How to Use the Audio Workspace in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro has almost as many options for editing sound as it does video. You can edit tracks, add effects and mix together as many mono, stereo, or 5.1 surround channels that your computer can store. You may import audio with different numbers of channels into the same project. Once you have imported video clips with audio or audio tracks into your project, you can begin working with them as you would video clips.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Your sequence of clips can contain any combination of Mono (one audio channel), Stereo (a left and right audio channel) and 5.1 (three front audio channels on the left, center, and right, two rear or surround audio channels on the left and right, and a low-frequency effects audio channel.)

2. The first thing you should try is dragging an audio clip into the Source Monitor. You will see waveforms of the audio clips and can trim them the same way you would a video clip, and then add it to the Timeline sequence.

3. You may need to adjust volume and balance settings, and you can do that in the Timeline, Effect Control panel or the Audio Mixer. To open the Audio Mixer, click the tab to the right of the Source Monitor and Effects Panel.

4. To add effects to an audio clip, expand the options in your Effects Panel next to Audio Effects. You can choose options for 5.1, Stereo, or Mono by expanding those options. Select an appropriate option, and drag it from the Effects Panel directly onto your audio track in the Timeline.

5. You may choose to use the preconfigured Audio workspace. To access it, go to your Window Menu at the top of your navigator, then Workspace, and then Audio.