How to Level Audio in Premiere Pro

Level audio in Premiere Pro is a critical point of your editing process. You want to make sure all the dialogue, music, or voiceover has the correct level or volume.

It's easy to change this clip by clip by raising or lowering the audio attached to each clip.

But an easier option is normalizing all peaks to a certain number. -3 dB is usually good for this.

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[Filmmakingmentor]

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[leonardermel]

Much better and easier than most other videos! This tip combined with the essential audio functions for dialog, background noise, etc. makes audio editing super easy without spending too much time

[kinovea]

This is really great. The only issue I've found is that if I have one high peak somewhere random in the middle of a clip, then this whole clip will be lower than the others. For example when recording a screencast I hit my keyboard for a few seconds and it was louder than my voice normally is, so the voice for the whole section was much lower than in the rest of the video.

[butteronus]

This was really useful but another tip you can do is to check your stat's for nerds (right click your video in the middle) and look at where it says volume / normalization and look far right from that and you see it says content loudness -11.3db, You want it to be near -0db. To fix that I recommend this video "How to Set Perfect AUDIO Levels for YOUTUBE in Premiere Pro CC! [Shortcut]" - Just search that perfect and it will help. Not alot of people knows this for some reason so if you made another video talking about it, It could shed some knowledge

[Mipon_en]

2023 and still the best explanation about this topic. Thank you.

[skatmanscott]

I used to do a lot of sound editing using Adobe audition and always wanted to get the "perfect" audio, so I spent a lot of time learning and applying hard limiters, compressors, threshold, attack, release, different filters, denoisers, etc. It wasn't long before I realized the vast majority of the people couldn't tell the difference, or didn't care about the difference between audio that's been edited for 3 hours on Adobe audition vs audio that's been edited in 20 minutes using premiere pro.

I'm sure a lot of people can probably relate with stressing out and over the complicating things, applying an unnecessary amount of time in the wrong areas, etc. This was a helpful video, strait to the point! Thanks

[howiej]

dB stands for decibel - that's how many decibel (a measure of audio) you're raising or lowering.

[LoktionBanger]

GOOD VIDEO,
dB stands for decibel (i had to correct you as a music producer myself)

[KathBorup]

Finally a video about audio in premiere pro that makes sense (for a beginner)! Thanks for giving a benchmark re: the audio meter and what to aim for for digalog bg music

[carloschavez]

This is the best tutorial I have seen around the web! It helped me immensely with my work, I soo much appreciate you doing this for us.
Thank you very much!!

[JeffKirkley]

Great video, however, wanted to mention that dB does not stand for "decimal points". It stands for decibel - which is a unit of measurement for audio.

[ocult]

i Can't Believe there Was A lot of videos Explaining the same thing..
But i just got it working with you bro.. Thank you so much!!

[niniko]

Thank you so very much for this video! As a beginner in Premiere Pro I've been struggling with the audio settings for my voiceovers. Your tips made is so much easier to understand 🙏

[GG_Dreamcast]

This video has been so helpful after searching and searching, and finding many videos which don't help. Well done.

[WhatashameMaryJane]

There's surprisingly not much content about how to edit audio out there. This video gave simple tips but definitely very helpful.

[intentionalliving]

This was super helpful as I was thinking I had to adjust each clip. Massive time saver and my audio sounds great. Thank you!!!

[ashtontaylor-burns]

Thanks man, this was really helpful! Best video I've seen on this... This should have way more views!

[DougLarsonVideo]

After trying it, it is important to note that any clip where the speaker is talking at a low volume will be boosted way to high.

[Abadani]

Dear Saj Adibs dB is for Decibel not Decimal. dB is the unit of amplification or amplification factor + is gain and - is loss. Farsi baladi?
I am looking for ways for small adjustments in the audio level (fine-tuning) to make sure when going to a new clip, the audio transition is easy on the ears.
Sepaas.

[Rob_eightmedia]

DB stands for Decibels.. not decimal points