A lot of you have been asking for an audio editing tutorial for a long time! Glad to finally make it! :) If you wanna save time, you can signup for my email newsletter and download my audio preset for FREE and make your audio sound amazing! Get it here: get.whoismatt.com/multiband
Matt WhoisMatt Johnson another amazing video. I saved this video in my folder. Your tips have been extremely help lately and this is going to help me. Thanks Matt
The fact that this video is from 2017 and it s the best on this subject it s blowing my mind... you re still one of the 3 youtubers that I watch for wedding films!!
Being a music producer I can give something back to you that might help as you've helped me along the way alot with making videos! :) .. A great (and quick) way to stop a backing track interfering with a vocal line is determine the most dominant frequency of the vocal and then scoop a little of that frequency out of the backing track. Most EQ's will give you a live graph showing you the frequency as you play the vocal clip.. so say for instance your looking at your vocals main peak and its around 160hz .. you can then add say a parametric EQ onto the backing track and scoop out some of that 160hz frequency range a few db to give the vocal its own range to sit in. The benefits of this is you can raise the volume of the backing track and still have the vocal audio shining through and have a much fuller sounding audio .. you may have come across it when in a project .. in your head it sounds like the music wants to be louder .. but when you try it starts to drown out the vocal.. that will be an unfortunate song choice that has clashed with the vocal chords of the guy/girl that decided to get married (very mean of them!) So if that happens .. find the most dominating frequency of the vocal and scoop a little of the same frequency out the backing track.. you'll find you can then raise the backing track and still have the vocal punching through clearly. Hope it helps as you've helped me so much in the past!
This is also a fantastic tip! I do this for instruments when recording music, but I totally forgot about applying to vocals/ music in my wedding videos!
you just blew my mind.. literally had no idea. thinking back to some of the wedding audio I outputted earlier in the year and wish I knew this! thanks a bazillion Matt
Dude I just spent a few hours watching videos to try and get a good audio preset (adding all kinds of different effects) and this method was SO MUCH SIMPLER and it sounds better than every other preset I tried to make. Thanks!
I've watched SO many tutorials with no luck of finding what I needed for audio editing. I can't thank you enough for sharing this, it's exactly what I was looking for. A++++!
Years ago Sony Vegas (software) had a "auto duck" effect that would automatically reduce music volume when a narrator is speaking. Felt it was helpful for certain kinds of videos.
Awesome stuff! One piece of advice for further separating the dialogue from the music is something called “notching.” This is where you locate the main frequencies of the voice and then dip those frequencies in the music track. Works like a charm.
One of the better Videos. Broadcast editor here and you explained it perfectly. As well listen to your finished piece over as many devices as possible!!! Bravo!
this is a very down to earth way of correcting audio, aimed for the masses not towards sound specialists this is how you edit events not hollywood blockbusters
As a long time audio engineer I will say that your explanation was great. You could also use a gate (waves) to reduce the noise between the dialog and noise reduction like x-noise (waves) to reduce any static or hiss in the audio and R-Bass (Waves) to give the dialog more body.
Great video. This has made my vocals sound so much better on my videos. I only see half of the waveform in the groom's voice audio track. Do you record the vocals in mono?
I love how you provide useful audio tutorials, as we engineers are only beckoned out of our dungeon when there is a wedding post production crisis lmao! Thank you for this, and happy filming!
10:57 You're absolutely right. If you drop the gain on clip level would basically trigger the multiband compressor in a different way so the gain reduction wouldn't be the same. The difference might not be dramatic but it's technically correct to change the output on the plugin itself. it was a single band compressor then things would be simpler but with multibands it's better to be safe than sorry :) Great video as always Matt :)
Karmically and coincidentally, you have once again saved the day Matt! I'm in the throes of editing audio for one of my wedding films. Your tips saved my toasts and note reciting BIG TIME! Thanks again for your frenetic and comedic energy and for your awesomeness and expertise!
Just a note on your comment on turning the waveform down, it just makes your plugin work less effictively, you're raising the threshold at which the compressor starts to work so making the compressor less aggressive. hope that clears up the gain anomaly.
I am still learning how to use Premier but if the signal path is the same as standard DAW's like Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools ect then you can turn it down at the mixer as well and it shouldn't affect the signal. But yes changing the gain on the waveform is going to have an impact on the compression.
Hi, good and entertaining videos! Instead of the multiband compressor, you might consider the Dynamics Processing plugin for 2 reasons: You're not actually using the processor to process multi-band (separately low, mid and high frequencies), and indeed for wedding videos probably never will. The Dynamics Processing plugin allows you to set the same attack and release in the Settings tab, but more interesting for you (I think!), the Dynamics tab provides you with curves in a way that is totally analogous to the Lumetri RGB curve. You have the same straight line from bottom left to top right. Black=silence white=full volume. You add points to your curve in the same way, and you can "grade" your sound. If there's some background noise, you can quickly adjust the curve to reduce it, if there's a mid part that could do with a little extra gain without "pumping or breathing", you can do that too. It's all very controllable. I use it very often.
Your tutorial is good and helpful but it’s your personality which just made me sub. You emit so much positivity. Looking forward to watching your other content.
Thank you so much. Super helpful and entertaining. If anyone does want to know the broadcast standard as a basepoint Larry Jordan has stated Talking Heads is between -6dB and -12dB, Sound Effects between -12dB and -18dB and music soundtrack -18dB but like you say unless it's actually for broadcast TV there's probably a bit of subjective flexibility in there.
It's a bit more complicated than that because everything gets mixed differently for different speakers and different rooms. That's why the ads sound louder than than the movie when you're watching on TV.
Thank you so much for this brilliant video Matt! I watched a bunch of audio tutorials beforehand but they weren't helpful at all. Then I remembered following some other tutorials of yours in the past. So finally I landed here! 😊
I do love your Videos Buddy. May I give you and your viewers a Tip. I use the same Multiband Compressor all the time, it's great but if you add the effect to Audio Track Mixer, rather than the Clip itself, It applies to the whole track at once, also for some reason only known to Adobe, the Broadcast setting don't need re selecting when applied this way? they are already set correctly, win win!. And lastly on the Effect control, if you set the Margin to -3, of the right side of the effect Panel, it will stop any of the compression exceeding -3, so you are all done... Hope this helps, it really helped me when dealing with multiple clips at once, in fact it's still quicker when only adding to a couple of clips.. Happy new Year.. Steve Does that all make sense buddy?
@@cristian_enea At the top of the Audio Track Mixer there is a small arrow on the left > Click that and the effects panel twirls down. Add your effects there.
Hello Matt.. I use multiband compression a lot to improve my audio. I want to give you an extra trick to save you some time and some pc performance: Instead of applying the plugin on tracks and use multiple plugins and since you are using the same values on the compressor, you can apply it once on the audio channel that contains your speeches. Additionally, after mixing both music and speeches you can use a compressor on the master channel in order to make everything match even better.
Super nice tutorial, thanks!!! This year (2018) Premier launched an option where you can set which is the voice and which is the music and BOOM! premier make the magic with the sounds levels, really good to save edition time.
I also use EQ alot.. typically taking out super low frequencies (high-pass) and bumping the mid range a bit to allow the voice to cut through a bit and live in a different space. I love your videos bro! Huge fan!
you are the man! dude thanks so much for your willingness to share your knowledge with others. I have gotten very good feedback on my first few wedding films. they think I have been doing it for a long time. little do they know I am just a student of whoismatt - making me look like a pro!
Matt, Thank you for this!! I'm working on a Highlight now and you just up'd the quality so much! By the way, after our consultation I've now booked 18 weddings in 2018. I credit you with much of my success! Thanks for putting these videos together for us fellow creators.
Profoundly useful - timeless value, even six years later, because it addresses factors that make audio sound great and that will never change. Presence, and clipping, have to be addressed the same today as in 2018. Thanks also for showing how to fix audio directly in Premiere, without having to jump into Audition. That said, I've been intrigued by the wonderful mixed sound I can get, quite accidentally, with RX Ozone (cheap stripped-down version). Would love to learn more.
10:19 - I would recommend that you stick to the audio track for volume control when I use effects for the audio I will use bypass to toggle them so I hear how much it effects the track. If I used the gain in the effect it would spike the volume when I am checking how the effect influences the audio quality. I am still in the "What does this do" stage of my video editing and will change controls to the extremes just to see what it can do.
Great video! You should do one on removing the ambient rumbling of people chatting in the background of a large room, I'm often filming spaces on the fly where there the subject cant be mic'd
My settings for the multiband compressor are as such: margin -3.5 to -4.5 depending if mixing with music and output gain +5 to +15. What this does is that it increases the compressor effect so voices that have more distance to the mic sound the same as someone who is wearing the mic or is closer to it.( example lav on groom only with bride standing next to him ).If the effect gets too strong to the point where it also catches up the noise when the bride is speaking instead of increasing the output gain you can increase the individual sliders, namely the 2nd and 3nd sliders ( where voice is more present ). P.S. margin controls you final db levels not output gain. You can also decrease the compressor effect if it is too much by lowering output gain ( ex. wanting to apply to live music recorded with 1-2 microphones only ). Please correct me if i am doing it wrong :)
Great explanation, I've been watching poorly explained videos all night trying to understand PP audio editing and I just learned what I needed from you in 20 min. Thank You!!! SUBSCRIBED..
So happy I found this. Seriously had the impetus to 'like' or add to a playlist about 5 times throughout the video...but I already had within 5 seconds. :D You're my new role-model for online presence...even your email collection and how you guide people to your site...Love it! [your dancing to the wedding music track :'D] Happily signing up for your email list. I'm starting my own production of video and audio and I'm confident you're gunna take me 5 (or way more) big steps towards producing something I can be proud of. Thank you for doing what you do how you do it!
Hi Matt, Great video. You started with very good audio to start with. Do you have any tutorials on fixing bad audio? Removing wind noise, fixing mic harmonics, fixing levels etc. Cheers
dude. Clear concise video and this was exactly what I needed to see and understand to bring audio in my videos podcasts and films to a way better level instantly. I used to shop the audio up where was loud and quiet and adjust the audio gain manually and then blend those chunks of audio together with constant gain. You've literally saved me countless hours of work with better results. I'd love to interview you on our show that's all about filmmaking and talk about some technical things that can help people improve their short films.
Yes, I've been doing that, editing live theatre productions, balancing loud and soft voices, line by line, and as you know, it takes many, many hours...! Am about to try Matt's techniques, and will cheer (and comment), if successful!
@@fiddleandfart I found the audio compression got me pretty much 90% of the way to where I was getting with all the manual adjustments. And for the purposes of the podcast that I'm producing it gets the job done beautifully saves me so much time
I think the difference between using the plug-in to change the volume with output gain and just changing the level on the clip would be that the the compressor isn't clamping down as hard when you just change the clip level. So if you turned the volume up and looked at the compressor fader, you should see it compressing harder and hear it changing the sound of the voice more when you use the compressor to change the output volume. Hope that made sense haha
Another - game changer from Matt... so glad I found this, the plug in it's a time saver, headache reliever and the shiznit... if you're ever in Richmond, VA... beers on me!!
This video has been one of the most helpful tutorials I have found regarding audio and I have been using this tip repeatedly over the past few years. Recently, some of your newer videos, combined with some issues I have been experiencing myself in Adobe Premiere, have inspired me to finally give DaVinci Resolve a try, but I can't figure out how to work with audio in Resolve. I find myself editing my audio in Adobe Audition and then importing it into Resolve. Any tips on how to improve Resolve audio like this?
Dude! I'm shooting a wedding in a few weeks time and audio is something I'm only just looking in to in any detail. I've just done a little test recording and this trick is freakin' awesome. Liked, Subbed, You're awesome! Thanks so much
I personally use this method: Right click on the voice audio, audio channels, then click the box on the left so that both channels are selected. In my opinion it makes the voice audio sounds much better but I will give your tricks a shot as well :) Any thoughts on this?
This is awesome. I'm editing my first wedding video right now and the audio from Tascam is much more noisy, would be helpful if you could make a video mixing one of those, thanks Matt!
I'd suggest to firstly set the voice's gain at a normal level and leave it there. Afterwards open the compressor and set the values. If you want more compression effect you lower the "Threshold". One of the most critical parameters. If you need volume change do it on the plugin. At that stage reducing audio's clip volume you gonna feed the compressor with less power and it's like u're setting the threshold closer to zero, meaning less or no compression (and vice versa). Overall Great video, keep it up!
Cool preset. Thanks Matt! I've used the compressor, but I like your tweaks. However, I believe if you raise the volume bar (4:07) on the timeline and then lower the output gain on the compressor, you are effectively exporting almost same volume as you recorded at. I've made this mistake, and it just leads to longer rendering time, larger render files, and of course more effects lead to more compression- and in the end lower quality audio on the exported file.
Amazing video tutorial about audio editing on Premiere Pro CC 2018. Very clear and easy to follow your all instructions. Love the way you talking about, your explanation, your Face expression, and so on! It makes your video tutorial alive and interesting than other person tutorial they have out there. Keep up the good work dude. Well Done :)
Thank you so much Matt! Super thankful for the help. Would you please consider making a video on how to edit audio being around an air conditioner or loud fan? I find that I run into that problem often and would love to see how you handle it. Thanks again!
Your tutorials are by far the best I have found on RUclips! Can you do more specifically on audio, maybe some more stuff beginning vloggers/filmmakers need to know? There is a lack of good videos on this topic, most videos just say "do this and do that" without explaining what all these confusing audio settings actually do, but your explanation really makes me understand what I am doing when I apply those settings, so I hope you will make more videos about this!
Nice video Matt.. the preset is a great start, but i was expecting a bit more elaboration on some of the settings. In my case i have a number of interviews audio to edit and using the broadcast preset really bumped up the noise drastically. it actually sounds worse than the original. if you have any adivice or a video reference on how to use the compressor please let me know i would greatly appreciate that. Thank you!
Quick time saving tip. Rather than changing the clip volume to keep levels around -3db you can change "Margin" to -3 in Multiband Compressor, right above attack and release.
I have spent the last week scouring RUclips for a good audio tutorial and I am so glad I found your vid. Great tutorial and it was funny as well. Thank you sir.
Nice, this helps me keep my workflow in Adobe Premier, usually I'm exporting my videos to ProTools and doing the same process there! Since everyone's voice is different i would ride the faders for each of the 4 sections of frequencies on the multiband compressor. So there is a only a touch of compression on each. That's the only other thing I would add because of the difference between a guy and girl's voice. If somebody uses the preset without checking the amount of compression its doing at each frequency it might be going too hard at certain frequencies or not at all. As far as pops/bumps i just use a high pass filter on the EQ Izotope has great plugins for fixing audio, like declick, denoise and dehum (ain't cheap tho) This is a great for any type of project, and one the the biggest parts of a project! Bad audio can mess up a video. This tutorial for premier has been lacking in the youtube space, thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial! I would say that the cheap studio monitors you suggested are actually better than the krk monitors. Add a sub and measuring mic with some room treatment and you have a killer studio you’ve upgraded over time. Again great video!
Thank you for this my friend. New Premier Pro user (from iMovie) and was struggling to mix voice and audio since iMovie does is automatically. This was superrrr helpful.
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A lot of you have been asking for an audio editing tutorial for a long time! Glad to finally make it! :)
If you wanna save time, you can signup for my email newsletter and download my audio preset for FREE and make your audio sound amazing! Get it here: get.whoismatt.com/multiband
This was awesome!
Just an FYI, both headphones recommended are linking to the same Sony headphones.
Great info tied together with that funny personality, deadly combo. Keep em coming Dude!
Matt WhoisMatt Johnson Matt!!! Man this is awesome thanks so much for this. My audio is some trash!!! This helps so much!
Thanks guys! 😁
Matt WhoisMatt Johnson another amazing video. I saved this video in my folder. Your tips have been extremely help lately and this is going to help me. Thanks Matt
The fact that this video is from 2017 and it s the best on this subject it s blowing my mind... you re still one of the 3 youtubers that I watch for wedding films!!
Being a music producer I can give something back to you that might help as you've helped me along the way alot with making videos! :) .. A great (and quick) way to stop a backing track interfering with a vocal line is determine the most dominant frequency of the vocal and then scoop a little of that frequency out of the backing track. Most EQ's will give you a live graph showing you the frequency as you play the vocal clip.. so say for instance your looking at your vocals main peak and its around 160hz .. you can then add say a parametric EQ onto the backing track and scoop out some of that 160hz frequency range a few db to give the vocal its own range to sit in. The benefits of this is you can raise the volume of the backing track and still have the vocal audio shining through and have a much fuller sounding audio .. you may have come across it when in a project .. in your head it sounds like the music wants to be louder .. but when you try it starts to drown out the vocal.. that will be an unfortunate song choice that has clashed with the vocal chords of the guy/girl that decided to get married (very mean of them!) So if that happens .. find the most dominating frequency of the vocal and scoop a little of the same frequency out the backing track.. you'll find you can then raise the backing track and still have the vocal punching through clearly. Hope it helps as you've helped me so much in the past!
This is also a fantastic tip!
I do this for instruments when recording music, but I totally forgot about applying to vocals/ music in my wedding videos!
Absolutely amazing. You sir are an oasis of truth in a RUclips wasteland of bad tutorials
Poetic truth David.
beautiful fact
you just blew my mind.. literally had no idea. thinking back to some of the wedding audio I outputted earlier in the year and wish I knew this! thanks a bazillion Matt
Dude I just spent a few hours watching videos to try and get a good audio preset (adding all kinds of different effects) and this method was SO MUCH SIMPLER and it sounds better than every other preset I tried to make. Thanks!
I've watched SO many tutorials with no luck of finding what I needed for audio editing. I can't thank you enough for sharing this, it's exactly what I was looking for. A++++!
Can't tell you how many times I've returned to your tutorials throughout the years. Thank you for the endless amounts of help!!
Blakey Don't stop making soft. I wished I started as early as you. You have a lot of years to learn!
Years ago Sony Vegas (software) had a "auto duck" effect that would automatically reduce music volume when a narrator is speaking. Felt it was helpful for certain kinds of videos.
This is definitely one of the most practical audio tutorials you can find on the internet
Awesome stuff! One piece of advice for further separating the dialogue from the music is something called “notching.” This is where you locate the main frequencies of the voice and then dip those frequencies in the music track. Works like a charm.
I named your multiband compressor custom setting as "Fucking Life saver" because that's what it is. And that's what your are. Thank you so much, man.
😂 glad to help!
The fastest way to set your gain: Select audio clip in timeline and press 'G' on the keyboard to set your gain :)
One of the better Videos. Broadcast editor here and you explained it perfectly. As well listen to your finished piece over as many devices as possible!!! Bravo!
this is a very down to earth way of correcting audio, aimed for the masses not towards sound specialists
this is how you edit events not hollywood blockbusters
I am reinstalling Premiere Pro and this is the first and only audio settings I go and follow. Thank you very much Matt!
As a long time audio engineer I will say that your explanation was great. You could also use a gate (waves) to reduce the noise between the dialog and noise reduction like x-noise (waves) to reduce any static or hiss in the audio and R-Bass (Waves) to give the dialog more body.
Haha glad I did okay!! 😁
This is hands down the most simple method to get decent sound. THANK YOU!!! So very very much!
Great video. This has made my vocals sound so much better on my videos.
I only see half of the waveform in the groom's voice audio track. Do you record the vocals in mono?
I love how you provide useful audio tutorials, as we engineers are only beckoned out of our dungeon when there is a wedding post production crisis lmao!
Thank you for this, and happy filming!
Hahaha thanks!
10:57 You're absolutely right. If you drop the gain on clip level would basically trigger the multiband compressor in a different way so the gain reduction wouldn't be the same. The difference might not be dramatic but it's technically correct to change the output on the plugin itself. it was a single band compressor then things would be simpler but with multibands it's better to be safe than sorry :) Great video as always Matt :)
Thanks for clarifying things Dom! :) Glad I'm doing things right!
Karmically and coincidentally, you have once again saved the day Matt! I'm in the throes of editing audio for one of my wedding films. Your tips saved my toasts and note reciting BIG TIME! Thanks again for your frenetic and comedic energy and for your awesomeness and expertise!
Thanks so much Jason!
2 year old, but golden words... good content has a long life :)
Just a note on your comment on turning the waveform down, it just makes your plugin work less effictively, you're raising the threshold at which the compressor starts to work so making the compressor less aggressive. hope that clears up the gain anomaly.
Thanks so much for the clarification Steve! 😁
I am still learning how to use Premier but if the signal path is the same as standard DAW's like Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools ect then you can turn it down at the mixer as well and it shouldn't affect the signal. But yes changing the gain on the waveform is going to have an impact on the compression.
Hi, good and entertaining videos!
Instead of the multiband compressor, you might consider the Dynamics Processing plugin for 2 reasons:
You're not actually using the processor to process multi-band (separately low, mid and high frequencies), and indeed for wedding videos probably never will.
The Dynamics Processing plugin allows you to set the same attack and release in the Settings tab, but more interesting for you (I think!), the Dynamics tab provides you with curves in a way that is totally analogous to the Lumetri RGB curve. You have the same straight line from bottom left to top right. Black=silence white=full volume. You add points to your curve in the same way, and you can "grade" your sound. If there's some background noise, you can quickly adjust the curve to reduce it, if there's a mid part that could do with a little extra gain without "pumping or breathing", you can do that too. It's all very controllable. I use it very often.
Your tutorial is good and helpful but it’s your personality which just made me sub. You emit so much positivity. Looking forward to watching your other content.
Thank you so much. Super helpful and entertaining. If anyone does want to know the broadcast standard as a basepoint Larry Jordan has stated Talking Heads is between -6dB and -12dB, Sound Effects between -12dB and -18dB and music soundtrack -18dB but like you say unless it's actually for broadcast TV there's probably a bit of subjective flexibility in there.
It's a bit more complicated than that because everything gets mixed differently for different speakers and different rooms. That's why the ads sound louder than than the movie when you're watching on TV.
Thank you so much for this brilliant video Matt! I watched a bunch of audio tutorials beforehand but they weren't helpful at all. Then I remembered following some other tutorials of yours in the past. So finally I landed here! 😊
You helped me so much with this. I might have to go back and reapply this to all my videos, but will definitely use this preset going forward.
I do love your Videos Buddy. May I give you and your viewers a Tip. I use the same Multiband Compressor all the time, it's great but if you add the effect to Audio Track Mixer, rather than the Clip itself, It applies to the whole track at once, also for some reason only known to Adobe, the Broadcast setting don't need re selecting when applied this way? they are already set correctly, win win!. And lastly on the Effect control, if you set the Margin to -3, of the right side of the effect Panel, it will stop any of the compression exceeding -3, so you are all done... Hope this helps, it really helped me when dealing with multiple clips at once, in fact it's still quicker when only adding to a couple of clips.. Happy new Year.. Steve Does that all make sense buddy?
Thanks so much Steve! Those are some really great tips!
Hi. How do you add the effect to audio track mixer?
@@cristian_enea At the top of the Audio Track Mixer there is a small arrow on the left > Click that and the effects panel twirls down. Add your effects there.
This content is gold❤️
I've been dealing with a lot of audio issues over the past couple weeks. This helped me immensely. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks Caleb!
Hello Matt.. I use multiband compression a lot to improve my audio. I want to give you an extra trick to save you some time and some pc performance:
Instead of applying the plugin on tracks and use multiple plugins and since you are using the same values on the compressor, you can apply it once on the audio channel that contains your speeches. Additionally, after mixing both music and speeches you can use a compressor on the master channel in order to make everything match even better.
Nice tip! :)
Just wanted to say this is such an amazing video. I had no idea about these settings!!! Thank you so much!
Hi, Matt. Great video! A question here, please: can be used the plugin in Davinci Resolve? Thanks
Super nice tutorial, thanks!!! This year (2018) Premier launched an option where you can set which is the voice and which is the music and BOOM! premier make the magic with the sounds levels, really good to save edition time.
I also use EQ alot.. typically taking out super low frequencies (high-pass) and bumping the mid range a bit to allow the voice to cut through a bit and live in a different space. I love your videos bro! Huge fan!
you are the man! dude thanks so much for your willingness to share your knowledge with others. I have gotten very good feedback on my first few wedding films. they think I have been doing it for a long time. little do they know I am just a student of whoismatt - making me look like a pro!
Matt, Thank you for this!! I'm working on a Highlight now and you just up'd the quality so much! By the way, after our consultation I've now booked 18 weddings in 2018. I credit you with much of my success! Thanks for putting these videos together for us fellow creators.
Listening to video on a phone, “that’s how people watch videos on now”. Sets down phone, contemplates life.
Profoundly useful - timeless value, even six years later, because it addresses factors that make audio sound great and that will never change. Presence, and clipping, have to be addressed the same today as in 2018. Thanks also for showing how to fix audio directly in Premiere, without having to jump into Audition. That said, I've been intrigued by the wonderful mixed sound I can get, quite accidentally, with RX Ozone (cheap stripped-down version). Would love to learn more.
10:19 - I would recommend that you stick to the audio track for volume control when I use effects for the audio I will use bypass to toggle them so I hear how much it effects the track. If I used the gain in the effect it would spike the volume when I am checking how the effect influences the audio quality. I am still in the "What does this do" stage of my video editing and will change controls to the extremes just to see what it can do.
Great video! You should do one on removing the ambient rumbling of people chatting in the background of a large room, I'm often filming spaces on the fly where there the subject cant be mic'd
Thank you. Useful video. Only one question... applying the compressor, there is also a lot of back noise....how to reduce/eliminate it?
Simone Casadei ah! The noise...bane of a lot of ppls existence
TNice tutorials tutorial is so useful,I tried tons of other tutorials but tNice tutorials was the best one
My settings for the multiband compressor are as such: margin -3.5 to -4.5 depending if mixing with music and output gain +5 to +15. What this does is that it increases the compressor effect so voices that have more distance to the mic sound the same as someone who is wearing the mic or is closer to it.( example lav on groom only with bride standing next to him ).If the effect gets too strong to the point where it also catches up the noise when the bride is speaking instead of increasing the output gain you can increase the individual sliders, namely the 2nd and 3nd sliders ( where voice is more present ). P.S. margin controls you final db levels not output gain. You can also decrease the compressor effect if it is too much by lowering output gain ( ex. wanting to apply to live music recorded with 1-2 microphones only ). Please correct me if i am doing it wrong :)
Thanks for the clarity, this sounds good to me!
Great explanation, I've been watching poorly explained videos all night trying to understand PP audio editing and I just learned what I needed from you in 20 min. Thank You!!! SUBSCRIBED..
Killed it man. You’re so good at these types of videos and shamelessly plugging yourself! I love it. Thanks for taking the time and making this.
Haha thanks Miguel!
So happy I found this. Seriously had the impetus to 'like' or add to a playlist about 5 times throughout the video...but I already had within 5 seconds. :D You're my new role-model for online presence...even your email collection and how you guide people to your site...Love it! [your dancing to the wedding music track :'D] Happily signing up for your email list. I'm starting my own production of video and audio and I'm confident you're gunna take me 5 (or way more) big steps towards producing something I can be proud of. Thank you for doing what you do how you do it!
Very helpful, even if I don't do wedding videos. Love the honesty and transparency about your skills.
Hi Matt,
Great video. You started with very good audio to start with. Do you have any tutorials on fixing bad audio? Removing wind noise, fixing mic harmonics, fixing levels etc. Cheers
I'd love to know this too!
dude. Clear concise video and this was exactly what I needed to see and understand to bring audio in my videos podcasts and films to a way better level instantly. I used to shop the audio up where was loud and quiet and adjust the audio gain manually and then blend those chunks of audio together with constant gain. You've literally saved me countless hours of work with better results. I'd love to interview you on our show that's all about filmmaking and talk about some technical things that can help people improve their short films.
Yes, I've been doing that, editing live theatre productions, balancing loud and soft voices, line by line, and as you know, it takes many, many hours...! Am about to try Matt's techniques, and will cheer (and comment), if successful!
@@fiddleandfart I found the audio compression got me pretty much 90% of the way to where I was getting with all the manual adjustments. And for the purposes of the podcast that I'm producing it gets the job done beautifully saves me so much time
eventually it all snapped into place and I started learning how to add all the effects, titles, motion text. It was pretty cool to see my
You sure know how to make a video. I didn't get to skip not a single second, such a solid content video. Keep it up!
I think the difference between using the plug-in to change the volume with output gain and just changing the level on the clip would be that the the compressor isn't clamping down as hard when you just change the clip level. So if you turned the volume up and looked at the compressor fader, you should see it compressing harder and hear it changing the sound of the voice more when you use the compressor to change the output volume.
Hope that made sense haha
Another - game changer from Matt... so glad I found this, the plug in it's a time saver, headache reliever and the shiznit... if you're ever in Richmond, VA... beers on me!!
This video has been one of the most helpful tutorials I have found regarding audio and I have been using this tip repeatedly over the past few years. Recently, some of your newer videos, combined with some issues I have been experiencing myself in Adobe Premiere, have inspired me to finally give DaVinci Resolve a try, but I can't figure out how to work with audio in Resolve. I find myself editing my audio in Adobe Audition and then importing it into Resolve. Any tips on how to improve Resolve audio like this?
A second video on eq would help a lot of people. I created 3 presets for removing hiss and rumble in fcpx. Discussing hi and low cut would be great.
Nice idea! :)
I would be very interested in this!
This is probably in the top three videos that i have watched all year!
At 14:17 you made my day. Great info, keep up the good work.
Dude! I'm shooting a wedding in a few weeks time and audio is something I'm only just looking in to in any detail. I've just done a little test recording and this trick is freakin' awesome. Liked, Subbed, You're awesome! Thanks so much
Yay! This is what I've been waiting for! Also thank your for preset! YOu are a ROCKSTAR!
I personally use this method: Right click on the voice audio, audio channels, then click the box on the left so that both channels are selected. In my opinion it makes the voice audio sounds much better but I will give your tricks a shot as well :) Any thoughts on this?
Multiband compressor is soo good. Great explanation Matt
Your channel is GOLD for someone like me who is just starting out in the filmmaking industry. Thak you!
Thank you Matt! You are a fantastic source of Premiere knowledge!
your video is funny and informative. This video is a great addition to my adobe knowledge :D thank you
Matt, you are a fantastic teacher. Thanks for being who you are and doing what you do!
absolutely bro !! thank you !!
been watching your videos everyday, and everytime i watch, i learn something useful. Thanks for being here man!
I can't tell you how many times after a Premiere update I come back to this video just to get the Multiband compressor settings lol. Thanks...AGAIN!
This is awesome. I'm editing my first wedding video right now and the audio from Tascam is much more noisy, would be helpful if you could make a video mixing one of those, thanks Matt!
I'd suggest to firstly set the voice's gain at a normal level and leave it there. Afterwards open the compressor and set the values. If you want more compression effect you lower the "Threshold". One of the most critical parameters.
If you need volume change do it on the plugin. At that stage reducing audio's clip volume you gonna feed the compressor with less power and it's like u're setting the threshold closer to zero, meaning less or no compression (and vice versa).
Overall Great video, keep it up!
I’ve watched 100 videos on this, and this video hands down was the best. Thank You 👍
Cool preset. Thanks Matt! I've used the compressor, but I like your tweaks. However, I believe if you raise the volume bar (4:07) on the timeline and then lower the output gain on the compressor, you are effectively exporting almost same volume as you recorded at. I've made this mistake, and it just leads to longer rendering time, larger render files, and of course more effects lead to more compression- and in the end lower quality audio on the exported file.
Yeah Man!!!
Finally! haha I ask for this video the past month and you made it!
You are the best, greetings from Uruguay!
Amazing video tutorial about audio editing on Premiere Pro CC 2018. Very clear and easy to follow your all instructions. Love the way you talking about, your explanation, your Face expression, and so on! It makes your video tutorial alive and interesting than other person tutorial they have out there. Keep up the good work dude. Well Done :)
Did you ever make the noise removal / background clear video? Would be a huge help. This video is brilliant :D
Thank you so much Matt! Super thankful for the help. Would you please consider making a video on how to edit audio being around an air conditioner or loud fan? I find that I run into that problem often and would love to see how you handle it. Thanks again!
Thanks David! Planning on covering audio fixes like that in a future video!
So so SO good! everyone else has been saying it, but my mind has been blown
Thanks for the super informative tutorial!
Very quick and easy to understand, I'll definately use the newfound information in my videos
Hey Matt, used this guide when I was working in Premiere but I've recently switched to Resolve. Will you be doing any audio tutorials for Resolve?
Your tutorials are by far the best I have found on RUclips! Can you do more specifically on audio, maybe some more stuff beginning vloggers/filmmakers need to know? There is a lack of good videos on this topic, most videos just say "do this and do that" without explaining what all these confusing audio settings actually do, but your explanation really makes me understand what I am doing when I apply those settings, so I hope you will make more videos about this!
thank you veru much for this! the fact that your explains how the plug in works is everything, it really helps!!
You saved me with your custom preset, I was destroying my tracks trying to figure it out on my own. Thanks Matt!
Nice video Matt.. the preset is a great start, but i was expecting a bit more elaboration on some of the settings. In my case i have a number of interviews audio to edit and using the broadcast preset really bumped up the noise drastically. it actually sounds worse than the original. if you have any adivice or a video reference on how to use the compressor please let me know i would greatly appreciate that. Thank you!
That's the best tutorial I found on RUclips :) Thanks, Matt!
Quick time saving tip. Rather than changing the clip volume to keep levels around -3db you can change "Margin" to -3 in Multiband Compressor, right above attack and release.
Thanks! 😁
I have spent the last week scouring RUclips for a good audio tutorial and I am so glad I found your vid. Great tutorial and it was funny as well. Thank you sir.
Nice, this helps me keep my workflow in Adobe Premier, usually I'm exporting my videos to ProTools and doing the same process there!
Since everyone's voice is different i would ride the faders for each of the 4 sections of frequencies on the multiband compressor. So there is a only a touch of compression on each. That's the only other thing I would add because of the difference between a guy and girl's voice. If somebody uses the preset without checking the amount of compression its doing at each frequency it might be going too hard at certain frequencies or not at all.
As far as pops/bumps i just use a high pass filter on the EQ
Izotope has great plugins for fixing audio, like declick, denoise and dehum (ain't cheap tho)
This is a great for any type of project, and one the the biggest parts of a project!
Bad audio can mess up a video.
This tutorial for premier has been lacking in the youtube space, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tips Cesar! :)
This is a lifesaver! Thanks Matt! You're the beast in wedding filmmaking!
Great tutorial! I would say that the cheap studio monitors you suggested are actually better than the krk monitors. Add a sub and measuring mic with some room treatment and you have a killer studio you’ve upgraded over time. Again great video!
Dayumm how can you talk so much..........and still make so much sense and informative!!
This was the best audio tip I've watched ...and i have watched ALOT of them! Cheers!!!
Just joined your newsletter! I really enjoy your tutorials! You do a great job at helping people get started. Keep up the good work!
i've fallen in love with this man, FANTASTIC tutorial!
10/10 my man! Just Mind Blown. Definitely subscribing to your newsletter!! WOW
Matt, you're the man. Your tutorials have been such a great help. If you're ever in Utah and want to collaborate, hit me up!
Deal! 😁
Thank you for this my friend. New Premier Pro user (from iMovie) and was struggling to mix voice and audio since iMovie does is automatically. This was superrrr helpful.