Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 guide

How to work with audio

At least half of your movie’s impact comes from its use of sound. Adobe Premiere Elements provides the tools, such

as the Audio Mixer and the Audio Meters, to create a high-quality sound mix. You can narrate clips or set beat

markers while previewing in real time. You can add a soundtrack to your movie, and trim it to the proper length, or

use SmartSound® soundtracks, which you customize to exactly fit your project. You can set the overall volume

levels of clips and the relative volume levels within and among them. Finally, you can remove unwanted noises and

add effects to the sounds in your movie.

Premiere Elements supports the following soundtrack file formats:

• Dolby AC-3 (.ac3)

• Macintosh Audio AIFF (.aif, .aiff)

• mp3 Audio (.mp3)

• MPEG Audio (.mpeg, .mpg, .mpa, .mpe, .m2a)

• QuickTime (.mov, .m4a)

• Windows Media (.wma)

• Windows WAVE (.wav)

Adding an audio soundtrack

To complement the sounds embedded in video clips and any narration you record, you can add audio clips to the

Soundtrack track visible in the Timeline or Sceneline. You may need to scroll down the audio portion of the

Timeline to see the Soundtrack. Video clips typically contain background music or recordings of environmental

sound.

To import audio and add a soundtrack:

1. Choose File > Get Media From > Files And Folders

2. Browse to the location of the audio file and click Open

(Windows) or Import (Mac OS).

The audio file appears in the project (Figure 1).

Figure 1 Audio file in project