WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.124 --> 00:00:01.957 In this tutorial, 2 00:00:01.957 --> 00:00:04.373 I'm going to show you how to remove echo 3 00:00:04.373 --> 00:00:07.935 from your videos with the Parametric Equaliser 4 00:00:07.935 --> 00:00:10.009 in Adobe Premiere Pro. 5 00:00:10.009 --> 00:00:12.937 So I have this clip of Will Carnaghan, my buddy, 6 00:00:12.937 --> 00:00:15.412 teaching people food photography. 7 00:00:15.412 --> 00:00:18.461 So if I take this parametric equaliser effect 8 00:00:18.461 --> 00:00:20.153 and drop it on this entire clip, 9 00:00:20.153 --> 00:00:22.700 you'll see that it pops up in our audio effects, 10 00:00:22.700 --> 00:00:25.833 and we can click edit to open up the options. 11 00:00:25.833 --> 00:00:29.108 This is similar to the old EQ effect 12 00:00:29.108 --> 00:00:32.649 in the sense that you have your frequencies on this graph 13 00:00:32.649 --> 00:00:35.490 and then the decibel level, or the gain level, 14 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:37.030 on the left-hand side. 15 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:38.604 So if we take any of these points, 16 00:00:38.604 --> 00:00:40.610 we're picking a frequency 17 00:00:40.610 --> 00:00:44.543 and increasing or decreasing the settings. 18 00:00:44.543 --> 00:00:48.626 There are some preset effects, or presets, 19 00:00:48.626 --> 00:00:50.228 for getting rid of different things 20 00:00:50.228 --> 00:00:52.198 or for enhancing different sounds 21 00:00:52.198 --> 00:00:56.339 such as acoustic guitar, rap vocals, vocal enhancer. 22 00:00:56.339 --> 00:00:57.924 For removing echo, though, 23 00:00:57.924 --> 00:01:00.718 what I'm gonna do is do it custom. 24 00:01:00.718 --> 00:01:03.439 So the way I'm actually going to find the echo 25 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:04.474 and try to reduce it, 26 00:01:04.474 --> 00:01:07.127 is to pinpoint the frequencies that are 27 00:01:07.127 --> 00:01:09.170 really affected by the echo. 28 00:01:09.170 --> 00:01:13.625 And to do that, I'm going to click on one of these points 29 00:01:13.625 --> 00:01:16.566 and actually increase the size, 30 00:01:16.566 --> 00:01:18.988 or increase the loudness of it. 31 00:01:18.988 --> 00:01:20.850 But when I do that, it brings up the loudness 32 00:01:20.850 --> 00:01:22.758 of a lot of frequencies. 33 00:01:22.758 --> 00:01:24.991 So, I'm going to adjust the width. 34 00:01:24.991 --> 00:01:27.879 So if I decrease or increase the width, 35 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:29.829 you can see that the graph changes, 36 00:01:29.829 --> 00:01:33.298 and I'm more pinpointing a specific frequency. 37 00:01:33.298 --> 00:01:35.792 So let me take this down and then play through, 38 00:01:35.792 --> 00:01:38.000 and let's try to pinpoint 39 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.852 where there is a problem area. 40 00:01:47.867 --> 00:01:50.790 So you can see right around here at 3000 or so, 41 00:01:50.790 --> 00:01:52.375 it gets to be distorted. 42 00:01:52.375 --> 00:01:53.490 If I go up here, 43 00:01:53.490 --> 00:01:55.174 it doesn't sound that distorted. 44 00:01:55.174 --> 00:01:56.269 Let's play through it. 45 00:01:58.672 --> 00:01:59.949 It sounds pretty normal 46 00:01:59.949 --> 00:02:02.502 but down here it's gonna get really wonky. 47 00:02:13.536 --> 00:02:15.696 Wow, that right there is horrible. 48 00:02:15.696 --> 00:02:19.809 So around 2655, we're gonna actually take this 49 00:02:19.809 --> 00:02:21.142 and decrease it. 50 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.721 Starting around negative 15. 51 00:02:25.721 --> 00:02:27.030 So now I'm gonna do the same thing 52 00:02:27.030 --> 00:02:28.554 with points two and three. 53 00:02:28.554 --> 00:02:31.613 So if I change the width to around 20, 54 00:02:31.613 --> 00:02:33.232 and then play through. 55 00:02:46.721 --> 00:02:48.952 Right around there, terrible, terrible. 56 00:02:48.952 --> 00:02:51.619 So we're gonna take this down again. 57 00:02:54.192 --> 00:02:57.525 And last time with the point number two. 58 00:03:18.495 --> 00:03:22.670 Okay, something weird going on around there. 59 00:03:22.670 --> 00:03:24.611 So let's take that down. 60 00:03:28.817 --> 00:03:31.937 So now, if we play through it and by-pass it 61 00:03:31.937 --> 00:03:34.071 over here in the effects window, 62 00:03:34.071 --> 00:03:35.108 and turn if on and off, 63 00:03:35.108 --> 00:03:36.886 we can hear what it sounds like. 64 00:03:43.358 --> 00:03:45.741 So that's helping quite a bit. 65 00:03:45.741 --> 00:03:48.085 So let's decrease these just a little bit more. 66 00:03:50.646 --> 00:03:51.646 Pretty good. 67 00:03:53.514 --> 00:03:54.347 Without it. 68 00:03:56.868 --> 00:03:57.701 With it. 69 00:03:58.766 --> 00:03:59.599 Without it. 70 00:04:02.192 --> 00:04:03.594 With it. 71 00:04:03.594 --> 00:04:04.746 So you can definitely tell 72 00:04:04.746 --> 00:04:07.194 that some of that echo has been reduced. 73 00:04:07.194 --> 00:04:08.837 Now, echo is one of the hardest things 74 00:04:08.837 --> 00:04:12.367 to remove as a video editor or audio editor 75 00:04:12.367 --> 00:04:13.896 but it can be removed. 76 00:04:13.896 --> 00:04:15.713 And another thing about this clip is, 77 00:04:15.713 --> 00:04:17.043 this is not the microphone 78 00:04:17.043 --> 00:04:18.388 we're actually using for this course, 79 00:04:18.388 --> 00:04:19.979 we used a Lavalier microphone. 80 00:04:19.979 --> 00:04:22.706 This is just the microphone from the camera, 81 00:04:22.706 --> 00:04:25.325 and so that's why the audio isn't good in the first place. 82 00:04:25.325 --> 00:04:27.318 But in a pinch if I had to use this audio, 83 00:04:27.318 --> 00:04:30.208 this is how I would fix it. 84 00:04:30.208 --> 00:04:31.977 There are other things that I could do 85 00:04:31.977 --> 00:04:34.923 with the Parametric Equaliser to make this sound better. 86 00:04:34.923 --> 00:04:37.302 May be cutting out some of the lows and the highs 87 00:04:37.302 --> 00:04:39.489 with this low-cut and high-cut. 88 00:04:39.489 --> 00:04:41.822 So if I turn on the low-cut, 89 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Turn this up to 90 00:04:46.896 --> 00:04:47.982 say a 100, 91 00:04:47.982 --> 00:04:50.400 and I turn on low-cut with this button right here. 92 00:04:52.282 --> 00:04:54.823 Change the frequency to around a 100. 93 00:04:57.048 --> 00:04:58.661 And then same with the high cut, 94 00:04:58.661 --> 00:05:00.603 click this button here. 95 00:05:00.603 --> 00:05:03.270 Change this down to around 6500. 96 00:05:09.834 --> 00:05:11.516 That helps just a little bit, 97 00:05:11.516 --> 00:05:14.234 and that helps get rid of some of the background noise. 98 00:05:14.234 --> 00:05:15.709 So that's how you actually 99 00:05:15.709 --> 00:05:19.776 decrease echo with the Parametric Equaliser. 100 00:05:19.776 --> 00:05:22.602 The key is to pinpoint the frequencies 101 00:05:22.602 --> 00:05:24.455 or the range of frequencies. 102 00:05:24.455 --> 00:05:26.211 Where there are some issues, 103 00:05:26.211 --> 00:05:28.231 where it's got that reflective sound 104 00:05:28.231 --> 00:05:30.061 that's bouncing off the walls. 105 00:05:30.061 --> 00:05:33.874 And then decrease those specific frequencies. 106 00:05:33.874 --> 00:05:35.133 So hopefully this helps you 107 00:05:35.133 --> 00:05:36.476 in the future with your projects. 108 00:05:36.476 --> 00:05:38.067 If you have any questions, let me know. 109 00:05:38.067 --> 00:05:40.190 Otherwise, we'll just see you in another tutorial.