The document discusses various methods for mixing audio in Adobe Premiere Elements, including: dragging audio clips underneath video clips; viewing and editing audio waveforms in expert mode; using audio meters to avoid clipping; unlinking audio and video to edit them separately; adjusting volume levels using audio mixers and clip adjustments; and reducing treble to lower high pitches.

1. Audio Mixing
James Evans

2. Adobe Premiere Elements does not
assume that the user wants the
audio clip of the video clip over the
top of the video when it is imported
in, so it places it after the video
clip. However, we would need it
over the video clip. To do this very
easily you could click on quick mode
and simply drag it underneath. You
can also trim, split and change the
audio in quick mode, however you
can get much more out of the audio
if you are in the expert view.

3. A benefit of expert mode is that you can actually
see the waveform of the audio, therefore you can
see where something is happening by the peaks of
the audio waves. However, another soundtrack
has been added here but you cannot see the
waveforms due to the fact it is collapsed. To
expand the soundtrack, click on the arrow by the
side of it, as shown to the left. Now we can see the
waveforms of the soundtrack, as indicated below.

4. A main issue regarding audio is that it cannot be
too loud otherwise it will crackle and sound
ineffective. To edit this, click on the “Windows”
tab at the top to bring up a drop down menu and
select “Audio Meters”. This will bring up the
audio meters for the clip and when you play the
clip, you will be able to se how much sound is
being emitted. If the sound reaches the “zero” line
then the squares at the top of the meters go red
and then the audio is much too loud. This is
shown by the meter to the left. This will have to
be edited.

5. To split the clip, right click on the main
click and select “Unlink Audio and Video”.
This makes the audio and video now two
separate objects which can be moved
around and changed and so on. To cut the
audio at a specific point, move the slider to
the designated point and click the small
scissor button. Now you can edit the audio
even more independently.

6. To change the volume of the first
audio clip, drag the yellow bar up
and down to change the volume. In
this case the volume needs to be
lowered, so the bar was dragged to
the bottom of the audio.

7. To also lower the audio, click on the tools
button on the bottom right of the screen and
scroll up to the “Audio Mixer” button. This
brings up a box which has Audio 1,
Narration and Soundtrack mixers to enable
you to change the sound. You can reduce the
sound of each part of audio by dragging the
slider down to the intended volume.

8. Click on the audio and then click
on “Adjustments” in the top right
corner. This brings up this menu
which can adjust the volume. To
reduce the higher pitched tones,
click on “Treble” and bring the
slider to the left.

9. This concludes how
to mix the audio in a
clip in a number of
different ways.