Instructor: In this tutorial,
I'm going to show you how to remove echo
from your videos with the Parametric Equaliser
in Adobe Premiere Pro.
So I have this clip of Will Carnaghan, my buddy,
teaching people food photography.
So if I take this parametric equaliser effect
and drop it on this entire clip,
you'll see that it pops up in our audio effects,
and we can click edit to open up the options.
This is similar to the old EQ effect
in the sense that you have your frequencies on this graph
and then the decibel level, or the gain level,
on the left-hand side.
So if we take any of these points,
we're picking a frequency
and increasing or decreasing the settings.
There are some preset effects, or presets,
for getting rid of different things
or for enhancing different sounds
such as acoustic guitar, rap vocals, vocal enhancer.
For removing echo, though,
what I'm gonna do is do it custom.
So the way I'm actually going to find the echo
and try to reduce it,
is to pinpoint the frequencies that are
really affected by the echo.
And to do that, I'm going to click on one of these points
and actually increase the size,
or increase the loudness of it.
But when I do that, it brings up the loudness
of a lot of frequencies.
So, I'm going to adjust the width.
So if I decrease or increase the width,
you can see that the graph changes,
and I'm more pinpointing a specific frequency.
So let me take this down and then play through,
and let's try to pinpoint
where there is a problem area.
So you can see right around here at 3000 or so,
it gets to be distorted.
If I go up here,
it doesn't sound that distorted.
Let's play through it.
It sounds pretty normal
but down here it's gonna get really wonky.
Wow, that right there is horrible.
So around 2655, we're gonna actually take this
and decrease it.
Starting around negative 15.
So now I'm gonna do the same thing
with points two and three.
So if I change the width to around 20,
and then play through.
Right around there, terrible, terrible.
So we're gonna take this down again.
And last time with the point number two.
Okay, something weird going on around there.
So let's take that down.
So now, if we play through it and by-pass it
over here in the effects window,
and turn if on and off,
we can hear what it sounds like.
So that's helping quite a bit.
So let's decrease these just a little bit more.
Pretty good.
Without it.
With it.
Without it.
With it.
So you can definitely tell
that some of that echo has been reduced.
Now, echo is one of the hardest things
to remove as a video editor or audio editor
but it can be removed.
And another thing about this clip is,
this is not the microphone
we're actually using for this course,
we used a Lavalier microphone.
This is just the microphone from the camera,
and so that's why the audio isn't good in the first place.
But in a pinch if I had to use this audio,
this is how I would fix it.
There are other things that I could do
with the Parametric Equaliser to make this sound better.
May be cutting out some of the lows and the highs
with this low-cut and high-cut.
So if I turn on the low-cut,
and if I make this... Turn this up to
say a 100,
and I turn on low-cut with this button right here.
Change the frequency to around a 100.
And then same with the high cut,
click this button here.
Change this down to around 6500.
That helps just a little bit,
and that helps get rid of some of the background noise.
So that's how you actually
decrease echo with the Parametric Equaliser.
The key is to pinpoint the frequencies
or the range of frequencies.
Where there are some issues,
where it's got that reflective sound
that's bouncing off the walls.
And then decrease those specific frequencies.
So hopefully this helps you
in the future with your projects.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Otherwise, we'll just see you in another tutorial.