Consider the difference it makes if you turn the sound off when watching a horror movie.
Without an ominous soundtrack, scenes that were scary a moment ago can seem like comedy.
Music works around many of our critical faculties and directly influences our emotions. In fact,
your body reacts to sound whether you want it to or not. For example, it’s normal for your heart
rate to be influenced by the beat of the music you’re listening to. Fast music tends to raise your
heart rate, and slow music tends to lower your heart rate. Powerful stuff!
In this lesson, you’ll begin by learning how to use the audio tools in Premiere Pro and then make
adjustments to clips and a sequence. You’ll also use the Audio Clip Mixer to make changes to
your volume “on the fly” while your sequence plays.
Setting up the interface to work with audio
Let’s begin by switching to the Audio workspace.
1. Open Lesson 10.prproj.
2. Save the project as Lesson 10 Working.prproj.
3. In the Workspaces panel, click Audio. Then double-click the Audio workspace name and
click Yes in the Confirm Workspace Reset dialog box. This is a convenient shortcut to reset
the workspace to the saved layout.Working in the Audio workspace
You’ll recognize most of the components of the Audio workspace from the video-editing
workspaces you’ve used. One obvious difference is that the Audio Clip Mixer is displayed in
place of the Source Monitor. The Source Monitor is still there; it’s just hidden right now,
grouped with the Audio Clip Mixer.
You can modify the appearance of timeline track headers to include an audio meter for each