Linking Audio to Visuals and Applying effects P4 (d)

Importing Footage and replacing the audio:

When I first imported my footage the audio from the footage would play over my music track, to remove this error I initially did the following;

1. Find the clip that had an audio track and select the audio.

2. Right click the footage and click unlink, this splits the audio from the video allowing you to edit them individually.

3. This then allowed me to select the audio track on its own and delete it.

However this method consumed too much time and I found an alternative which was to place the music track in audio layer 2 and then mute layer 1 which contained the footage audio.


Audio 1 on:

Audio 1 Muted:

Editing the visuals to link with the beat:

One of the most important aspects of creating a music video is ensuring that the visuals link well with audio as this can improve the feel of the video and make montages far more dramatic, one way of achieving this is using jump cuts on the beat of the audio. This method is much more professional than just placing clips randomly over a music track.

Audio Mixer:

In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can edit audio, add effects to it, and mix as many tracks of audio in a sequence as your computer system can handle. 

In the Audio Track Mixer, you can adjust settings while listening to audio tracks and viewing video tracks. Each Audio Track Mixer track corresponds to a track in the timeline of the active sequence and displays the Timeline audio tracks in an audio console layout. You can rename a track by double-clicking its name. You can also use the Audio Track Mixer to record audio directly into a sequence’s tracks.

Sound Effects:

Another one of premieres features is the effects controls panel that allow you to make adjustments to the audio tracks volume, this can be used to create fade in and out effects by key framing