How to Add a Movie Soundtrack with Adobe Premier Elements

A home movie is more enjoyable and effective with a good soundtrack. It is easy to add a music soundtrack to your video using Adobe Premier Elements

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Premier Elements
• MP3,MP4 or WAV music file
• Rights to use the file in your composition

1. 
   Scene Line View

   In SCENE VIEW, from the file menu, choose GET MEDIA and select files or folders. Browse for the correct music file and click OK. You will now see the file in the AVAILABLE MEDIA pallet. Select the file and with your mouse drag it to the correct place in the scene line.

2. 
   Timeline View

   Select TIMELINE and you will see your video and audio in the MY PROJECT area. Scroll through the various Audio channels until you see SOUNDTRACK.

3. 
   Sountrack view

   The yellow bar embedded in the soundtrack is the volume for the soundtrack, you can increase or decrease the volume by grabbing the yellow line with your mouse and moving it up or down.

4. 
   Fade controls

   The window to the upper left of the project window will allow to easily fade in or fade out the music. You can also add "grab points" on the yellow soundtrack bar to lower the volume and increase it in designated areas of the movie.

Tips & Warnings

• You may want to adjust the clip volume or eliminate the sound entirely when using a soundtrack. Scroll to the audio1 track, select the track and delete it or adjust the volume using the yellow bar for the audio track. Deleting the audio track will not affect the video.
• In the timeline view, you can crop the soundtrack by selecting the track at one end until you see a directional arrow, move your mouse in that direction to shorten the soundtrack. You may want to extend your fade out when doing this.
• Sometime you may have to zoom in on the timeline to properly edit the audio and video. This will not affect the timing of the movie, it will just make it easier to work with.
• Remember to save often

Resources

• Adobe Premier Elements

[Elitchka]

on 11/25/2007 Another very good article. I always wanted to try to add a music soundtrack to my video. Thank you