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OritL-YeshAvira
OritL-YeshAvira
Participant
April 24, 2018
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How can I mute audio on source panel?

  • April 24, 2018
  • 9 replies
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I'm going through rashes source panel & need to view many clips & fast.

Sound is not important at this moment & I wish to mute premier all together (still don't have timeline) and listen to music from other source along side - Thus muting computer is not an option.

How can I do it???

Thank you

Orit 

    Correct answer Averdahl
    @Edwon wrote:

    unticking  "Play audio while scrubbing" only disables audio while scrubbing! I want to disable ALL audio coming from the source panel. How do you do this?

     

    If Windows, right click on the speaker icon down right and open the Volume Mixer and click the Mute button for Premiere Pro. I imagine that it should be able to do on a Mac as well.

     

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    Evan Raymond Spitzer
    Participant
    January 13, 2023

    I know this is possibly a non-helpful answer, but honestly, the simplest solution I have found is just to listen to your music on your phone and mute your computer. When you're ready for the sounds of the footage, switch your headphones to your computer and you're good to go. 

     

    This works for me at least!

    Raj Jain
    Raj Jain
    Participant
    October 10, 2022

    Just found another way to do this. Select all your source media. Right Click > Modify > Audio Channels > Tick off L & R. Done! I was going to bang my head on the desk if I didn't find this.

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      Video221336290pw3
      Participant
      July 6, 2022

      Shift + S to toggle Audio playback when scrubbing.

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        neilg87636537
        Participant
        March 23, 2022

        On OSX I do it by going to Audio Midi Setup and creating a new multi-output device, name it 'silent' or something and uncheck the audio outputs. In Premiere go to preferences > audio hardware and select the silent output you just created.

         

        Not sure how you'd do this in Windows, but it's such a basic and useful request Adobe - give us a mute button!!!

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        LaAltamira
        Participant
        November 9, 2021

        Select all the clips you want to silence in the bin, right click; select Modify > Audio Channels, uncheck the media source channels, click OK, this mutes the clips until you check them back on again, make sure you click L under L and R under R, you'll understand when you see it.

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          ivanf36053961
          Participant
          January 23, 2022

          THANK YOU!

          The fastest and easiest way to mute everything.

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          Aniruddh22894029mowx
          Participant
          January 29, 2022

          Just to Add in this , 
          Instead of right clicking on footage - modify - select audio channel 
          You can select the footage and use shortcut key - (SHIFT +G)to go directly into Modify audio channel pannel and then you can uncheck L and R.
          Cheers!!

            emilyk99262850
            emilyk99262850
            Participant
            November 3, 2021

            Try this!

            https://youtu.be/yAwpzOat5II

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              JenAdobeUser
              Known Participant
              June 16, 2022

              This works PERFECTLY! Mutes the source window only, not the timeline. Would be more intuitive if the control was in the Source window instead of the Audio Clip Mixer window, but hey, it still solves the problem quickly and easily. Thank you, emilyk99262850!

              Peorthyr
              Peorthyr
              Participant
              October 14, 2021

              Good day, actually I right click on the source panel, and select audio gain, then set a -99db

              this is painfull, but I actually use only the video from the videos I import... 

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                stephenm72395532
                Participant
                October 25, 2021

                Ya your totally right, this is literally the only way I have found.  Its not hard and takes 5 seconds, you just have to remember to change the audio gain back when its time to edit the clips in timeline

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                Edwon
                Participating Frequently
                October 1, 2021

                this has been a feature request for 3 years already going on 4, my guess, Adobe will NEVER add it, and continue to ignore it's tenants (oops I mean customers) who hand over the money to their f-ing monopoly every month, F ADOBE

                https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/33847612-mute-source-audio-button

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                  SteveD333
                  Inspiring
                  April 26, 2018

                  From the preferences panel, (Edit>Preferences>Audio) select Audio and untick the box "Play audio while scrubbing".

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                    Edwon
                    Participating Frequently
                    September 26, 2021

                    unticking  "Play audio while scrubbing" only disables audio while scrubbing! I want to disable ALL audio coming from the source panel. How do you do this?

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                    JOHN MONDO
                    Inspiring
                    September 30, 2021

                    I want to ONLY mute the source panel, I still want to be able to hear my edit. Muting premiere mutes everything.

                     

                    this a common need and people have been asking for this feature for years, do some googling and you'll see.

                     

                    adobe, remind me again why I have to pay monthly when you don't listen to customer requests at all?!


                    What you're asking for is not easy to achieve. There are two ways - highlight all your source clips you want to mute, right click, choose modify>audio and create a preset with zero tracks and that will kill audio. The negative with this method is you'll have to reverse this process if you want audio.

                     

                    The second method would be to lay all clips on a timeline that you want to preview and simply mute the audio on that timeline when you load it into the source window. This is faster but the negative of this method is you're not referencin gthe actual source clip, but rather timeline. However you can still lay clips down as source clips, so not a major problem.

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