Ryan Patch
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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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Hey Kevin –
I don’t know how you’ve tried contacting Adobe, but 6pm on a sunday night may not be the best time to get responses. They are on these forums as well as Adobe’s forums and you can ususally rouse someone if you give them a day or so and no user helps you out.
I would submit to you that the reason you couldn’t see the audio at first is because it was conforming. Check out this thread for more on that: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/919222. Because it was an hour long file, it takes a little while. Sounds like you were able to get it to play.
It seems like you figured out the “Breakout to Mono” command to split tracks that are imported as Stereo. I am not sure if there’s anything wrong with your install, but it definitely should be able to work with compressed audio fine – that’s what it’s doing when it “conforms” the audio – it’s converting audio to an uncompressed format, so it should be no different if it’s compressed audio or just raw WAV data.
I have seen instances where, if I mess with the original file at the same time that Premiere is conforming it, it will wind up skipping in the same way you described. It sounds like you might have been doing that. And because the erroneous conform data is generated, Premiere relies on that instead of the original audio file. I’ve discovered that I can trick Premiere to not do this by 1. Taking audio file offline, 2. navigating to original file location and append a _1 to filename or something, and 3. RE-linking media. It thinks it’s a new version, so it re-conforms audio.
This is a bit of a pain, but you’re dealing with a little bit of an odd problem… I’ve only seen it twice in the last 3-4 years of the Adobe “conform” methodology.
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Yes, exactly Cassidy. You rock.
I agree that this is not a small problem – it’s a large problem for houses that rely on a multiple-editor framework for projects.
Given Adobe’s insistance that they are committed to professionals, and not just the middle-of-the-road prosumer market, I have hope that a workable solution to this should be implemented soon. Cassidy’s ideas are incredible.
Again, please help out and go submit a feature request if this is something that you are concerned about as well.
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You can use the SHIFT key as a modifier on your J and L keys to move in 1/10th increments of speed. So, if you’re looking to playback dialogue quickly, perhaps hit L once, then do a couple of SHIFT+Ls, then you’ll be lovin life.
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Chris just answered your question. Apparently it was broken. Now, you’ll have to learn to double-click like a man.
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That’s so Weird. Can you screenshot it and post here?
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This is what we were all doing in 5.5 when only AE had the stabilizer. Worked fine.
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#1 –
To get rid of one track, you can right-click and hit “unlink” and then delete track. Or, with the pointer selected, you can ALT-CLICK the clip you want to kill and it will select just this clip, and you can delete it. If you want to delete a whole track, just right click on the track title and you’ll have the option to delete it.
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If you’re trying to do an insert edit, and you have a source clip loaded in the source window, the # of audio tracks in the file will coorispond to the # of patch thingeys that come up on the far left side of your timeline. If you’re only getting one, perhaps the 2 tracks are being treated as one stereo track and it wants to patch to one stereo track? In that case, you might consider hilighting the clip in your project window and selecting CLIP>AUDIO>Breakout to Mono. This will extract both your mono tracks into the project window, and you can place them individually.
In regards to your razor blade question, that’s odd – you should be able to razor a clip anywhere just like FCP. No premiere weirdness… this may be your weirdness.
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I am on Premiere CS6 and no changes have been made.
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Export XML. Re-import. This always happens with Adobe products version to version.