Audio Mixing in Premiere

Audio Mixer

• Adjust the volume level and pan/balance of multiple audio tracks while listening to them and viewing the video tracks.
• The Audio Mixer window contains a set of controls for each audio track
• Tracks are numbered
• Use the mouse to drag a tracks's volume fader to adjust its volume over time

Drag sound files into 3 different audio tracks along the timeline

The Audio Mixer is available on a tab behind the Effects Control Panel behind the Source Monitor in the default Workspace

1. Track name
2. automation buttons
3. Mute/Solo buttons
4. Pan/Balance control
5. Pan/Balance indicator/entry field
6. clipping indicator
7. volume fader control
8. VU meter
9. dB level indicator/entry field
10. transport controls

There is a slider and set of mixing controls for each audio track

• Move the play line back to the beginning of the timeline or just before the audio tracks you inserted
• Click the Automation Write button in the middle at the top of the mixer channel. To make changes in additional tracks, click the Automation Write button for those tracks also
• The changes you make are recorded in the Timeline
• Click the play button in the Audio Mixer
• You can adjust the volume control for a track as the clip plays by dragging the slider in a track up or down

To adjust the volume controls of multiple tracks simultaneously in the timeline

• Place two audio clips in different tracks but in the same time loations on the timeline
  • Right click the volume control for one of the tracks.
  • Select Gang number (e.g., Gang 1).
• Right click the volume control for the second of the timline channels
  • Right click the volume control for one of the tracks.
  • Select Gang number (e.g., Gang 1).
• Now drag the timeline indicator to the left of the audio clips in the timeline.
• Click play in the Audio mixer
• Drag the slider up and down as the track plays
• Both tracks will be adjusted simultaneously.
• Do get rid of simultaneous controls, right click the volume control and select "no gang"

Apply audio effects in the Audio Mixer

• In the Audio Mixer, track effect options are controlled after an effect is selected in the Effects And Sends panel.
  • If the Effects And Sends panel isn’t visible, display it by clicking the Show/Hide Effects And Sends triangle on the left side of the Audio Mixer.
  • The Effects And Sends panel contains Effect Selection pop‑up menus to apply up to five track effects.
  • Adobe Premiere Pro processes effects in the order they are listed and feeds the result of an effect into the next effect in the list
  • therefore, changing the order can change the results.
  • Effects applied in the Audio Mixer can also be viewed and edited in the Timeline panel.
• An effect can be applied pre‑fader or post‑fader.
  • The difference is whether the effect is applied before or after the application of the track’s fader.
  • Effects are pre‑fader by default.
• In the Audio Mixer, effect options that change over time can be recorded using the automation options or specified in the Timeline panel by using keyframes.
• To display the Effects And Sends panel in the Audio Mixer, click the Show/Hide Effects And Sends triangle at the left of the Audio Mixer.
• In the track that you want to apply an effect, click the Effect Selection triangle and choose an effect from the pop‑up menu.