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Audio compression in CS6
As one of the many making the change over from FCP to CS6, there are some “I really need to do this all the time” in my projects. Doing lots of talking heads I’m always using compression on my interviewee’s audio tracks. This was built into the Audio FX in FCP, is there such an animal in PPr CS6? Any insights would be appreciated.
Cheers,
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OK, so if you have the accelerated, 32bit & YUV boxes checked, no audio filters appear. Uncheck them all and viola — audio filters. This is going to be an exciting journey;-)
Cheers,
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Hey Jim,
The search filter is one level of limiting the effects shown.
Using the Icon Filters as you noticed drills down the filter again. And yes these guys only show video based effects/transitions.
– JB 🙂
Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
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Hey guys –
Welcome to Premiere. Let me blow your mind.
Yes, you can find audio filters in the effects panels… but that’s not the most efficient way to compress interview audio, if you’re doing it for a whole timeline (I do this all the time for interviews as well).
Open up the Audio Mixer window (a window so useful I have it open all the time.) There’s a small triangle in the upper-left corner. Twirl it open. This will open the effects and plugins rack. Click on a little arrow for the track that you’re interested in adding compression to, and hit “Dynamics”. Double click on the plugin and you can adjust the settings in real time, as your timeline plays. Notice that you can put compression on individual tracks, or on the master track. Also, you can experiment with adding submix tracks and routing individual tracks through them to put effects on a group of tracks but not others. It’s heavenly.
So, this is a little bit of a paradigm shift from FCP where audio effects were all clip-based, but i have grown to LOVE the track-based audio effects. So much more efficient. I edit docs, so I always keep my Lav on 1 channel, boom on channel 2, and then room L and R. I do specific things to the lav and boom tracks that apply across clips over the entire project, which is a huge timesaver! Then, I run all 4 interview channels through a submix and compress that.
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You are a lifesaver man! I started a Creative Cow account just to tell you that 🙂 I just started using PP cc today and have been burning out my eyeballs with tutorials. I come from the audio engineering world, so finding this mixer and effects racks brings me back onto my turf 🙂 Loving PP so far. Very intuitive!
Thanks again for your post!
Kevin
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