Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Classroom in a Book®

9. Working with Sound

Lesson overview

The sound you use has a big impact on your movies. Adobe Premiere Elements provides you with the tools to narrate clips while previewing them in real time; to create, add, and modify soundtracks; and to control volume levels within clips. The project in this lesson helps you explore the basics of working with audio.

Specifically, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a custom-length background music track with music scores

• Add narration and normalize the volume of the narration

• Adjust volume and gain

• Use Smart Mix to automatically optimize the volume of your background music track and narration

• Adjust the volume of an audio track with and without keyframes

• Use the Audio Mixer

• Apply audio ...