Audio inside of Premiere Pro.

[LitlBrutha22]

Okay so I was recently assigned to finish a project that was started by someone else at the organization I volunteer for.  The other person was in charge of editing the video and audio that was taken of an interview and add B-roll to it.  She did not edit the audio before she started cutting the video.  So now, instead of having one continuous piece of audio, I have many tiny pieces of audio that were taken in the same recording. And they all sound like garbage.  I don't want to have to go through each piece of audio.  And I don't want to start from the beginning.  Is there a simpler, faster way to edit the audio?  Does that make sense? If I need to explain this in a different way I can.

[Meg The Dog]

Not sure I understand your situation. You might want to take another try at explaining it.

Not sure what this means:

litlbrutha22  wrote

She did not edit the audio before she started cutting the video.

Why would you cut audio before picture?

or this:

So now, instead of having one continuous piece of audio, I have many tiny pieces of audio that were taken in the same recording.

Yes, that is how you edit an interview. Why do you expect to have one continuous piece of audio if there are edits in the interview?

Also:

I don't want to have to go through each piece of audio.

To do what with the audio? EQ or remove noise or add reverb or adjust gain?

MtD

[LitlBrutha22]

I am wanting to remove noise and echo and adjust the gain of the audio. I would have preferred to do this before she cut it, that way I wouldn't have to make all these changes to a bunch of little clips of audio. I would rather make the changes to one long clip of audio and then cut it.  Does that make more sense?

[John T Smith]

Since a project file is simply the commands you give Premiere Pro to do things on the timeline, for future export to a new file, your original audio file SHOULD still be there... unchanged

[BNC10a]

Perhaps, you could send the project to Audition, perform the desired eq, echo removal, etc. on the track and then save it back to Premiere.

Or, if you prefer to work in Premiere, you can also copy the effects from one clip (once audio fx are added) then select all the others you want and paste it them all at once. Then just make minor adjustments to each as needed.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Open the original audio file in Audition and clean it up.  Save As to a new file with a new name.

In PP, perform a Replace on the audio clip in the bin to the newly saved file from Audition.

[BNC10a]

I think Jim's idea is perfect if you need to make different fixes to the audio in different places. Never thought of that.

Yeah, I thought of your idea, Jpooley_Hearst, after I posted but since it it gave the same result I didn't update. Not sure it would fix the audio the way he wants unless he just wanted to blanket affect the track.

I do all of my audio work in Nuendo so I was just throwing out some ideas. 

[Guest]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the functionality specifically intended for this purpose... the Audio Track Mixer allows you to apply an effect to an entire track of your Sequence.