Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 guide
10 How to work with audio © 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated
SmartMix
Sometimes the background music is loud and the dialogs in a clip are not audible. To ensure that the dialogs are
easily heard, the volume of the background music must be lowered. SmartMix enables automatic adjustment of the
volume of the background music (Figure 18). For best results, place dialog clips on the Audio 1 track or the
Narration track (foreground tracks) and music on the Soundtrack track (background track). Adobe Premiere
Elements analyzes clips on all foreground tracks for dialogs. Keyframes are then smartly/automatically created to
lower the volume level to ensure that the dialog in the foreground track is audible. SmartMix adjustments apply to
all audio clips on the Timeline, not just on the selected clip. When you use SmartMix on an audio track, keyframes
you applied previously on the Soundtrack are deleted.
Figure 18 SmartMixer panel
To use SmartMix:
1. Finish adding all audio elements to your project,
including:
• Audio from original video
• Narration
• Soundtracks (including SmartSound soundtracks)
2. In the Timeline or Sceneline, click the Audio Tools
menu and select SmartMix > Options (Figure 19).
The SmartMixer panel of the Mixer Options dialog box
opens (Figure 20). Here, you set each audio track as
foreground or background.
4. Set options for each track. For example, if you want the
narration always to be louder than the other tracks, set
Narration as Foreground (Figure 20) and Audio 1 and
Soundtrack to Background (where Audio 1 is the sound
attached to the video).
Figure 19 Audio Tools menu
Figure 20 Setting Narration as Foreground