r/premiere

Hey guys, I've been trying to improve my audio workflow and wanted to see how you guys usually handle this.

I mostly edit YouTube videos and livestream content. For actual livestreams, the audio I receive is usually already mixed into a single track, while recorded footage can sometimes have separate audio tracks depending on how the streamer configured OBS. I'm also planning to ask streamers if they're able to record separate audio tracks, but for now I have to work with both situations.

Do you guys have some sort of "preset" or usual chain for cleaning up dialogue? For example, Hard Limiter, Parametric EQ, Dynamics, Denoise, etc.?

I'm also curious about audio levels. Do you follow any specific dB ranges for voice, SFX, music, etc., or do you mostly rely on your ears?

And what about LUFS? Do you actually check it during your workflow, or do you mostly just make sure everything sounds balanced and then export for YouTube?

Lastly, when checking the final audio, do you usually listen on headphones, speakers, or both?

I have absolutely no idea if i'm missing something glaringly obvious. I had exported an srt. for a colleague to grammar/spell check directly from prem and there have been a few changes made. I thought i'd be able to import it back in, but the .srt file is completely greyed out in the file browser. I can't even import the original .srt file.

I also tried exporting it as a .txt file to see if that worked but no luck. Any idea if i'm missing anything obvious? TIA

Hi All, I'm an infrequent Premiere user as an in-house creative position, I'm basically filling in for a lack of an in-house videographer and agency we recently canned.

I have a simple question that I've figured out in the past, but it's been TOO LONG since I've edited something to figure out again, I've looked for answers for the past 24 hours but cannot express it as the results I'm getting via google/youtube/ChatG aren't producing what I'm looking for :(

• I'm simply(?) trying to figure out how to increase the bounding box/canvas(?) when editing some animated lower-thirds text.
• That would be area of the inner-black box. This is so I can create longer phrases without changing font-sizes/scaling the text, that way I can stack some lower-thirds and have them look uniform, type-wise.

Any help? Thank you!

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Quick question

Where can I get the best plugins/templates for Premiere Pro for free? I searched online and on some subreddits out here, but I can't find many great suggestions. Maybe you know some website I can get them legit without paying a single penny or maybe you know other ways around ;). Thanks in advance!

I'm hesitant to try out v26 for one single reason, the new masking method, it used to be within the effects control panel, for those who've been using v26, how does the new method affect your workflow? do you think it's better now that you got used to it? or is v25 method still better? I'm afraid of fighting my muscle memory

I actually migrated back to Premiere (I was using it for Multicam still but Davinci for every other client) since my preferred auto captioning plug-in for Davinci got extremely bad and convoluted after an update and I really liked the auto-transcribe/caption options on the updated Premiere.

But now I'm having some annoying time consuming issues. I have to cut down things for social media and caption them (don't we all) and captioning is almost quick and painless.

But I'm at a crossroads.

I do a lot of tweaking so I just want transcripts of my new edits for captioning. So my new sequences get cut down, I separate each speaker's mic to a different track. I use "generate static transcript" to create a new source transcript for my social media edit. It properly separates my speakers into Speaker 1,2,3,etc. But I can only generate captions that give everything in the same style. Can't generate captions or just one speaker. Can't generate captions or everything but different text style for each speaker. Honestly I haven't found much of a benefit for the speaker distinction other than if I'm exporting a transcript for my producers.

I guess what I can start doing is duplicating sequences and muting audio tracks in order to get transcripts for each individual speaker and then generate captions on different sequences and copy over? I dont know it seems like there should be an easier solution. Anyone have any advice?

EDIT: I want to do this within Premiere, not looking for a plug-in. It's a small speed bump, I'm doing fine without it. It's just inconvenient and seems like it would be very easy to accomplish in Premiere alone.

As the title says, I had to export a very long clip of about 2 hours and some artifacts appeared at the end. Can I redo the export and just replace the respective fragments because the rendering time was about 14 hours and I wouldn't want to wait that long to re-export it from 0 or will the quality of the file suffer a lot?

I've searched all over for an answer. Let's say I have a 10 second clip. I want a 1 second snap zoom using Grow at 5 seconds. If I don't cut the clip at the 6 second mark, the result is a long, slow zoom that finishes at 10 seconds. I just want to be able to use Grow WITHIN a contiguous clip without cutting. Cutting requires tweaking the remaining 4 seconds of the clip to match the last frame of the snap zoom...and it's a hassle. I know I'm missing something simple. The grow duration can't be dependent on the length of the clip. I've experimented with the different properties with no luck. Thanks!

26.3.2

Mac Studio

Chip: Apple M1 Max

Total Number of Cores: 10 (8 performance and 2 efficiency)

Memory: 64 GB

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This is my first project I've edited using Premiere Pro, and as you can see by all of those magenta clips, a lot of it was done in After Effects. My main concern is regarding how I'm going to manage rendering all of this (besides patience). And yes, tons of this was done without using best practices, because honestly I still don't know them, which has exaggerated my problem.

[The attached image might have been removed, but the timeline is 1h20min and like 85% linked comps to After Effects with lengths between 3s-1min each

Probably 30-40 percent of this is non-ProRes mp4 (not sure the codec) baked into some of those after effects comps. That's my gameplay footage. The bottom track v1 is my background tracks. I have 4 background, 20 minutes each dynamic links, broken into random chunks an scattered all over the timeline where each full background comp would take probably over a day to render. The remainder of the dynamic links are motion graphic scenes. And one of the possibly worst offenders, a good chunk of this footage is 60fps whereas I long ago made my comp 59.94fps, so there is a mix between both framerates scattered throughout.

If you were given this timeline, how would you go about rendering it? Assuming its totally finished and doesn't need to be touched more, what would you do? I've heard rendering in After Effects and export replacing the clips in Premiere would help with speed, but if I'm basically done, should I just render/export directly from Premiere, in batches and stitched together?

When I started to render in After Effects, I saw a ton of nested precomps had potential to be rendered in full multiple times, and I'm hoping rendering in Premiere might "flatten" the compositions more and lead to an easier process. Additionally, because of the sheer amount of dynamic links, going through each comp in the file and juggling which precomps to render and all that hassle that I now have to deal with seems like an absolute pain that I'm hoping I can find a smart way to do most efficiently.

I have okay PC specs for rendering, but nothing that is meant for a project this heavy. RTX 4070, 32Gb RAM, Ryzen 7600X, and the entire project and source currently lives on an SSD but would be exported to my larger HDD.

Simple question for Adobe users:

When you put short sounds on captions or gestures (whooshes, hits, pops timed to words):

• Do you place them in Premiere on the timeline?
• Or in After Effects with the text layers?
• Or mix (design in AE, finish audio in PP)?

What’s the usual reason for your choice? Thanks.

When I add a transition (e.g. a slide/push) I always end up manually dragging a whoosh SFX on the audio track and nudging it until it lines up perfectly. It works but it's tedious, especially when you have a lot of cuts.

Is there a faster workflow to "pair" a sound effect to a transition so they snap together automatically, or at least a way to speed up the process?