If you want to lower it slightly more still, go ahead and click the amount that it ducks and then click ‘generate keyframes.’ This will generate keyframes so that it lowers the volume of the dialogue. Select ‘ducking’ and make sure the dialogue icon is selected at the left-hand corner and then click ‘generate keyframes’. Let's say our music track is way too loud, then first, we need to click ‘music’ in the essential sound panel. Now you can adjust your music so that it sounds natural and isn't overpowering or too soft. Then, with all the dialogue still selected – go to the bottom of the essential sound panel and you can adjust the volume for all the clips all at once. This makes all your dialogue roughly the same loudness. Underneath the loudness section, click ‘auto-match’. Go ahead and select all your dialogues and then click ‘dialogue’ in the essential sound panel. The first thing you’d want to do is go to your window and open up the essential sound panel. This is different from the audio clip mixer, so go to the top in Premiere Pro, and you'll be able to find the audio track mixer if it's not already in your panels. Using the audio track mixer in Premiere Pro, you can see how loud the audio is on a specific track. Aim to have your dialogue at around -12dB and adjust the volume, so it averages around there. Set your dialogue and adjust the music accordingly. Now, when it comes to setting proper music levels in your films, the answer is pretty simple. Louder isn't always better it’s rather about balancing your dialogue, music, and sound effects. A good rule of thumb is to keep your entire project with all the audio under -6dB. More specifically, you’d want to stay a little bit below it. Try to steer clear from hitting the red part as much as possible. If you're looking at your audio meters and it's continuously hitting 0dB and lighting up red, that means you hit the limit, and your audio is starting to distort.
There's only so much audio you can add in before it starts to clip and sound distorted. The main thing to understand with audio is that it’s like a box. Luckily, over the years, I've learned a few tips and tricks that should help you get the perfect levels for your videos. Tips for nailing the volume in your videos Sometimes everything would be too quiet, and other times it would be way too loud so that you couldn't hear the dialogue happening at all. Do you often find yourself struggling with deciding how loud the music should be in your videos? In this blog post, Ben Hess – in collaboration with Epidemic Sound and Adobe Stock – will help you to get it just right.įor such a long time, I struggled with figuring out how loud my music and dialogues should be when editing videos.