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Audio
Last updated 11/30/2015
Monitor volume level while capturing
You can monitor audio levels while capturing DV or HDV footage.
1 If the Audio Meters panel is not open, select Window > Audio Meters.
2 Capture video from a DV or HDV source.
The Audio Meters panel displays the audio level for the captured footage.
Specify whether to play audio while scrubbing
By default Premiere Pro plays the audio when you scrub any clip or sequence containing audio in the Source Monitor,
Program Monitor, or the Timeline panel. You can change this setting if you prefer silent scrubbing.
1 Select Edit > Preferences > Audio (Windows), or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Audio (Mac OS).
You can assign a keyboard shortcut to the Preferences > Audio command. See Find keyboard shortcuts.
2 Check or deselect Play Audio While Scrubbing, depending on the option desired.
3 Click OK.
Adjust gain and volume
Gain generally refers to the input level or volume in clips. Volume generally refers to the output level or the volume in
sequence clips or tracks. You can set gain or volume levels to make levels more consistent among tracks or clips, or to
change the volume of a track or clip. Keep in mind, however, that if the level of an audio clip was set too low when it
was digitized, increasing the gain or volume might simply amplify noise. For best results, follow the standard practice
of recording or digitizing source audio at the optimum level; this practice allows you to concentrate on adjusting track
levels.
You use the Audio Gain command to adjust the gain level for one or more selected clips. The Audio Gain command is
independent of the output level settings in the Audio Track Mixer and Timeline panels, but its value is combined with
the track level for the final mix.
You can adjust the volume for a sequence clip in the Effect Controls or Timeline panels. In the Effect Controls panel,
you use the same methods to adjust the volume that you use to set other effect options. It’s often simpler to adjust the
Volume effect in the Timeline panel.
You control track output levels in the Audio Track Mixer or the Timeline panel. Although you control track levels
primarily through the Audio Track Mixer, you can also do so using audio track keyframes in the Timeline panel.
Because track keyframes represent mixer automation settings, they affect output only if automation is set to Read,
Touch, or Latch.
You can adjust the gain for an entire sequence with the Normalize Master Track command.
Normalize one or more clips
1 Do one of the following:
• You can adjust the gain of a master clip so that all instances of the clip added to the Timeline panel have the same
gain level. Select the master clip in the Project panel.
• To adjust the gain of just one instance of a master clip already in a sequence, select the clip in the Timeline panel.
• To adjust the gain of more than one master clip or clip instance, select the clips in a Project panel or sequence. In
a sequence, Shift-click the clips to select them. In a Project panel, Shift-click to select contiguous clips, or Ctrl-
click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select non-contiguous clips.