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Adobe Premiere Pro Help Mixing Audio
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Read Reads the track’s automation settings and uses them to control the track during
playback. If a track has no settings, adjusting a track option (such as volume) affects the
entire track uniformly. If you adjust a property for a track set to Read automation, then
when you stop adjusting it, the value returns to where it was before the current
automated changes were recorded. The rate of return is determined by the Automatch
Time audio preference.
Write Records adjustments you make to any automatable track settings that are not set
to Safe During Write, and creates corresponding track keyframes in the Timeline window.
Write mode writes automation as soon as playback starts, without waiting for a setting to
change. You can modify this behavior using the Switch to Touch After Write command in
the Audio Mixer window menu. When Switch to Touch After Write is on, all tracks set to
Write mode switch to Touch mode after playback stops or a playback loop cycle
completes.
Latch Identical to Write, except that automation does not start until you begin to adjust a
value, and the value remains where it was when you stopped adjusting it.
Touch Identical to Write, except that automation does not start until you begin to adjust a
value. When you stop adjusting a property, its value returns to where it was before the
current automated changes were recorded. The rate of return is determined by the
Automatch Time audio preference.
If you want to alter automation settings for some properties while leaving other
properties unchanged, use the Safe During Write command on the context menu for a
property. This option prevents that property from being edited when Write automation
mode is on. When you set a property to Safe During Write, that property is protected
across all tracks in a sequence.
For information about automating track settings using the Timeline window, see “Working
with keyframes in the Timeline window” on page 222.
To automate track properties over time using the Audio Mixer window:
1 In the Audio Mixer window or Timeline window, set the current time to the point where
you want to start recording automation changes. In the Audio Mixer window, you can set
the current time at the top left corner of the window.
2 In the Audio Mixer window, choose an automation mode from the automation options
menu at the top of each track you want to automate.
3 If needed, prevent any property from being affected by the Write automation mode by
right-clicking the property and selecting Safe During Write from the menu that appears.
4 Click the Play button in the Audio Mixer window to start automation. You can also
click the Loop button to play the program in a continuous loop or click the Play In To Out
button to play from the In point to the Out point.
5 As the audio plays back, adjust any automatable properties.
6 To stop automation, click the Stop button .
7 To preview changes, reset the current time to the beginning of your changes, and click
the Play button
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