Instructor: Let's look at another way to
make your audio sound better with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Back in our Effects tab, under Audio Effects,
is an EQ effect, called equalisation.
Drag this onto any of your clips, and you'll see
that a new effect with a custom setup button
pops up in your Effects, and say Edit,
we're going to click that Edit.
A new window pops up and this has all kinds of dials
and things that, if you were a Pro sound guy or girl
and you played with sound boards, you might understand
what this means, but for a lot of you,
you will not know what that means
and so I'm going to walk you through.
So to understand what's going on,
we have some different presets.
Right now it's set to Default, let's switch it to Master eq.
What that does is it basically just checks
all of these boxes right here.
If we don't want to do that, we can just go
from Default and check all of these boxes.
As we do that, you can see that these different points
were added to this graph right here.
On the left we have the level, the decibels,
the level of the audio, how loud it is.
On the bottom we have the Hertz, or the frequencies.
So on the left we have the lows
and on the right we have the highs.
Don't pay attention to anything down here right now,
let's just look at the graph first,
because you can control everything
right in this graph by clicking on these points
and moving them down or up or left or right.
If we move this point up, what's happening is
the level of these frequencies
right here are going to be louder.
If we move it down, these frequencies are lower.
And if we move to the right, it's editing
all of the frequencies to the left and around 88 Hertz,
which you can see change right here,
so do pay attention to that bottom dial right there.
But it does it in a different way than our Highpass
or Lowpass filters that we added last time.
The Highpass and Lowpass, it's a specific cut off point,
it's 100 and below and everything above 100 is free to go.
For here, it's more of a, you see this,
it's not a linear curve, it's a curved graph.
And so it sounds a little bit more natural than just
cutting it off at 50 or 100 or 200 or whatever.
So, the reason we would use this graph
or this effect, is to warm up our audio,
to make it feel like it has more presence.
And it's kind of hard to explain what that means like,
but you want your audio to sound full.
And sometimes when you're recording with your camera
and your microphone, it just doesn't sound full,
it doesn't sound like you're sitting there with that person
and you're hearing all of their voice.
So we can play around with some of these levels,
especially the lower levels, between 200 and 1,000 K.
Just by increasing those, that can make
the audio sound a little bit better.
You see, as I increase this one,
we have sort of a small peak right here.
So it's affecting those frequencies right around 200 most,
but then once we get up to 500 or down to 100,
it's not really affecting those as much.
We can make it affect a wider range of frequencies
by clicking on these small dots to the left or right
and dragging to the left or right.
You see that the hill becomes bigger,
that means it's affecting more frequencies.
And the reason why we have this is say you want to edit
a very specific set of frequencies.
Maybe you have an air conditioner on
and it's making a really loud noise
right around 5,000, the 5,000 Hertz, you can edit
just a very small amount, with a small gap,
something like that at a very specific frequency.
Most of us, we're not going to be doing that,
but it is there for those of you who have
some more professional editing that you want to do.
In general, I just boost some of these
and then maybe I take the ones up here,
and on the left and right down.
Know though that if we already have the Lowpass on,
anything above 5,500 is already cut off.
So editing these ones over here
on the right hand side, it's redundant.
But if you don't have the Lowpass
or the Highpass filters on, then dropping down
some of these high frequencies and some of these
low frequencies over here might be a good thing.
Finally, you can pay attention to these dials.
These are just another way to control
what's going on up here.
I think it's easier to just click and move around up here,
but you can adjust them down here.
So if we want to adjust the Gain, we can adjust
the Gain of all of these different points
by clicking and dragging to the left or right.
This first row is the Frequency.
And the last one is that, basically the width of the graph,
how much is it affecting around that frequency.
We can also change these first points to a Cut.
So if we don't want to add the Lowpass
and the Highpass filters, we can just cut out
all the frequencies below 36 Hertz,
or we can move this up to 100,
and this one down to 5,500 or whatever
we want, just with this EQ effect.
There's also this Output Gain.
This will increase or decrease the audio for
the entire clip, with these same effects.
So say we increase the middle frequencies,
but that makes it a little bit too loud,
we can then compensate by adjusting the Output just a bit.
There's also some Defaults that
you want to pay attention to.
These sometimes work for me, Warm presence is one
that might work a little bit more than the others.
Play around with the 1940_s, that one
sounds like an old 1940s radio,
they are some cool presets to use.
And while you're editing, you want to
make sure that you're monitoring.
So, whatever you're doing up here, will affect how it sounds
when you play through this clip.
But once you're past this clip,
it's not going to affect this clip anymore,
because this EQ effect is just on this clip right here.
When you're done, just click that
red X and you're good to go.
If you want though you can easily copy and paste
any of these effects to any of these other clips.
So, if you edit this first clip with EQ,
you probably want to do the same thing
for the rest of these clips.
So, you can just select that effect from this clip,
copy it by pressing cmd c on your keyboard,
and then selecting any of the other clips
you want to add it to, and press paste,
cmd v, ctrl v if you're on a PC.
And now if I go to a specific clip over here,
you have this EQ effect added.
And you can do that with any of these effects.
I'm undoing it right now, but you can do it
with the Highpass, Lowpass, any of them.
And next we're going to look at this,
and how you do it to an entire track,
using the Audio Track Mixer, in the next video.