Adobe Premiere Questions

[Jonny M]

Just a couple of questions on using Premiere for you pros:

Can I do video rate enveloping (slowing the video down over a certain section then resuming to normal speed when I'm done?)

and

Audio volume level enveloping. I wan't to quieten my soundtrack down while speech is happening, and resume the original volume afterwards.

Should be easy but I have no idea how to do it. Using Premiere Pro 1.5

Thanks

[Jonny M]

Managed to figure those two out an hour or so ago , but have another question - setting keyframes in the audio volume level is controlled by the mouse. Can I type in a number for the dB I wan't, or even nudge the marker up a bit? It's hard to get all the "low" volume parts at the same level.

[subucni]

when you have the clip highlighted on the timeline, assuming you are using a dual monitor (clip window and project window) click on the "effects controls" tab next to the name of the clip in the clip window, on here you should have "audio effects" click on the arrow next to "volume" to give you more options, from here you should be able to skip from one keyframe to the next using the 2 arrows either side of the keyframe marker. and use the slide gauge to help with accuracy of setting volume settings for each keyframe.

Or alternatively when you have no keyframes marked out on the orange volume line you could use the same volume section under audio effects to bring the entire level of the clip down in one go (or with no keyframes marked try using the pen tool if you don't need to be so accurate), and then all you have to do is mark a keyframe near the beginning and the end and set the start and the end of the clip back to normal volume. so that the clip will fade out at the beginning and back up again at the end of the speech

Another thing you may not have spotted is that if you right click the audio keyframes you can set in what way you want to have the sound fade in and out of that point, i.e slow to fade in to that sound point and then fast to fade out from it.

Hope thats what you want, let me know if thats not what you were looking for.


:edit:

This might help explain

[Jonny M]

That makes sense, but on my audio track I have volume listed under fixed effects, and volume listed under audio effects. I cannot delete it out of fixed effects, and it appears to be overriding whatever's set in audio effects.

Any ideas?

[Jonny M]

http://www.marlboroughs.plus.com/ima...ere_volume.jpg

Better describes it.

[subucni]

Hmmm, strange, never seen that before but then i am using premiere pro 1.0 not 1.5.

Maybe thats one of the things they changed in 1.5 maybe they moved the volume control from audio effects and into fixed effects. Did you actually add volume as an audio effect to the clip because maybe that would explain why you have the volume effect showing twice, because you don't actually need to add the effect to the clip. If you did then try clearing the volume under audio effects not fixed effects. if that one disappears then they have moved it to under fixed effects, so thats the one to use to make the adjustments instead of under audio effects like i said before.

[Jonny M]

Managed to get it working now, thanks Don't have the cool "easy curve in" options that you have, but instead get full bezier control, which I guess is better.

[subucni]

Glad to hear you got it sorted mate. I'm still learning with premiere pro myself, it's so much different from 6.0 and 6.5

Great tutorials here by the way

http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/