From the course: Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

Why there are two mixers - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

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Why there are two mixers

- [Instructor] Premier Pro has two audio mixers. And they provide adjustments that are fundamentally different to one another. Let's take a quick look at these two important parts of the interface. I'm in the two mixers sequence and I'm in the audio workspace. And in that workspace both mixers are on screen. The audio clip mixer actually gives you control over the rubber band on clips in your sequences. So here for example if I adjust the fader for audio one when I release the mouse you can see the rubber band updates. I can adjust pan on clips as well and I can mute and solo tracks. These are just shortcuts to those controls. You can also use the control at the bottom of the audio clip mixer to rename tracks. Let's rename this VO and you can see that updates in the timeline panel. The third button here allows you to write keyframes during playback. And I can show you this with the music. I'll turn on write keyframes and I'm going to use the spacebar to play and I'll drag the fader for this music. ♪ wise but suffice to say ♪ ♪ I would know when I saw it ♪ ♪ I wanted to go to New York ♪ - There you go. Lots of keyframes. Because you're actually modifying the keyframes on your clips, if you look in the effect controls panel and select the clip that you've adjusted you'll see all of those keyframes repeated. And you can edit them, modify them, make any changes you want to. These three panels in fact will update each other. That's the timeline panel, effect controls and the audio clip mixer. I'll just turn off the keyframe tracking there and let's take a look at the audio track mixer. I'll just undo as well to get rid of those keyframes. The audio track mixer never makes adjustments to clips. It exclusively adjusts audio level on tracks. It's also a bit more comprehensive than the audio clip mixer. There are various modes for working on existing keyframes. And now this third button is to enable recording directly onto the track. So if you got multi-channel audio device on your system you can actually use Premiere Pro as a multitrack recorder. There are also a few more advanced playback controls that otherwise this interface is pretty similar. At the top of each track you've got the option to add multiple audio effects. And again these are track based not clip based. So any clips that are placed on a track with an effect will be heard through the effect. And you also have the option to create submixers for grouping together the audio from multiple tracks. This just makes it easier to manage effects and audio level. In the timeline panel, this little menu in the track header for each track allows you to specify whether you'll see Clip Keyframes or Track Keyframes. And if I change this to track volume you'll see that I can hold command or control in Windows and add keyframes to the track regardless of whether there are clips there or not. And there's a little bit of a gotcha because in this mode I can't select and move clips at all. I can bring up their settings in the essential sound panel by lassoing them but I actually can't click on them. And I can't move them. So be sure to switch back to clip keyframes when you're done. Track-based audio management is very powerful and provided you organize your timeline well it can make your audio mixing much more efficient. For this audio one track I'm going to go up to the effects and I'm going to go to amplitude and compression and choose a multi-band compressor. This pops up on the list with just one control visible right away. I'll move the play head to the beginning of the timeline and double-click on the effect to bring up the detailed settings. and whoa that is a lot of detail. But luckily we've got presets. Here for example I can choose walkie-talkie and I use the spacebar to play back and let's have a listen. ♪ I was searching for something ♪ ♪ I couldn't say where it wise but ♪ Okay. Or perhaps I'll change this to broadcast and let's have a listen to that. ♪ Suffice to say ♪ ♪ I would know when I saw it ♪ Well with the other audio adjustments we've made to these clips we're going to need to undo some earlier changes to benefit from this compressor. This is a powerful effect that can add a lot of punch to your audio. I'll just close this and for now. So having these two mixers in Premiere Pro provides you with a really comprehensive range of audio tools. Which means that you may not ever need to leave Premiere Pro to produce a professional audio mix.

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