In this video, you'll learn how to use keyframing in Premiere Pro's Audio Clip Mixer to organize and adjust sound levels, as well as how to reduce the number of keyframes. The tutorial also discusses soloing, normalizing and automating audio tracks to make the desired changes.
Video Transcription
Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today, we're going to take a look at keyframing in the Audio Clip Mixer. Your Audio Clip Mixer should be located right next to your Effects Control. If it isn't, go to Window and make sure Audio Clip Mixer is selected. Let's play this. A1 is the dialogue, A2 is the music. I'm going to go ahead and make things really easy for me. This is Audio 1, or A1, right there and I'm going to write in "dialogue" so I don't forget which is which. And A2 is easier. When you have a lot of different tracks, you can have many more tracks in this, and it keeps you nice and organized.
So, let's look at the levels. I'm going to first solo the dialogue, and you might notice how the S also appeared on track A1. Let's play it. You know the saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none." I prefer to say I'm a jack of all trades, a master of many. See, once I learned one type of design I found it easier to add another because some skills translate.
Now, maybe I want to boost that just a little bit. We are in Audio Clip Mixer, not an Audio Track Mixer, so changes I make with the volume have to be done individually with each of these tracks. So, I'm going to boost this up just one point or so, and I'm going to do the same for this one.
Now, let's take a look at the music. I can solo the music, you could do it up here or down here, it doesn't matter. I would actually take care of that peak in game G. Normalize Max Peak. I'm going to say minus 12. I want it to have lower peaks, so now nothing here will get above minus 12. That's a really nice level for background sound.
So, together let's see what they do together. So, just to be clear, this is your internal dialogue and music over here, which is in your window if you don't have that up. Audio meters, that's everything together, all your audio tracks together. Maybe I want to lower this music just a little bit. Like I'm going to uniformly lower that music another -2.
You might notice I have all these keyframes here. We're going to look at how to make them less keyframes, but just to look at what this done, keep an eye on this. This now moves on its own. This has now been automated. In composition, it's moving on its own up as it is. I think I want to break it down after we go to black. So it just did that. Whoops, if it kind of went back up, but let's just get rid of that. I'm going to press. You might remember W to get rid of that.
This is an automatic amount of keyframes, and most likely you'll have even more of these. And the way to correct the overabundance of little keyframes is to go underneath Premiere Pro preferences, Audio, and it's over here under Minimal Interval Thinning. I've already changed this, but I'm going to change it again. I'm going to change it to 600. Yours might say 30. I'm going to remove attributes, and I'm going to do this again. I'm going to first just uniformly lower my audio here. Make sure you don't have the diamond on, because that instantly creates a keyframe which I did by accident a second ago.
So, in composition, I want to start having the number two come up now. So I'm going to keyframe color in composition. I'm going to start moving this. Nose. So you can see now I have less keyframes. I have more of a normal number of them to create this loop, this effect. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on keyframing in the Audio Clip Mixer. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.
