03:00.021 So we can play around with some of these levels, 60 00:03:00.021 --> 00:03:04.188 especially the lower levels, between 200 and 1,000 K. 61 00:03:05.926 --> 00:03:08.414 Just by increasing those, that can make 62 00:03:08.414 --> 00:03:11.868 the audio sound a little bit better. 63 00:03:11.868 --> 00:03:13.463 You see, as I increase this one, 64 00:03:13.463 --> 00:03:16.621 we have sort of a small peak right here. 65 00:03:16.621 --> 00:03:20.788 So it's affecting those frequencies right around 200 most, 66 00:03:21.700 --> 00:03:25.603 but then once we get up to 500 or down to 100, 67 00:03:25.603 --> 00:03:28.102 it's not really affecting those as much. 68 00:03:28.102 --> 00:03:31.436 We can make it affect a wider range of frequencies 69 00:03:31.436 --> 00:03:34.548 by clicking on these small dots to the left or right 70 00:03:34.548 --> 00:03:37.381 and dragging to the left or right. 71 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.478 You see that the hill becomes bigger, 72 00:03:41.478 --> 00:03:44.739 that means it's affecting more frequencies. 73 00:03:44.739 --> 00:03:47.044 And the reason why we have this is say you want to edit 74 00:03:47.044 --> 00:03:49.961 a very specific set of frequencies. 75 00:03:51.125 --> 00:03:54.405 Maybe you have an air conditioner on 76 00:03:54.405 --> 00:03:56.912 and it's making a really loud noise 77 00:03:56.912 --> 00:04:00.995 right around 5,000, the 5,000 Hertz, you can edit 78 00:04:03.046 --> 00:04:07.156 just a very small amount, with a small gap, 79 00:04:07.156 --> 00:04:11.067 something like that at a very specific frequency. 80 00:04:11.067 --> 00:04:12.803 Most of us, we're not going to be doing that, 81 00:04:12.803 --> 00:04:15.315 but it is there for those of you who have 82 00:04:15.315 --> 00:04:19.356 some more professional editing that you want to do. 83 00:04:19.356 --> 00:04:21.494 In general, I just boost some of these 84 00:04:21.494 --> 00:04:24.655 and then maybe I take the ones up here, 85 00:04:24.655 --> 00:04:27.923 and on the left and right down. 86 00:04:27.923 --> 00:04:30.526 Know though that if we already have the Lowpass on, 87 00:04:30.526 --> 00:04:33.876 anything above 5,500 is already cut off. 88 00:04:33.876 --> 00:04:35.403 So editing these ones over here 89 00:04:35.403 --> 00:04:38.420 on the right hand side, it's redundant. 90 00:04:38.420 --> 00:04:39.419 But if you don't have the Lowpass 91 00:04:39.419 --> 00:04:43.238 or the Highpass filters on, then dropping down 92 00:04:43.238 --> 00:04:45.644 some of these high frequencies and some of these 93 00:04:45.644 --> 00:04:50.084 low frequencies over here might be a good thing. 94 00:04:50.084 --> 00:04:53.004 Finally, you can pay attention to these dials. 95 00:04:53.004 --> 00:04:54.396 These are just another way to control 96 00:04:54.396 --> 00:04:56.468 what's going on up here. 97 00:04:56.468 --> 00:05:00.011 I think it's easier to just click and move around up here, 98 00:05:00.011 --> 00:05:02.763 but you can adjust them down here. 99 00:05:02.763 --> 00:05:05.440 So if we want to adjust the Gain, we can adjust 100 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:07.356 the Gain of all of these different points 101 00:05:07.356 --> 00:05:10.484 by clicking and dragging to the left or right. 102 00:05:10.484 --> 00:05:13.437 This first row is the Frequency. 103 00:05:13.437 --> 00:05:17.604 And the last one is that, basically the width of the graph, 104 00:05:18.485 --> 00:05:22.402 how much is it affecting around that frequency. 105 00:05:23.843 --> 00:05:28.484 We can also change these first points to a Cut. 106 00:05:28.484 --> 00:05:30.483 So if we don't want to add the Lowpass 107 00:05:30.483 --> 00:05:33.139 and the Highpass filters, we can just cut out 108 00:05:33.139 --> 00:05:36.056 all the frequencies below 36 Hertz, 109 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.300 or we can move this up to 100, 110 00:05:41.812 --> 00:05:44.102 and this one down to 5,500 or whatever 111 00:05:44.102 --> 00:05:47.287 we want, just with this EQ effect. 112 00:05:47.287 --> 00:05:50.539 There's also this Output Gain. 113 00:05:50.539 --> 00:05:52.959 This will increase or decrease the audio for 114 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.376 the entire clip, with these same effects. 115 00:05:57.972 --> 00:06:01.472 So say we increase the middle frequencies, 116 00:06:03.027 --> 00:06:05.382 but that makes it a little bit too loud, 117 00:06:05.382 --> 00:06:09.549 we can then compensate by adjusting the Output just a bit. 118 00:06:10.539 --> 00:06:11.861 There's also some Defaults that 119 00:06:11.861 --> 00:06:13.917 you want to pay attention to. 120 00:06:13.917 --> 00:06:17.069 These sometimes work for me, Warm presence is one 121 00:06:17.069 --> 00:06:21.187 that might work a little bit more than the others. 122 00:06:21.187 --> 00:06:23.292 Play around with the 1940_s, that one 123 00:06:23.292 --> 00:06:26.068 sounds like an old 1940s radio, 124 00:06:26.068 --> 00:06:29.142 they are some cool presets to use. 125 00:06:29.142 --> 00:06:30.518 And while you're editing, you want to 126 00:06:30.518 --> 00:06:32.228 make sure that you're monitoring. 127 00:06:32.228 --> 00:06:36.117 So, whatever you're doing up here, will affect how it sounds 128 00:06:36.117 --> 00:06:38.741 when you play through this clip. 129 00:06:38.741 --> 00:06:40.095 But once you're past this clip, 130 00:06:40.095 --> 00:06:43.316 it's not going to affect this clip anymore, 131 00:06:43.316 --> 00:06:47.917 because this EQ effect is just on this clip right here. 132 00:06:47.917 --> 00:06:48.750 When you're done, just click that 133 00:06:48.750 --> 00:06:51.083 red X and you're good to go. 134 00:06:52.196 --> 00:06:54.870 If you want though you can easily copy and paste 135 00:06:54.870 --> 00:06:58.462 any of these effects to any of these other clips. 136 00:06:58.462 --> 00:07:02.093 So, if you edit this first clip with EQ, 137 00:07:02.093 --> 00:07:03.756 you probably want to do the same thing 138 00:07:03.756 --> 00:07:05.820 for the rest of these clips. 139 00:07:05.820 --> 00:07:09.012 So, you can just select that effect from this clip, 140 00:07:09.012 --> 00:07:11.806 copy it by pressing cmd c on your keyboard, 141 00:07:11.806 --> 00:07:13.672 and then selecting any of the other clips 142 00:07:13.672 --> 00:07:16.661 you want to add it to, and press paste, 143 00:07:16.661 --> 00:07:19.328 cmd v, ctrl v if you're on a PC. 144 00:07:20.277 --> 00:07:23.276 And now if I go to a specific clip over here, 145 00:07:23.276 --> 00:07:25.776 you have this EQ effect added. 146 00:07:26.644 --> 00:07:28.835 And you can do that with any of these effects. 147 00:07:28.835 --> 00:07:30.315 I'm undoing it right now, but you can do it 148 00:07:30.315 --> 00:07:33.391 with the Highpass, Lowpass, any of them. 149 00:07:33.391 --> 00:07:35.124 And next we're going to look at this, 150 00:07:35.124 --> 00:07:37.632 and how you do it to an entire track, 151 00:07:37.632 --> 00:07:41.005 using the Audio Track Mixer, in the next video.