Sound always needs fine-tuning to sound professional. Still, this highly technical process tin can be intimidating for lots of video editors, even those with plenty of experience nether their belt.

In truth, mail service-product processing of sound is an entire career runway because it's so specialized and involved. Yet at that place is quite a lot you can do to improve your audio if yous know the basics.

In this episode of our How To Video series, Nick LaClair, head of video product for SproutVideo, walks you lot through removing unwanted groundwork noise, and optimizing your vocals in Adobe Premiere. Watch the video tutorial below to larn how to edit your audio, and work more efficiently when processing audio in postal service. His tips volition help you salve time and avert mutual pitfalls when polishing your audio tracks.

Sound Editing Video Tutorial

This in-depth audio editing tutorial volition bear witness you how to sync your audio in Adobe Premiere, edit your audio in Adobe Audition, and put it all back together for an optimal cease result. Along the fashion, Nick provides plenty of additional pointers for improving your workflow when editing audio.

For guidance on making sure your audio inputs are as good equally your outputs, check out our episodes on 3 pop mic types and when to use them, and avant-garde video audio techniques.

Keeping reading for step-by-step instructions to replicate Nick's audio editing workflow.

1. Sync the Audio and Video in Premiere

First, you need to brand sure your audio and video files are synced properly before beginning the editing procedure. This is key because ultimately, your edited sound track will be tied to your video track. By syncing them from the go become, you'll save time and effort later on.

Notation: if you did not employ an external recording device, and recorded everything with your camera, your audio should already be synced.

In Adobe Premiere, select your audio and video sequences, right click, and and then select Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence.

Syncing Audio and Video in Adobe Premiere

Nick uses the timecode choice to sync his audio and video. Another selection would be to utilize the audio waves to sync the sound from the external recorder and the camera.

Using Timecode Sync in Adobe Premiere for Audio Editing

Next, click OK, and yous'll accept a new multi-photographic camera sequence with your audio and video linked. Rename your sequence to something easy to remember – y'all'll thank yourself later!

In Adobe Premiere, multi-photographic camera sequences do not behave quite like regular sequences. To edit this one, right click it, and select open in timeline. Whether you have one camera, or ten, they should all be linked with your audio in your timeline.

Example of Video and Audio in Timeline Adobe Premiere

In the image above, you can come across the blue video runway is synced with the three green audio tracks below it.

two. Audio Editing in Adobe Audience

The next step is to import the audio into Adobe Audience to make clean it up. It'southward important to practise this before you start editing your video.

Chances are, y'all'll generate multiple clips when editing your video. If you lot don't procedure your sound get-go, you'll have to make changes to each private audio clip. Not simply is that very inefficient, it also introduces the possibility of mistakes or inconsistencies in your audio clips.

Selecting the Tracks to Edit

Your project might be a little dissimilar, only the idea here is the aforementioned. Merely select the project containing the audio rails you want to make clean upwardly and follow these next steps.

Highlight your projection, then employ the Edit dropdown menu to select Edit in Adobe Audience and select Sequence:

Select Sequence in adobe audition for audio editing

You can leave all the options on the default settings, and just click OK.

Default Settings for Adobe Audition Edit Audio

If your projection contains audio tracks you're non planning to employ (such as scratch, or reference, audio from camera, etc), mute the tracks you lot do not need. In our case, we are only using the nail mic, so we mute the other 2.

Muted Audio Track Adobe Audition Audio Editing

In the epitome above, the small 'Grand' button volition mute the audio tracks you're not using. They're greyed out to the right. The track highlighted in greenish is the unmuted audio from our smash mic, which we'll clean up in the next couple steps.

Apply a Preset

Audio presets are a bang-up way to save time and effort in Adobe Audition. The right choice comes down to the blazon of audio you're working with and the overall outcome you're going for.

In many cases, a clean, rich, natural-sounding vocal rails is the goal you lot're working towards. Hither are the steps to take to achieve information technology.

First, select your active track past clicking on the vertical green banner on the right. Next, go to the 'effects rack', which is a list of available effects.

The preset for Radio Announcer Vocalism is a swell choice for vocals. It includes multi-band compressor parametric equalizer, and a hard limiter.

Using a Preset to edit audio in Adobe Audition

For his projection, Nick leaves the compressor alone, and tweaks the equalizer. You lot're aiming for a full, rich sound. Too much on the low end makes vocals boomy, while too much on the loftier end will make your "S" sounds harsh and hissy. He also lowers the proceeds setting to prevent clipping, and so uses the Hard Limiter to change the ceiling to -v DB.

The verbal settings to utilise here volition vary according to your project and the issue you're going for. Play with the settings until you get the sound you want.

Background Racket Reduction

The last footstep for cleaning up sound is to apply noise reduction. You lot can't do this by runway – you have to practice this to each individual clip.

For that reason, Nick recommends keeping your audio rolling when in an interview. Don't first and terminate the recording, otherwise you lot'll end upwards with multiple clips that have to exist cleaned up individually. You lot tin can save a lot of fourth dimension by avoiding this in the first place!

To remove background noise, you have to beginning isolate the sound yous want to remove. Double click your clip to open it, and employ the plus central to zoom in. We're looking for a repose spot in between the vocals that contains the background dissonance (or noise floor or room noise) nosotros want to remove.

Next, choose effects and select "dissonance reduction," and so "capture racket print." Pictured below is a repose department we selected for the noise print.

Noise Print for Background Noise Reduction Adobe Audition

Too trivial noise reduction, and you'll hear the noise floor in the room in your audio. Too much, and your subject volition audio as though they're underwater. Like to the furnishings applied to your audio, the right corporeality will exist specific to your project.

And there you have it! Your audio should audio clean and polished, and is now ready to exist sent back to your video projection in Adobe Premiere.

3. Exporting the Processed Sound

Navigate back to your original project. Then, go to File, Export, Export to Premiere Pro.

Export Audio from Audition to Adobe Premiere

You can either export each track separately as a stem, or mix it all downwardly to a mono rail. Since we're but using the ane audio rails from our projection, we'll mix it downward, and export it equally a mono track. You tin can leave all the options on their default settings, and click OK.

Adobe Audition volition now return your new audio file, and export it to Premiere. The best part? It'll automatically be linked to our Premiere project. Aren't you glad you lot synced it all up in pace i?

4. Editing With the New Sound Track

Audition has created a new copy of the sequence, and added our mono track equally a new runway. For this project, we'll mute everything except the new track.

At present we're ready to edit our video! To simplify things for editing, start you'll desire to create a new normal sequence from this multicam sequence. Select and elevate your multicam sequence to the New Particular icon in the lower correct-manus corner of the project window.

Create a New Regular Sequence in Adobe Premiere

The resulting new sequence is the one you'll edit.

Efficient Mail service-Production Workflow

The great thing nigh this workflow is that all your audio is nested into your multicam sequence. No matter how much yous edit downwardly your new sequence, y'all can always get back and make changes to your audio track in your multicam sequence, and those changes will automatically update over your entire edit sequence.

In just 3 short episodes, we've covered a lot! We showed how to select the right type of microphone and place it correctly, advanced audio techniques and dual recording systems, and audio editing in Adobe Audience.

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