Clean up audio with Adobe Audition - Premiere Pro Tutorial

- [Instructor] Adobe Audition integrates beautifully into your post-production workflow in Premiere Pro. And in this video, I'd like to show you two ways in particular. I'm in the add Audition sequence and I've got two audio issues here that we're going to resolve with Audition. First, let's listen to this voiceover, I'm going to solo the track and play a little. - [Woman] I would know when I saw it. - [Instructor] Yup, it sounds pretty awful. The second issue is that I have some music here. Fantastic music that I want to use with this sequence but it's too short. My sequence goes on for probably another 20 or 30 seconds after the music finishes. You can fix both of these issues in Premiere Pro. But I'm going to show you quick ways of doing it in Audition. First of all, let's send this voiceover to Audition. I'm going to right-click and choose edit clip in Adobe Audition. This opens up the voiceover in Audition. And even if you don't recognize the Audition interface, a lot of these tools will be familiar because Adobe standardized the tools across the applications some time ago. Before we get into Audition, I just want to toggle back to Premiere Pro and draw your attention to the name of this clip. This was called noisy journey to New York voiceover, or VO. It's now got the words audio extracted added to the end of the name. And that's because when I sent the clip to Audition, Premiere Pro duplicated the media file and replaced the clip in the sequence with the duplicate. Premiere Pro has to do this because the workflow in non-linear video editing post production means never modifying your original media files. But in audio editing, the traditional workflow is to modify the audio files that you're working on. To avoid that clash of paradigms, Premiere Pro gives you a copy to work on automatically. Over in Audition, I got away from representing this voiceover. And up at the top, I've got show spectral frequency display and this gives me a visual indication of what's going on with my audio. Time still moves from left to right, I've got two channels, left and right. But now, the blackness of the dots indicates the amplitudes at different frequencies. Vertical axis here indicates frequency, not amplitude. So dots at the top are high tone and dots at the bottom as low tone. Let's play a little of this. - [Woman] It was, but suffice. - [Instructor] Well, it's pretty clear we've got some kind of radio mic interference going on in the high frequencies. Much higher than will matter for our dialogue. So, with this Marquee tool selected by default, I'm going to lasso to select all of those high frequencies. And then, I'm going to press backspace or delete. When I deselect, they're gone. - [Woman] And when I saw it, I wanted. - [Instructor] Much better. Now if I zoom in, I'm pressing the plus key here on my keyboard. It looks to me like we've got some low hum here. Maybe a little bit of hiss as well. So, I'm going to select this section of the wave form and under Effects, noise reduction and restoration, I'm going to choose capture noise print. Get a confirmation message. Now I'm going to deselect, I'm gona go back into Effects, noise reduction and restoration, and I'm going to choose noise reduction. This takes me into a comprehensive interface where I can selectively remove unwanted noise. I'm just going to click apply. And let's listen now. - [Woman] I wanted to go to New York, but. - [Instructor] It's already sounding better. Let me zoom out a little and find a bigger gap. - [Woman] When I saw it, I wanted to go to New York. - [Instructor] Great. Now remember, we're working on the original media file. So, if I press save. Command + S on MAC, or Control + S on Windows, and toggle back to Premiere Pro. I'll solo this track and let's listen. - [Woman] I wanted to go to New York, but you know, all the construction. - [Instructor] Great, we're ready to continue in Premiere Pro. And how about that music clip? Well, let's finish with my edit more or less. I'm going to send the entire sequence to Audition. I'm going to the Edit menu with the timeline active. And I'm choosing edit in Audition sequence. Most of the options in this menu should make pretty good sense to you. But note this path, the files we're going to output now from Premiere Pro are going to go into this folder. The one menu that might not be familiar to you is this one. We're going to send the video using dynamic link. This is the same as the relationship between people and After Effects. So we don't actually need to export any video at all. We could export a DV file if we wanted to send this to another machine, or not include the video, but I'm going to use dynamic link. I'll click OK. And up comes the entire sequence in Audition. Well, admittedly with very few clips in it. We've got a video preview at the bottom left corner and here's that music. To change the duration, I'm going to select the music clip and in the properties panel, I'm going to click to enable remix. This performs analysis of the audio to allow me to do this. Using this special remix icon in the corner of the clip, I'm going to drag to change the duration of the music. And just like that, the music now plays for new duration. Not by stretching the playback speed, but by automatically selecting pieces of the clip to blend together to create a new duration. Where you see these jagged lines is where the joins are. Let's have a listen to one of them. (calm music playing) Wonderful. This alone can save hours of post-production time. There are advanced settings available for remix and I encourage you to play with them and explore and try out the different options if you don't get the result you want. If I'm happy with this result, I can select the music clip and choose file, export, multitrack mixtown, selected clips. I'm going to put this in the music folder that we have for our media. I'm happy with all the settings, I'll click okay. Browsing to that folder. Here's the audio. I was a bit lazy with that file name there but it'll do. And I'll drag this into the project panel directly in Premiere Pro. In the timeline, I'll just press backslash to view the entire sequence. And I'm going to drag this new version of the music over the old. And now, my music lasts the duration of my sequence. That's two ways that you can incorporate Adobe Audition into your workflow with Premiere Pro.