Lifting little bits of audio up & down using keyframes in Premiere

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SECTION: 3
Weird Stuff I wish I knew when I started with Premiere 16:39
SECTION: 4
Project 2 - Wedding 2:46:34
SECTION: 6
Audio 2:27:17
SECTION: 12
Final Class Project 8:20
SECTION: 13
Shortcuts 33:06

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142 lessons / 16 hours 34 quiz questions 10 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor.

I am here to help you learn Adobe Premiere Pro and to show you the tools you need to become a successful video editor. Premiere Pro is the industry standard used by professional designers to create stunning, high class videos and, after completing this course, you too can become a confident, skillful and efficient creator of stunning videos. 

This course is aimed at people who are completely new to Premiere Pro. 

If you are self taught using Premiere, this course will show you techniques you never dreamed were necessary or possible and will show you efficiencies to help speed up your workflow.

The course covers many topics - all of them on a step-by-step basis. We will use real world video editing examples to work through:
  • An interview
  • A wedding video
  • A short commercial
  • A documentary
  • Social media advertising videos
  • YouTube ‘how to’ videos
  • Talking head footage mixed with screencasts and voiceovers

We will work with text, animation, motion gfx, special effects and we will add music to our video.

We will learn how to do colour correction, colour balancing and also how to create amazing video transitions within our movie. Technical ‘guru’ topics such as HD v 4K, frames per second, exporting work, fixing up bad audio, balancing and synching audio will all become manageable tasks for you. Best of all...I will show you amazing shortcuts and techniques to speed up your workflow.

Throughout the course we will work on mini projects and I will be suggesting assignments which will add value to your portfolio.

Start your Premiere Pro training now and fast track your career as a video editor.

* Please note, you have full permission to transform and upload any work using footage of Daniel as a part of this course. 
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi everyone, in this video we're going to make these, these Audio Keyframes, because I speak really, quietly there for a section, but speak really loudly either side. So erasing the entire volume is not going to work. I need to raise just this little bit, so it kind of ramps up a little bit and then comes back down again. That is using Keyframes in your audio waveform. We're going to raise it up, we're also going to lower it down, where people are laughing through our wedding video. Let me show you how to do that now in Premiere Pro. 

To raise that bit up, I'm going to find it, and it's kind of towards the end, I kind of start really loud, and I always taper off, that's just, you can see most of my dialogue works that way. It's just a lot lower than this, you can see the peaks there. Now if you can't see the peaks very well, just remember you've got to drag this a bit taller, so you can see it, and what we're going to do as well is turn off the audio. 

Everything is getting pretty tight down here. So what was the shortcut to go full screen? You ready? That's right, the Tilde key or the Grave key. Probably always going to remember it as the Squiggle key. So I can in here be very, more deliberate. In here I'm going to zoom in a little bit. I'm going to mute that track so I can't hear it. Listen to it, and you can kind of see through the peaks, that it just tapers off down here. So what do we do? We need to be able to see this line. So make sure it's nice and big, by dragging this, too low, can't see it. Nice and big. 

What I want to do is, we're going to learn a shortcut. So you hold down the 'Command' key on a Mac, or the 'Ctrl' key on a PC, and click the line once. I want to do it where you want to start the transition into making it louder. We don't want to instantly make it louder, we want to click about there once. So right here on we want it to increase gradually. And how long do you want it to increase? Maybe, we're going to make it like a little ramp. So click just randomly about there. So I can show you what we're going to do. 

We're actually going to-- so we've got two lines, if we grab this, I'm not holding anything down, click, hold, and drag it up, you can see, I've kind of used those two dots to make a little ramp up. So I'll do it one more time, you can rewind, but I'll do it again. So I've undone a couple of times, 'Command' on a Mac, 'Ctrl' on a PC, click once, click again somewhere randomly. You can move them afterwards, you can drag this little blue dot anywhere you like. You don't have to drag the line either. Dragging the line just means it goes up and down, not left and right. 

If you drag this dot you can get it any which way you like. You might decide that it's more of a progressive increase. So this is where I'm just going to listen to it, I'm not going to-- I've just kind of raised it up a little bit across there because it's so low. The actual waveform doesn't change shape. So you've got to kind of listen to it through your headphones. I'm going to hit the 'Tilde' key again, and just watch this little thing jump up down. Remember, if you're missing the numbers, just drag it out a little bit so you can see it, because it does want to disappear when it gets really low. So I'm going to watch it. Cool. So I've raised that up. 

Another one I want to do is, I've listened to this previously and I'm like, this bit in here, there's a bit about beginners, let me listen. Not that bit. That's it there, the complete beginner's bit. Some reason I start really loud and then I kind of whisper that bit. So zoom in again, I'm going to hit my 'Tilde' key so I can see it. This one we're going to make a little tabletop, this is a bit weird. So I'm going to do two this side, and when you get started just put them in, just two, just two either side so that you can grab the middle and raise it up. 

Can you see what I mean by the tabletop? It means there's a point where it raises up, and stays up for a little while but then comes back down, because this stuff is fine, for some reason I just whisper this bit. Now it's probably too high but I'm going to listen to it with my headphones. Yeah, so that sounds all right for me. I should probably check with the levels. Cool. 

So you can do that all the way along, be editing things, be kind of lifting this up and changing it. Got to remember that shortcut key. Remember, I've put all the shortcuts in an end video, and I've made a PDF, that should be in the exercise files, but holding down the 'Command' key on a Mac, 'Ctrl' key on a PC.

One thing I want to show you before we go is, I've actually secretly opened up the Wedding project to have open at the same time, two projects open, which is normally really difficult, especially when you're new, so don't do this, but I'm doing it just because I want to show you, earlier on when we did the Wedding, we did a special kind of way. We used the Razor Tool to cut out the sections. That is totally fine, you can still do that, but let's say that we didn't want to do that; I'm going to extend it out, as we could, instead of doing the cuts, is we could hold the 'Command' key down, make a little--

Doesn't even need to be a tabletop. All it did is we hadn't had that cut there. So let's actually delete that and just extend it out again. There it is there. So I'm going to make a little tabletop, and just drag that down. So instead of cutting it out we've done that. It might be a little bit more, less abrupt, where you can kind of do it so it kind of trickles off. So there's a little bit of something going on, but without it kind of just jumping in, or just cutting on or off. 

There's no real right or wrong, you can snip it, it's easy. I often do this for a little bit of graduation, a little ramp, and I just drag it all the way to the bottom. So you can drag it up, you can drag it down. You might have a couple of peaks that are just too high, compared to everything else, it might be easier, just to lower a couple of these little tippy-toppy peaks, where you yelled into the microphone, and everything else is normal and fine. 

All right, so that is adding Keyframes in Premiere Pro, or at least an audio. Let's get into the next video.
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