Learn to master the art of "ducking" in Premiere Pro, a technique that generates automatic keyframes from one audio type to another. This skill is incredibly useful in scenarios where you need to balance dialogue with a music track.
Key Insights
- Ducking is a technique in Premiere Pro that automatically creates keyframes from one audio type to another, allowing for a seamless transition between two audio tracks.
- The process involves adjusting the Premiere Pro Preferences Audio to a higher setting, which instructs Premiere Pro on how to balance the two audio types.
- By selecting the audio and then the words "dialogue" and "music" in the Essential Sound Panel, you can make the ducking option available.
- The sensitivity, duck amount, and fades can be adjusted to fine-tune the process. This helps you control how quickly or gradually the volume shifts from one type to another.
- Generating keyframes allows you to define the ramping of the keyframes, which affects how the volume changes over time.
- Noble Desktop provides an in-depth tutorial on ducking, a useful tool for anyone looking to create a harmonious balance between dialogue and music in their video projects.
In this video, we'll go over a lesson on Audio Ducking. We'll automatically generate keyframes on a music track to easily balance dialogue and music.
Video Transcription
Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today, we're looking at ducking in Premiere Pro. Ducking is automatically generated keyframes from one audio type to another. We are going to duck music against dialogue, so when there is no dialogue (like right here), the music plays. When there is dialogue, the music will lower.
The first thing to do when you are working with ducking is to adjust the Premiere Pro Preferences Audio, setting a higher number. This tells Premiere Pro what audio type is being ducked against what other audio type.
We can select the whole audio or just the audio, and click on the word "dialogue" in the Essential Sound Panel. Then, select the word "music". Now, we see the word ducking ready for us to use. We can check ducking and adjust the sensitivity, duck amount, or fades.
Generating keyframes defines how much of a ramping of the keyframes you are looking at. It can go from low volume to higher volume gradually or less gradually. The duck amount can be increased for less or more.
Ducking can be a great solution, particularly if you have a lot of dialogue that you need to deliver quickly with music. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson in ducking in Premiere Pro Audio. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.