Classroom in a book

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Drag Music 5.1.wav to the sequence, and Adobe Premiere Pro adds a 5.1 audio 
track to accommodate this new audio clip type.
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Mute the Audio track containing the Music Stereo clip by clicking the speaker 
button on the left side of the track label.
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Drag Channel Volume from the Audio Effects > 5.1 folder to the Music 5.1 clip.
Channel Volume lets you control the volume level for each of the six channels in 
a 5.1 surround sound clip and both channels of a stereo clip. The default setting 
for each channel is 0 dB, meaning no change from the original volume.
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Play the clip, and drag the sliders for each channel to experiment with this effect.
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 Note:
If you don’t 
hear all six channels, it’s 
because you need to 
change the 5.1 Mixdown 
setting. Choose 
Edit > Preferences > 
Audio (Windows) 
or Premiere Pro > 
Preferences > Audio 
(Mac OS), and change 
5.1 Mixdown Type to 
Front + Rear + LFE.

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LESSON 13
Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
Looking at one more VST plug-in
Let’s check out one more audio effect. This one is guaranteed to make your head 
spin. Drag MultibandCompressor to the Music 5.1 clip. You’ll need to dramatically 
expand the Effect Controls panel to see its parameters (it might help to put the 
Effect Controls panel in a floating window).
The MultibandCompressor’s purpose is to narrow the dynamic range for up to 
three sets of frequency ranges, usually to add “punch” to music or speech. This is 
what sound editors use to make those Saturday car sale advertisements you hear 
on the radio sound like they were produced by a 6'8" body builder.
Editing keyframes by using the clip effect menu
You might have noticed that tucked away along the top edge of all clips—audio and 
video—is a pop-up menu of all the effects applied to a selected clip. You can find it 
just to the right of the clip name.
You might not be able to see the clip effect menu in all instances. The audio or 
video track needs to be in its expanded view. To do that, click the disclosure 
triangle to the left of the track name. If that does not reveal it, the clip is not wide 
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 Note:
Explaining the 
MultibandCompressor’s 
parameters could take 
a full lesson (refer to 
Adobe Premiere Pro 
Help for parameter 
details). Instead, note 
that it offers a collection 
of presets accessed 
by clicking the button 
shown here.

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enough. Zoom in on the Timeline to expand the width of the clip and reveal the 
clip effect menu.
For audio clips, the header is always Volume: Level. For video clips, it’s Opacity: 
Opacity (despite Motion residing on the top of that pop-up menu). Every time you 
add an effect—video or audio—Adobe Premiere Pro adds that effect (along with a 
list of its parameters) to the bottom of that clip’s effect menu.