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Mobius Strip
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August 30, 2017
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Are there audio adjustment layers, or a better way to do this?

  • August 30, 2017
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Hi all.

One thing I do very, very frequently is cut music to video and need it to end on a beat. When I cut the music off at the end, I apply reverb to the last note or drum hit or whatever so it rings out and fades away in a polished manner.

I can't do this directly in the Premiere timeline, because even if I chop an audio event in the timeline right before the last note (to make that note a separate event) and then apply reverb to it, the reverberation won't continue past the end of the event. But I guess if I could put a reverb layer above it and have it start at the last note and continue for a few seconds, that'll do it.

Can anyone suggest another way? As it stands, I wind up having to open the audio in Audition or something else and manually editing the waveform and baking in the effect. That's pretty limiting, and tedious when you need to make adjustments afterward.

Thanks!

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Fuzzyballs24
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April 5, 2018

Instead of clipping the end of the song, and having that reverberation get cut off, use the keyframes to drastically lower the volume and it'll fade out like you want. 

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Mobius StripAuthor
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April 6, 2018

Thanks, but I don't think that will work.  The volume reduction would also apply to the echo, instead of letting it reverberate away.

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MHoecker
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February 21, 2018

I have done this same thing, and the best way I've found to do it within Premiere is still a bit of a process, but gets good results, so here goes

  1. Chop the tail off your song where you want it to start ringing out. 
  2. Add a blank title slide to the video track above the audio clip that extends longer than the audio track as far as you want the reverb to last.
  3. Nest that blank title and your audio tail into a new sequence.
  4. Add a full, long reverb effect to that nested sequence and maybe crossfade from the previous part of the song into this reverb tail, and if need be crossfade it out at the end (if the reverb goes too long.  Have often found that easier than sitting there tweaking the reverb settings to get the right time for the decay.)

Voila... easy!  Lol.  Maybe not very simple, but once you do it, it's not too hard or long to reproduce and it works!

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Mobius StripAuthor
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February 21, 2018

MHoecker  wrote

I have done this same thing, and the best way I've found to do it within Premiere is still a bit of a process, but gets good results, so here goes

Thanks!  While we clearly shouldn't need that rigamarole, it's an interesting workaround. I'll try it.

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Richard M KnightCommunity Expert
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August 31, 2017

Have you tried adding reverb in the track mixer?

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Mobius StripAuthor
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February 21, 2018

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Richard+M+Knight  wrote

Have you tried adding reverb in the track mixer?

No, because that would add reverb to everything in the track, wouldn't it? The reverb needs to be applied only to the very end of the clip.

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Meg The Dog
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August 31, 2017

Here is a quick and sloppy demo of one way to do it in Premiere by adding a track that carries the reverb only:

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    Mobius StripAuthor
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    February 21, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Meg+The+Dog  wrote

    Here is a quick and sloppy demo of one way to do it in Premiere by adding a track that carries the reverb only:

    Very informative!  Thanks for taking the time to do that.  Good info about the submix for this or other purposes.

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    excited_Genie16B8
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    August 31, 2017

    I think Audition is the best (only?) tool for this one.

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