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 the 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 SmartSound

• 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 ...

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