Phil Ebner here with video school online.com And in this tutorial I'm going to walk through how you
use the central sound panel in Premiere Pro.
This was released in April of 2017 when they updated the Creative Cloud version of Premiere Pro so this
isn't going to walk through all the nitty gritty of how you actually add and all that kind of stuff
but it's basically how this panel works.
So to open that panel just go up to a window when you're in Premiere Pro window and choose a central
sound.
This is sort of the next level with the essential graphics panel that we've seen before as well.
Awesome.
So when you don't have anything selected and you open up the essential sound panel this is what you'll
see.
And basically what this allows you to do is quickly added different types of audio using somewhat more
of a preset.
You can also edit multiple clips at once.
And this video right here that I have open is a good example of when you would want to really use this
essential graphic essential sound panel that is.
So to edit audio with this select the audio you want to add it and then you see that once you have selected
you have these presets which is awesome because there's presets that are already built in.
Or if you want you can save presets say you edit a podcast of yourself or a video series of yourself
or you're editing a long series of videos for someone else and you're always editing someone's voice
the same way you can create a preset so you don't have to reapply a bunch of settings over and over.
But if you don't want to use a preset you can choose one of these other audio type assignments.
So for dialogue which this is I would select dialogue and when you click that you get more options so
you get your presets at the top which we saw before and these are just PRI's says that you can go through
and see what they sound like if you click over the intercom.
It's going to sound like the audio is coming over one of those in a intercoms.
So let me put that back into the vault and you can kind of play through these some are fun some are
you know more creative.
Others will actually make your voice sound even better.
For example balance of male voice balance female voice and podcast podcast voice are the ones that I
would play around with first then below your presets you have your different editing options similar
to how the Metro color panel or the essential graphics panel works.
You can click on these sort of tabs and it opens going from top to bottom.
Loudness is a really cool one because this allows you if you select multiple clips to match the loudness
of all of the clips.
Perfect for if you have multiple people that you've edited together on one sequence like this one.
So here this is a promo video for a digital marketing class that I created with Diego Davola.
And because we recorded separately in different environments and at different levels I had to go in
and manually adjust the levels to match.
But I could live with the central sound panel selected although all of my clips gone to the loudness
setting and clicked auto match and that will match the audio the audio loudness next you have repair
which allows you to reduce background noise or rumble.
So just click on those and then increase this slider to reduce more background noise or less.
You also have deep hum here so you have sort of low humming noise.
It could be from an air conditioner unit in the background or something like that.
You can reduce that with that checkbox.
Clarity will try to make your voice a little bit more clear so just clicking on that dynamic button
and increasing the slider will help that.
And then you also have if you scroll down within the clarity I make this a little bit bigger we can
see more of the options you have AQ with it's different presets.
So again this is diving into specific editing tools within these this whole preset for dialogue.
And you can choose vocal presence podcast voice over all kinds of different presets.
There you have this enhanced speech option right here which we'll just automatically try to cue your
voice to make it sound better.
And also creative options so you have reverb that you can add and you can choose what you want it to
sound like.
This is good for effects if you're making more creative films but not somebody necessarily want to add
for just a talking head video.
And then lastly you have your clip volume so you can check those button and just increase by decibel
or decrease by decibel how loud you want this clip to be or even mute it.
So those are all the different options you have within the dialogue audio type if you go up and choose
a preset up here so let's just go to a podcast voice you'll see that the settings are automatically
adjusted.
And you can always go back to individual clips and make adjustments as well.
I have all of these clips selected right now and if I want to go back and edit one individually I can
go into that clip and go into the essential sound panel and make edits or adjustments to that individual
clip.
So it's kind of similar to if you're taking the Premier Pro Seek-Seek course of mine or you've seen
other tutorials of mine.
It's similar to going into your effects controls and editing audio this way which is actually when you
add essential sound effects or adjustments they appear under audio effects in your effects controls
similar to if you make Luma street color adjustments with the loom which or color panel.
It also appears here in your effect's Control Panel but it's not as easily or visually easily edited
in this panel as it is with a central sound panel.
The last thing I want to mention is there's these other types.
So if I click I had already edited this but if I click on the music for example this is one of my favorite
features of this panel I can choose music.
They have different presets but the one I love is balance background music which will try to balance
the audio to your dialogue because you want your music to be at a lower level than your dialogue.
And so this will try to automatically balance the music to any dialogue.
I've found that it's not perfect sometimes I need to drop it down a little bit lower which you can do
with the clipped volume here but it's a good place to start.
You also have these presets for remakes to 30 seconds 60 seconds and 90 seconds which will automatically
cut down your audio or extend to 30 60 or 90 seconds which is awesome if you are editing a shorter version
of a video that you have.
For example if you want to make a short social media version of that cool so if you have any questions
about the essentials sound panel let me know.
Hopefully you understand how it works now.
Next all you have to do is go and play around with the specific settings.
A lot of things with audio it takes going in diving in and seeing how you actually edit it to see what
actually sounds good.
Like for editing audio dialogue for example I might like the podcast voice.
Q preset for Diego but when I go to me I might like something else so it takes playing around with it.
You also have these sliders to play around the Mount.
The goal is that this makes it easy to edit audio if you're not an audio and an engineer and just by
playing around you can get something that sounds really awesome.
Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in another Premier Pro tutorial.