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djmattyz
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March 31, 2018
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how to get reverb to keep going after the clip ends

  • March 31, 2018
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when applying reverb to a clip, the reverb stops abruptly when the clip stops,   this makes the reverb effect fairly useless in a lot of cases i think, and necessitates creating an individual audio track  using reverb as an insert in order to get the desired effect.

it would be nice if there was a way to toggle between "end when clip ends" and "keep going after clip ends"   for those long reverbs

it would also be nice to be able to do this with delays etc

maybe there is a way but i just didnt find it yet...

      Correct answer R Neil Haugen

      One option is to nest the clip, then use a black video after the clip, add the reverb to the nested sequence,  and keyframe away.

      From Jarle Leirpoll's book.

      Neil

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      Geoffrey37968971duzb
      Known Participant
      December 3, 2024

      awesome work around, thank you

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      gepetto503
      Participant
      January 23, 2025

      Pretty hilarious that you have to do any work around at all to get the reverb tail to continue after the dry signal ends—literally defeats the purpose of adding reverb to something if it doesn't continue ringing out after the original sound ends.

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      InfiniteWhale
      Known Participant
      December 2, 2024

      It's one thing that it does this when the reverb is on the same track as the audio clip, but it does it when it's on a submix track. Nothing else acts like this. Premiere Pro and Adobe really are an absolute joke. 

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      Scott.C.
      Inspiring
      December 11, 2023

      I was working in PrPro 24.1 today and tried the nest trick. It worked on the timeline but when I went to export the video, the export was still cutting the reverb short! What fixed it was adding some muted audio after the SFX in the nest, but just adding black video no longer seems to work.

       

      Annoying that the timeline/export were not the same could be a catastrophic bug for some people using this hack, as it can only be caught in QC.

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      Huge Larry
      Participating Frequently
      February 10, 2022

      Hello. Another way to handle this is to put the reverb effect on an entire audio track, rather than just on individual clips. Go to the "Audio Track Mixer" window, then click the > symbol in the upper left to expand the effects/sends area. On the desired audio track, use the drop down menu in an FX slot to add the reverb. You can then double click the reverb to bring up the effects UI. This method not only solves the reverb tail issue, but it also lets you easily adjust common reverb settings for several clips when you want them all to sound the same. You can even do fancy stuff like have the same reverb be used across multiple tracks via an FX send.

        Neil Raouf
        Neil Raouf
        Participant
        April 18, 2023

        That doesen't work either. I tried everything: Clip, Track, sending Aidoo to a Submix....as soon as the file is finished, the reverb tail stops. this is just not professional.

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          Huge Larry
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          April 20, 2023

          I know from my projects that putting the reverb effect on the audio track rather than the individual clips does the trick. The downside is that all clips on that track will have the reverb unless you add some parameter automation. However, more often than not, I want to reuse the same reverb effect multiple times for different clips, so it's actually helpful to have a track that is dedicated for reverb. I like having the reverb effect set to 100% wet mix, with no dry signal, I will then duplicate any audio clips which need reverb down onto the reverb track, and I can set their gain to determine how much reverb they get. There are tons of ways to get the same result, but I'm liking the 100% wet dedicated reverb track with duplicate clips. You can do fancier stuff with track audio routing.

           

          The track method doesn't work to add a reverb tail to the end of the entire sequence. If you want your reverb tail to extend over black video at the very end of your sequence, then you can just add some black video for as long as you want.

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            nicolasg56839542
            Participant
            August 6, 2019

            I solved the problem by using time remapping to the sound layer. I created two key-frames at the end and I could push the last one as far as I needed. The reverb obviously lasted until the last key-frame ...

            R Neil Haugen
            R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
            Legend
            March 31, 2018

            One option is to nest the clip, then use a black video after the clip, add the reverb to the nested sequence,  and keyframe away.

            From Jarle Leirpoll's book.

            Neil

            Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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              djmattyzAuthor
              Inspiring
              March 31, 2018

              niel, thats a very clever workaround,  thanks :-)

              bucksommerkamp
              Community Expert
              bucksommerkampCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              March 31, 2018

              Could you apply some silence at the end of the clip to give it more time to "resolve" the reverb?

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              djmattyzAuthor
              Inspiring
              March 31, 2018

              bocksummercamp

              i guess so yea, but doing destructive editing (even while your just adding something)  seems a little counter intuitive.  i hope that at some point adobe would consider adding a toggle switch, or just making it default that the reverb would trail on after the clip,  because i think in 90% of cases thats what the user would be looking for.

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