Fantastic work David. I'm editing a one hour interview and the audio is all on one channel, with one person significantly louder than the other. This saved me hours of keyframing and adjusting levels. Thank you!
Glad you found it helpful 😃 I also have a new tutorial on my channel now called ”how to remove background noise”. You can check that one out and see if that’s of any help 🙂
I’m a professional audio engineer. You left out one very important key element in your video. You need to adjust the ratio on the compressor as well. The way you described using the compressor is actually kind of backwards on how it should be done correctly. You don’t necessarily need to lower your threshold all the way down to the quietest part. It can be a little higher than the quietest part. Then if you’re doing spoken word you adjust the ratio to somewhere around three or four. Then if you need, you start to raise the make up volume.
Thanks man for a helpful comment 👍 I am by no means an audio expert, so I just tried to explain what I do to adjust the audio. If you have any tips on tutorials I should check to learn more about this feel free to share! I'm always open to learn more and maybe I can make a "following-up"-video on this where I can explain things better! :) Have a great day!
Yes exactly! Using the compressor with a ratio of 1:1 is essentially bypassed. Then by adding 20db of makeup gain, you've just added 20db, you could (should) do that in the gain stage, not in the compressor. It's not great practice to add makeup gain at the compressor stage if you're not actually compressing anything.
Thanks so much ZadTrax, had a client send me an interview to edit. Only had lav mics that the recording producer adjusted on the fly, no backup audio. Volume was all over the place. This comment saved me a lot of time and frustration.
I've used Levelator in the past to do this, but it didn't work into the Premiere workflow very well. I knew there had to be a way to do this inside Premiere; now I know! Thanks for this short but informative video!
I think I have a way that is a little more elegant for podcast style videos (1 or 2 people speaking) Go to Audio, and in the far right panel: - Add Gain on Amplify (this boosts all the sound in the clip) - Add a dedicated Compressor (Single-Band Compressor is fine) The Amplify makes all the lows higher, the Compressor adds a ceiling for all sound Suddenly the entire clip is exact same volume Let me know what you think
Thank you so much for this additional information! 🙏 I will try this out for sure! I'm sure a lot of people in this comment section find this information valuable 💪🎖
UPDATE: I added 2 audio effects, like you said: - "Amplify" - "Single-band Compressor" My adjustments: "Amplify" - I increased "Gain" with 20dB. "Single-band Compressor - I went to "Bypass" > " Custom setup" and clicked "Edit". There I changed to "Voice Leveler". This method worked pretty well. If not better than my suggested one in the video. 🙂 I didn't sound "perfect" but I only used a basic shotgun mic when filming and I guess when increasing gain with 20dB, it's hard to get it "perfect". Thanks for your comment! 💪
@@jwc7663 Audio Panel -> Audio Track Mixer -> Click on the top left triangle to make the grey rectangles appear -> Master Panel -> Put effects on the master track (this makes effects that apply to everything in your project)
It was super easy to understand for me as a newcomer to this topic. I already found some written tutorials about leveling audio but I did not understand them. Thank you very much.
I'm super happy to hear that! :) My goal with these short tutorials is to make it quick and easy to understand for everyone. If people want to dig deeper into a certain topic, there is already a lot of videos and articles about that on the internet. These videos are here to "solve a problem quick" or "to get started". Thanks for your comment and have a great day! :)
Great! :) Happy you found this helpful! There are probably hundreds of ways of fixing audio but I wanted to describe it in a way most people understand and can apply :)
This is outstanding - a no BS solution to the exact problem I was looking to solve to speed up my editing workflow. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was wasting so much time using keyframes to "level out" all of my audio... just a waste of time. Thanks again!
Hi Dave, so I have an issue. I followed your video's instructions (good video by the way) for my podcast on my channel, but it changed the audio to be more crisp, but still the audio wasn't auto leveled. My issue is I recorded my podcast through OBS (while I interviewed them on SKYPE), my audio is fine, but the person I interviewed audio level was really low. And it's a 2 hour long podcast. Was looking for some way around not having to go through and level it all manually all myself. Did I not follow the instructions wrong or am I missing something? Thanks dude
Thank you! Glad you appreciate my video! :) First of all, I'm no audio expert and I'm not explaining it well in this video, however, I believe there is a pinned comment at the top explaining another solution to it. Maybe try that one out and see? I would suggest finetuning and trying different values until you find a decent enough solution to it. Sorry I can't help you more :/ (Another option is taking it into "Audition" and really finetune it in there.)
Yea, same here! The more I edit the more I realize how much the audio affects the end result. Just try watching your favourite movie without sound and you'll notice. :) I'm glad this was helpful! :)
Very helpful! I can't claim to understand exactly what every single setting does in detail but this certainly works fine. Thank you dearly for the tutorial!
Thank you so much for this. I have been recording gaming videos for a few months now and there's this problem where my teammate's audio is too low after the recording. Tried this out and it did a pretty good job. Thanks.
Great! I'm so happy to hear that! :) There is other methods for sure, but this is a pretty handy "quickfix" to make a big improvement on the audio levels without spending a ton of time on it. :)
Thanks a ton - this video helped teach me how to quickly post produce our videos to get the audio right before they go out! Maybe soon I'll remember it well enough not to re-watch each time I need to use it! Cheers!
🎁Update 2019-05-08: • Change "stereo" clips to -3dB but "mono" clips to -0dB • If you want to change a clip from Stereo to Mono, right click on a clip in the "Program Monitor", click "Modify" and "Audio Channels". Go to "Clip Channel Format" and change to "Stereo", then click "OK".
i'm a video editor and i trouble to do normalize audio because some are so much loudly some are quite So i was finding to solve that and i founded your video. so much helpful for me.i happy to know that. thank a lot from Asian Myanmar.
Question, when you say to check the 'lowest audio level', does that mean the lowest part where there is audio? Or does that include gaps in-between dialogue? I'm leaning for the former, but I'm absolutely ignorant of almost all things audio.
Yes, exactly, with "lowest part" I meant "lowest part of someone speaking (since that's what we want to increase). No point of increasing silence :) Thanks for asking, I could have clarified it better 💪
i used to be able to raise the gain of a clip really high but now ALL my clips can only be raised to a Max of +15 db. I raise the db of some clips that are really quiet but now i cant seem figure out how to unlock this cap Any help would be appreciated!
Hey! Thanks for your comment! :) Maybe I misunderstood you here, but why would you raise the volume to +15 db? You can of course raise it with 15 db but it should never show red in the volume meter (aim for -3 to -6 db)
Thanks for this! My love/hate relationship of the arduous task of keying volume animation is significantly reduced ❤ ...Now I'm free to spend more time on the EQ 🤣
Glad you liked it! 😊 I think you will also like my latest tutorial ”how to automatically lower music”! 🙂 Check the ”Premiere Pro playlist” in the video description. It should be the latest added one there 👍
I don't really get this. You leave the ratio on the compressor at 1, which means that the compressor is not actually working, i.e., compressing. You basically boost the signal level and let the limiter take care of the peaks. This also makes the audio sound over compressed. I believe a better way would be to manually split the audio and raise the volume on the lower parts, and then add a compressor with a ratio of > 1. This way, the compressor does not have to work as hard, and the audio would sound less artificial :)
Thank you for a very informative comment! I am no audio expert and this tutorial is mainly made to be a ”quick and dirty” solution for beginners that doesn’t want to spend a lot of time editing audio. I’m pretty sure that there is better ways to do it that will make it more precise, like the one you’re suggesting! 👍
I agree. Using the limiter to cut such a huge amount of clipping sounds terrible. I'd recommend using the Compressor, and start with the Soft Compression preset and work from there.
In fact, I do! :) I have been working with video for 2,5 years and recently started to freelance as a "Content Creator". Feel free to contact me for further details/questions! ➡️ davidlindgren1989@gmail.com
Great tutorial! Thanks for putting this together. One question that follows for me is: what's the best way to reduce background noise / hum / static after applying the technique described above? For instance, if I'm applying Dynamics to one long clip with multiple people speaking at different volumes, then the effects of the Compressor and Limiter are going to be pushing the levels of the background noise up and down along with the speech volume all throughout the length of the clip. This would seem to make the DeNoise effect and/or the "Reduce Noise" option in Essential Sound a poor compliment because it is not adaptive in nature and just applies a constant noise reduction effect across the whole clip that may be too strong or too weak at any given place in the clip. Could you recommend a smart approach to reducing background noise within Premiere when using Dynamics to level out audio volume in this way? Perhaps there is a way to do it with the obsolete Dynamic Noise Reduction effect?
Hi! Thanks for watching and commenting! :) I would suggest looking into Adobe Audition. There is a method there called "Noise reduction" that works pretty well for the thing you want to do. So first you capture a part of the sound where no one is speaking ("Capture noise print") and then you apply that to the whole clip so it will decrease/remove that specific sound you captured. :)
@@DavidLindgren89 Thank you for the tip! I wish they would put this feature into Premiere, but then I guess they'd lose money from video editors who need to clean up sound and are forced to buy Audition as well!
@@DoritoWorldOrder Yes it's the same thing with pretty much every Adobe program. There is things in Illustrator I would love to have in Photoshop and things in After Effects I would love to have in Premiere.
THANK YOU SO MUCH I was really struggling with the audio balancing in my recordings on discord chats. My voice would be WAY louder than anyone else's, no matter how much I seemed to adjust their volumes in discord AND OBS. TYTYTYTYTY
Thank you!! This was so helpful and I really appreciate the explanations of the logic behind what you're doing. The only thing is that when I was adjusting the dynamics the sound became way too loud, then I made Make up 0 and it was solved. In case the same happens to others this was my solution :)
what does leveling your audio actually do? i get it allowing you to have all clips being the same volume, but would it have an effect on on single clip?
Hey! :) I'm no audio expert so I can't really tell you what it does exactly I'm afraid. :/ You just have to try and see 😃 I might do more audio tutorials in the future when I have more info on the topic!
I also have a Patreon-page where you can get access to digital products for content creation and checklists for editing and publishing. That might help 😊 Check it out here: Patreon.com/davidlindgren
Thanks for the video. I have a clip where the lowest audio level is -47 so I put that as the 'Threshold' as advised but when I came to adding the minus 5 value of 42 into 'MakeUp' I couldn't as the highest 'MakeUp' goes to is 24. Can I not use this method on clips with very low (under -29) audio in them then as there's a limit?
Yea, I noticed that as well. I think it's because the difference on the highest and lowest volume in the clip is so big that it doesn't really work in a good way. If the volume doesn't change too much during the clip, I would suggest fixing it manually with keyframes, or cutting out the low parts and add 40-42 dB to those clips separately. Let me know how it goes! :)
Do you know what the maximum volume should be in premiere pro for audio for a music video to be uploaded to youtube? the song in premiere pro has already been mixed and mastered, I heard it is ok if it goes into the red as long as it does not hit 0db?
I don't know if there is such thing as a "maximum level" but I would recommend staying under 0dB with peaks somewhere between -1 and -3 dB. (You know how to decrease the volume on the whole video at once, right? Otherwise it's "Select all" > G > "Adjust gain by" and edit it there.
any hints on why adobe is like 1000% higher volume always when i start, i have to turn my PC volume down to 1 out of 100 because premiere is so stupid loud with everything. Isnt there some way to set it to always run around the PC volume normally? I mean, a song in windows media player, i drag the song into adobe and its 1000% louder. So if im looking at windows media player and then adobe back and forth, they are not even close, its so crazy bad.... So, is there a standard volume mix that adobe can load up with as a standard volume setting for all projects? Cause i need to dial down my standard load up adobe volume by like 800% minimum. This helped a lot, just need to play with it but it seems like adobe is terribly louder then anything else on my pc...
Oh, I don’t know about that unfortunately :/ I know I had some issues with Adobe before, not connecting to my headphones. Have you tried different speakers and/or headphones? Does that make any difference?
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This video changed my audio game.
Nice! Happy to hear you found it helpful! 😃
Most painless and well executed premiere tutorial I've every seen. Thanks so much!
Thank you! Makes me happy to hear that! 😊🙏
Years editing on premiere and just ocurred me that should be some way to level it without the struggle. Thank you so much sir.
No problem! :)
omg this video is how every youtube tutorial should bbe. just straight to the point and clear answers. Thank you! I am now subscribed.
Thank you and welcome! 😃♥️
New tutorial every monday! 👍
Hope u will like it here! :)
You just saved me days of manually editing hours and hours of fluctuating audio levels. Thank you, sir.
No worries, glad I could help! :D
Fantastic work David. I'm editing a one hour interview and the audio is all on one channel, with one person significantly louder than the other. This saved me hours of keyframing and adjusting levels. Thank you!
I know exactly what you mean. Awesome! Happy to hear that! 😃 Glad you found it helpful! 💪
You’re a genius! Straight to the point, clear & easy. Thanks so much!
Thank you for saying that! 😊 I appreciate your comment and I’m glad I could help! 😃
I'm actually crying, if you know the stress you've just relieved me of! Thank you so much brother! fresh subscriber!
Thank You! 😃 I’m glad you liked it! 🙏 And thanks for subscribing! More tutorials to come! 💪
amazing video thank you SO MUCH I've spent years trying to figure this out lol
Glad you liked it! 😃 Thank you! 😊🙏
Finally. After checking 4-5 videos this one worked perfectly. Thank you
Awesome! Happy to hear I could help! 😃👍
thanks for the help and the followup in the comments. I recorded a call but the other guy had a waaaay too low volume
worked like a charm :)
Glad you found it helpful 😃 I also have a new tutorial on my channel now called ”how to remove background noise”. You can check that one out and see if that’s of any help 🙂
@@DavidLindgren89 thanks will check it out 👍
So well explained! Simple & to the point. Have been thru so many different How Tos - before finding this - which solved my problem. Thank you!!
Super happy to hear that! Thanks for saying that! 😊🙏
I second this.
I’m a professional audio engineer. You left out one very important key element in your video. You need to adjust the ratio on the compressor as well. The way you described using the compressor is actually kind of backwards on how it should be done correctly. You don’t necessarily need to lower your threshold all the way down to the quietest part. It can be a little higher than the quietest part. Then if you’re doing spoken word you adjust the ratio to somewhere around three or four. Then if you need, you start to raise the make up volume.
Thanks man for a helpful comment 👍 I am by no means an audio expert, so I just tried to explain what I do to adjust the audio. If you have any tips on tutorials I should check to learn more about this feel free to share! I'm always open to learn more and maybe I can make a "following-up"-video on this where I can explain things better! :) Have a great day!
Yes exactly! Using the compressor with a ratio of 1:1 is essentially bypassed. Then by adding 20db of makeup gain, you've just added 20db, you could (should) do that in the gain stage, not in the compressor. It's not great practice to add makeup gain at the compressor stage if you're not actually compressing anything.
Thanks so much ZadTrax, had a client send me an interview to edit. Only had lav mics that the recording producer adjusted on the fly, no backup audio. Volume was all over the place. This comment saved me a lot of time and frustration.
I've used Levelator in the past to do this, but it didn't work into the Premiere workflow very well. I knew there had to be a way to do this inside Premiere; now I know!
Thanks for this short but informative video!
Happy to help and to see that this old tutorial is still useful! 😊⭐️
This is the best compressor/limiter tutorial I have found.
That makes me very happy to hear! 😊Thank you! Glad you liked it! 🙏 I hope you find my other tutorials as useful! 😃
Can't thank you enough for making this video, I had almost given up on finding the exact tool I needed to fix my audio.
So happy to hear you found this helpful! 😊🙏 Welcome back to the channel anytime! 👍
I think I have a way that is a little more elegant for podcast style videos (1 or 2 people speaking)
Go to Audio, and in the far right panel:
- Add Gain on Amplify (this boosts all the sound in the clip)
- Add a dedicated Compressor (Single-Band Compressor is fine)
The Amplify makes all the lows higher, the Compressor adds a ceiling for all sound
Suddenly the entire clip is exact same volume
Let me know what you think
Thank you so much for this additional information! 🙏
I will try this out for sure! I'm sure a lot of people in this comment section find this information valuable 💪🎖
UPDATE:
I added 2 audio effects, like you said:
- "Amplify"
- "Single-band Compressor"
My adjustments:
"Amplify" - I increased "Gain" with 20dB.
"Single-band Compressor - I went to "Bypass" > " Custom setup" and clicked "Edit".
There I changed to "Voice Leveler".
This method worked pretty well. If not better than my suggested one in the video. 🙂
I didn't sound "perfect" but I only used a basic shotgun mic when filming and I guess when increasing gain with 20dB, it's hard to get it "perfect".
Thanks for your comment! 💪
Hey, it looks good but it's kinda hard for me to find `Audio` in (`Go to Audio`). Where can I find it?
@@jwc7663 Audio Panel -> Audio Track Mixer -> Click on the top left triangle to make the grey rectangles appear -> Master Panel -> Put effects on the master track (this makes effects that apply to everything in your project)
It was super easy to understand for me as a newcomer to this topic.
I already found some written tutorials about leveling audio but I did not understand them. Thank you very much.
I'm super happy to hear that! :)
My goal with these short tutorials is to make it quick and easy to understand for everyone. If people want to dig deeper into a certain topic, there is already a lot of videos and articles about that on the internet.
These videos are here to "solve a problem quick" or "to get started".
Thanks for your comment and have a great day! :)
JUST what I needed. Very easy to understand and straight to the point. Thanks a lot!
Thank you Faris! Glad you liked it! :D
Great tutorial, easy to understand. Thank you.
Saved me hours of fiddling with my clients bad audio.
You have gained a subscriber!
Thank you! 🙏 Happy to help! 😊
If only the world was to the point and crisp like your video. I would have two lifetimes.
Hahaha! Best comment today! 😂 Thank you so much! 😊🙏
bro i love you. you saved me 19 seconds into the video. great tutorial. to the point and simple. thank you. subbed, liked. you got a new supporter
Love that!! 😊👏 Thank you so much! I’m happy I could help! (You have 49 other short Premiere-tutorials on my channel if you want to learn more) 😇
Love you bro❤️, you have solved the problem that I have been facing from past few years.
So happy to hear that Muhammad! 😊I'm happy you liked the video and found it helpful! Best of luck in your edits! 💪
quick, simple and exactly what i need thanks you!! you are a god send
Thank you so much for the nice words! ☺️
I'm happy you liked it! :D
Awesome. Didn't know about the "dynamics" effect. Made it a lot easier than using separate compressor and stuff.
I’m glad you found it helpful! 😊
Great! :) Happy you found this helpful! There are probably hundreds of ways of fixing audio but I wanted to describe it in a way most people understand and can apply :)
thanks i did the normalise peak all peak to -3 twice and everything became good
Awesome! Happy I could help! 😃👍
This is outstanding - a no BS solution to the exact problem I was looking to solve to speed up my editing workflow. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was wasting so much time using keyframes to "level out" all of my audio... just a waste of time. Thanks again!
Thank you for your comment! I’m glad I could help! :)
Thanks. This helped me a ton. Much more automated than trying to build volume keyframes.
Cool! I’m glad you liked it! 🙂
As someone with 0 audio experience, stuff like this helps a lot.
Happy to hear that ☺️ It’s for people like you I make these short easy tutorials 👍 Make the complicated things simple.
Happy to hear that ☺️ It’s for people like you I make these short easy tutorials 👍 Make the complicated things simple.
after looking for hours finally a good video and up to the point ❤
Happy I could help! 😃
Hi Dave, so I have an issue. I followed your video's instructions (good video by the way) for my podcast on my channel, but it changed the audio to be more crisp, but still the audio wasn't auto leveled.
My issue is I recorded my podcast through OBS (while I interviewed them on SKYPE), my audio is fine, but the person I interviewed audio level was really low. And it's a 2 hour long podcast. Was looking for some way around not having to go through and level it all manually all myself. Did I not follow the instructions wrong or am I missing something?
Thanks dude
Thank you! Glad you appreciate my video! :)
First of all, I'm no audio expert and I'm not explaining it well in this video, however, I believe there is a pinned comment at the top explaining another solution to it. Maybe try that one out and see? I would suggest finetuning and trying different values until you find a decent enough solution to it. Sorry I can't help you more :/ (Another option is taking it into "Audition" and really finetune it in there.)
eversinve o started editing, i was focused on graphics and not much on audio... thank you for this man
Yea, same here! The more I edit the more I realize how much the audio affects the end result.
Just try watching your favourite movie without sound and you'll notice. :)
I'm glad this was helpful! :)
Thank you so much! Saved our edit today which had been hampered by Covid lockdown.
Glad to hear that Megan! ☺️ Always makes me happy to hear that I can help someone!
For levels, only your video has helped me. Thank you very much.
I'm glad to hear it helped! :) Thanks MJ! :D
Very helpful! I can't claim to understand exactly what every single setting does in detail but this certainly works fine.
Thank you dearly for the tutorial!
Believe me, me neither! 😂 But it works and that’a the important part, right? 😁
Thank you so much for this. I have been recording gaming videos for a few months now and there's this problem where my teammate's audio is too low after the recording. Tried this out and it did a pretty good job. Thanks.
Great! I'm so happy to hear that! :) There is other methods for sure, but this is a pretty handy "quickfix" to make a big improvement on the audio levels without spending a ton of time on it. :)
Thank you, man.
This "Dynamics" war really helpful for me.
Cool! Glad that was helpful! 😃
That was awesome thanks for the video
No problem! Thanks for the comment! 🙏
This 2 minute video was way more helpful than other ten minutes long videos.
Glad you like it 😃 Thanks for watching! 👍
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Thank you, this tutorial video really helps me so much
Glad to hear that! :D
Thanks a ton - this video helped teach me how to quickly post produce our videos to get the audio right before they go out! Maybe soon I'll remember it well enough not to re-watch each time I need to use it! Cheers!
Thanks for watching! Glad you like it! 😃 Feel free to re-watch as many times as you like 😂📈👌
REALLY THE BEST VIDEO I SAW ABOUT THAT SUBJECT! You save me hours of keyframing for a much better job! Thanks a lot
Happy to hear you found this helpful! 😃👍
Thank you sooo much Man! This is the most easier and quicker way to fix it up I've ever seen on yt tutorial!
Thank you! :) I know there are multiple ways of doing this, but I'm happy you found this useful! :)
🎁Update 2019-05-08:
• Change "stereo" clips to -3dB but "mono" clips to -0dB
• If you want to change a clip from Stereo to Mono, right click on a clip in the "Program Monitor", click "Modify" and "Audio Channels". Go to "Clip Channel Format" and change to "Stereo", then click "OK".
This helps improving video quality so much, thank you! :)
Glad you liked it! :D
Thanks for the tip -5 worked good for me
Awesome! Happy to hear! :)
Amazing man love the simplicity, fixed alot of my audio problems instantly
Happy to hear that! Thanks for your comment! ☺️
You teaching technic is amazing!!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! 😊 Thanks!
i'm a video editor and i trouble to do normalize audio because some are so much loudly some are quite So i was finding to solve that and i founded your video. so much helpful for me.i happy to know that. thank a lot from Asian Myanmar.
Glad you found this helpful and thank you so much for your nice comment! 😊🙏
really good guide, this is probably the best method right now
Thank you! :) I'm glad you found this video helpful! :)
Thank you for short and simple tutorial. Unlike those 15 minutes tutorial that also tell you how their day went and what they bought at Walmart
Haha 😆 Thanks! 😊 Glad you appreciate it! I make it short and easy on purpose! 👍
Nice and straight to the point, thank you David
Glad you liked it!🙂
this saved me so much time on an edit. Thanks so much for the quick and easy tutorial!!!
I'm superhappy to hear that! :D Thank you for watching and commenting! Feel free to reach out to me on social media if you have any questions! 💪
Holy cow! This is exactly what I was looking for. Great video!
Thanks David :D Happy you liked it! Also, great name! Your mom and dad had good taste 👌
Quick and effective, right to the point!
Thank you Quang! :) Glad you liked it!
I keep getting back to this video. Incredible helfpul.
Love to hear that! Thank you Alexander! :D
Question, when you say to check the 'lowest audio level', does that mean the lowest part where there is audio? Or does that include gaps in-between dialogue? I'm leaning for the former, but I'm absolutely ignorant of almost all things audio.
Yes, exactly, with "lowest part" I meant "lowest part of someone speaking (since that's what we want to increase). No point of increasing silence :)
Thanks for asking, I could have clarified it better 💪
@@DavidLindgren89 Thanks mate, I figured I had the gist of it, but wanted to be absolutely sure before I started using it in my videos long-term.
i used to be able to raise the gain of a clip really high but now ALL my clips can only be raised to a Max of +15 db. I raise the db of some clips that are really quiet but now i cant seem figure out how to unlock this cap
Any help would be appreciated!
Hey! Thanks for your comment! :)
Maybe I misunderstood you here, but why would you raise the volume to +15 db? You can of course raise it with 15 db but it should never show red in the volume meter (aim for -3 to -6 db)
David, very clearly explained and demonstrated - thank you for the helpful tutorial!
Thanks for the comment Chuti! :) I’m glad you found this video helpful!
The best video on this ever. So straight forward and easy!
Thank you so much for this nice comment!
Thanks for this! My love/hate relationship of the arduous task of keying volume animation is significantly reduced ❤
...Now I'm free to spend more time on the EQ 🤣
Glad you liked it! 😊 I think you will also like my latest tutorial ”how to automatically lower music”! 🙂 Check the ”Premiere Pro playlist” in the video description. It should be the latest added one there 👍
I don't really get this. You leave the ratio on the compressor at 1, which means that the compressor is not actually working, i.e., compressing. You basically boost the signal level and let the limiter take care of the peaks. This also makes the audio sound over compressed. I believe a better way would be to manually split the audio and raise the volume on the lower parts, and then add a compressor with a ratio of > 1. This way, the compressor does not have to work as hard, and the audio would sound less artificial :)
Thank you for a very informative comment! I am no audio expert and this tutorial is mainly made to be a ”quick and dirty” solution for beginners that doesn’t want to spend a lot of time editing audio. I’m pretty sure that there is better ways to do it that will make it more precise, like the one you’re suggesting! 👍
@@DavidLindgren89 Gotcha! Then I think using only a limiter would be even easier, as the compressor basically has no effect =)
I agree. Using the limiter to cut such a huge amount of clipping sounds terrible. I'd recommend using the Compressor, and start with the Soft Compression preset and work from there.
Thanks for adding value Jarle! 🙏 Appreciate that!
Never thought this video would blow up so much 🤯
thanks mate very helpful, do you offer editing services
In fact, I do! :) I have been working with video for 2,5 years and recently started to freelance as a "Content Creator". Feel free to contact me for further details/questions! ➡️ davidlindgren1989@gmail.com
Great tutorial! Thanks for putting this together. One question that follows for me is: what's the best way to reduce background noise / hum / static after applying the technique described above? For instance, if I'm applying Dynamics to one long clip with multiple people speaking at different volumes, then the effects of the Compressor and Limiter are going to be pushing the levels of the background noise up and down along with the speech volume all throughout the length of the clip. This would seem to make the DeNoise effect and/or the "Reduce Noise" option in Essential Sound a poor compliment because it is not adaptive in nature and just applies a constant noise reduction effect across the whole clip that may be too strong or too weak at any given place in the clip. Could you recommend a smart approach to reducing background noise within Premiere when using Dynamics to level out audio volume in this way? Perhaps there is a way to do it with the obsolete Dynamic Noise Reduction effect?
Hi! Thanks for watching and commenting! :)
I would suggest looking into Adobe Audition. There is a method there called "Noise reduction" that works pretty well for the thing you want to do.
So first you capture a part of the sound where no one is speaking ("Capture noise print") and then you apply that to the whole clip so it will decrease/remove that specific sound you captured. :)
@@DavidLindgren89 Thank you for the tip! I wish they would put this feature into Premiere, but then I guess they'd lose money from video editors who need to clean up sound and are forced to buy Audition as well!
@@DoritoWorldOrder Yes it's the same thing with pretty much every Adobe program. There is things in Illustrator I would love to have in Photoshop and things in After Effects I would love to have in Premiere.
Thanks for the quick and helpful tutorial! Just what I was looking for :)
Thank you! Glad you liked it! 😃
Awesome, this should get more views. It was incredibly fast to learn pretty much audio magic that helped me a lot with my clips. Thanks!
Thank you so much! 😊 I'm glad it helped and that you appreciate what I do! :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I was really struggling with the audio balancing in my recordings on discord chats. My voice would be WAY louder than anyone else's, no matter how much I seemed to adjust their volumes in discord AND OBS.
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No worries :) I'm happy you found this tutorial helpful! More to come on the channel! 💪
This is a game changer for me. Thank you so much!
Glad you liked it! 😃👌
Thanks so much, simple yet informative video. Helped me a lot
Thank you for the comment! Glad u liked it! 😃✊
Thank you for very useful tips! Added to my sound design playlist!
That's great! :D Thank you!
I'm glad you found this helpful!
David Lindgren89 literally using it now in each of my videos. This dynamics effect is so powerful!
Amazingly useful information, concise and to the point. Thanks so much!
Thank you for those kind words ☺️ Glad you found my video useful! 👍
Short and to the point. Exactly how it should be.
Thanks for your comment! :) I’m happy I could help 😃
Thank you!! This was so helpful and I really appreciate the explanations of the logic behind what you're doing. The only thing is that when I was adjusting the dynamics the sound became way too loud, then I made Make up 0 and it was solved. In case the same happens to others this was my solution :)
Hi! I'm glad you liked the video and thanks for your helpful comment! :) Have a great day!
Like the tutorial, quick and concise. I'll apply this to my workflow. Thank you
Glad to hear that it was helpful! 😃
You sir, are a lifesaver.
Thanks! Happy you liked the video ☺️ More tutorials to come! 120 and counting 💪
@@DavidLindgren89 I’ll keep an eye out, I could always use more information :)
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Thank you! Your tutorial really helped me.
Happy to hear that! :D Thanks for the comment! 😊🙏
Thank you very much for your help!!
No problem! :D Glad you liked it! 👍
Thank you!!! You helped me solve a huge problem in my video today 🙏
Really happy to hear that! 😃 Thanks for your comment Tristan and have a great day! 💪
if you have a lot of noise when you aren't talking, use the DeNoiser.
BTW thanks bro you helped me a lot
Thanks man, I'm glad it helped! :)
That's awesome! Easy to get, direct to the point, short and pratical! Great job! Thank you!!
Thank you! :D This is exactly my ambition with these tutorials. I'm glad it helped! 👍
@@DavidLindgren89 and this is a bit harder to get find. :)
@@GameOverRobsonB I'll try to do more! :)
what does leveling your audio actually do? i get it allowing you to have all clips being the same volume, but would it have an effect on on single clip?
Hey! :) I'm no audio expert so I can't really tell you what it does exactly I'm afraid. :/ You just have to try and see 😃 I might do more audio tutorials in the future when I have more info on the topic!
best tutorial, wonder why they removed dynamics from cc 2017
Thank you so much! 😃
Glad you liked the video!
thank u so much
No problelm my friend! 👍
Nice work - nice clear simple explanation!
Happy you liked it! ☺️
Thanks dude, much better than lots of advice out there
I'm glad to hear that! Thank you! 😊
Err, isn't -3db a bit rude? I may well be wrong, but isn't -12 the broadcast standard? Anything louder kind of breaking the unspoken agreement.
That might be. That's more than I know to be honest. 😄 Thanks for the heads up 👍
You just helped me massively! Great tutorial!
I’m happy to hear that! 😃👍
I also have a Patreon-page where you can get access to digital products for content creation and checklists for editing and publishing. That might help 😊 Check it out here: Patreon.com/davidlindgren
Thanks for the video. I have a clip where the lowest audio level is -47 so I put that as the 'Threshold' as advised but when I came to adding the minus 5 value of 42 into 'MakeUp' I couldn't as the highest 'MakeUp' goes to is 24. Can I not use this method on clips with very low (under -29) audio in them then as there's a limit?
Yea, I noticed that as well. I think it's because the difference on the highest and lowest volume in the clip is so big that it doesn't really work in a good way. If the volume doesn't change too much during the clip, I would suggest fixing it manually with keyframes, or cutting out the low parts and add 40-42 dB to those clips separately. Let me know how it goes! :)
Do you know what the maximum volume should be in premiere pro for audio for a music video to be uploaded to youtube? the song in premiere pro has already been mixed and mastered, I heard it is ok if it goes into the red as long as it does not hit 0db?
I don't know if there is such thing as a "maximum level" but I would recommend staying under 0dB with peaks somewhere between -1 and -3 dB. (You know how to decrease the volume on the whole video at once, right? Otherwise it's "Select all" > G > "Adjust gain by" and edit it there.
Fantastic. Shorty. To the point. Good job. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! :D Thanks for watching! Keep ninjin' ;)
so helpful. thank you!
Glad you found it helpful 😃👍
Extremely helpful, I really needed this, thank you
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Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for and it's explained succintly!
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Hey, sorry for late reply. Glad you found this helpful! 🙏☺️
Perfect tutorial thanks..
Thanks to you for watching and commenting! 😊🙏
Thanks, speedy and informative!
Glad you liked it 😊👍
Bro....is there any quality loss in audio if we raise few decibels (1db-6db)?
I don’t think so, as long as it doesn’t hit the red area (0 to -2dB) but I’m no audio expert so can’t say for sure 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks!
No problem! :)
any hints on why adobe is like 1000% higher volume always when i start, i have to turn my PC volume down to 1 out of 100 because premiere is so stupid loud with everything. Isnt there some way to set it to always run around the PC volume normally? I mean, a song in windows media player, i drag the song into adobe and its 1000% louder. So if im looking at windows media player and then adobe back and forth, they are not even close, its so crazy bad.... So, is there a standard volume mix that adobe can load up with as a standard volume setting for all projects? Cause i need to dial down my standard load up adobe volume by like 800% minimum. This helped a lot, just need to play with it but it seems like adobe is terribly louder then anything else on my pc...
Oh, I don’t know about that unfortunately :/ I know I had some issues with Adobe before, not connecting to my headphones. Have you tried different speakers and/or headphones? Does that make any difference?
TYSM IN MY VID MY VOICE WAS LOUD AND MY FRIENDS WERE QUITE SO THIS WAS PERFECCTTTT
Awesome mate 😊🙏