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Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro and Audition Curated by chelsy hooper

If you’ve captured some audio through recording video that you need to use in your podcast in Audition, here are some resources to assist you. You can either use Premiere Pro to extract the audio and then make all your adjustments in Audition, or you can make audio adjustments in Premiere Pro, then extract the audio and bring it into Audition. You can also use the audio adjustments in Premiere Pro when working on a video project. Additionally, there are resources below for adjusting audio levels in Audition.

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How to create a new project in Premiere Pro

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How to extract audio from video using Premiere Pro

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Adjusting Audio in Premiere Pro

Basic Gain adjustments, basic EQ mixers:

Using the Parametric Equalizer (more refined adjustments):

Using a Compressor to even out audio:

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Adjusting Audio in Audition

You can also go to Window, Mixer and adjust track volumes and use the EQ by clicking the pencil icon in each track to adjust each track's levels.

Even out volume using Compressor:

Adjusting volume levels using Normalize and Speech Volume Leveler:

How to remove background noise, wind noise, etc.:

Using Parametric Equalizer in Audition (allows more control over various frequencies)

General beginner’s guide to Audition for podcasting, includes audio adjustments at end of video:

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Video and Audio Masterclass from Adobe

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