audio imports too hot quite often

[Andy Field]

Typically recorded music is compressed and normalized so the peaks stay high…when you import you can select all your music clips before editing….use the gain command (search in your keyboard shortcuts for gain and assign it a keyboard shortcut if you’d like) and lower it by 6 to 10db….when you edit, the loudness and distortion shouldn’t be there.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Paul Neumann]

My workflow for CD or mp3 imports: Import, highlight them all in the Project Bin, hit G, enter -10.

[Tim Morris]

I’m having the exact same problem, not only with music files but some older video clips. So far nobody has an answer … to lower the volume BEFORE you import.

I know this post is 5 years old, lol, did you ever figure it out? thanks

[Tad Newberry]

Hi Tim,

Nope…i never got a resolution. It’s weird…the music clips don’t really SOUND like they are crushed at the peaks all that much, but i’m just assuming when their waveforms look like that, they’ve got to be at least a little sub-par. You might try Paul’s reply (from 5 years ago), but it doesn’t seem to affect the actual importing level, rather only modifying the level once it’s in the bin.

[Bill Celnick]

Years ago I attended a workshop given by Larry Jordan when I was still working with FCP7 – he suggested normalizing music in a video timeline to -4.5 db, so usually when about to work with a new track I’ll bring it in to Audition first, normalize it, and convert sample rates there, then import into Premiere.

When you say “crushed” at the top, are we talking about flat peaks that look like they’ve been run through a hard limiter, or sound that was clipped and run through a declipper filter?