Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one of our expert contributors to share a tip, tool, or technique that they use all the time and couldn’t live without. This week, Jarle Leirpoll shares how Essential Sound is the trick to speeding up your Premiere Pro audio mix.
Sometimes, we just don’t have enough time to do a polished audio mix. This is when the Premiere Pro Essential Sound panel can help us get a decent sounding mix with minimal effort, supported by AI.
Select clips of the same type, like dialogue, and click on the correct audio type in the Essential Sound panel.
For dialogue clips you can auto-match the loudness, reduce noise, enhance voices etc. on all clips simultaneously just by dragging some sliders. Be careful not to make the sound over-processed.
I tagged my music clip as Music and got suitable settings for music clips. The music is too long, so I chose to remix to a new duration. Easy!
Music can be ducked against dialogue clips automatically.
I do a better job than the panel mixing ambience, so I just selected all the ambience clips and added audio crossfades (Sequence > Apply Audio Transition).
Finished audio mix in less than a minute! The longer your timeline is, and the more clips it has, the more time you save. All your adjustments can be saved as presets at the top of the panel, so you can easily re-use them, making future mixes even faster.
Tip: I turn off “Auto-tag audio types in the timeline” in Audio Preferences to avoid B-roll where someone is talking in the background getting tagged as dialogue.
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