Chapter 9. Working with Sound

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; create, add, and modify soundtracks; and control the volume levels within clips. The project in this lesson helps you explore the basics of working with audio. You’ll create a background music track, adjust the volume of an audio clip, add sound effects, add a narration clip, and mix the audio for maximum effect. Specifically, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create a custom-length background music track with SmartSound

  • Add narration

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

  • Adjust the volume of an audio track ...

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