I'm no expert at the new essential sound panel, so my method involves more legacy features: 1) Dialog track: variable volume is common and annoying. An easy fix is to look in audio effects to the "multiband compressor" Drag it onto your dialog track, find it in the effect control panel and hit "edit". The app will open and look very intimidating. Just pick a preset such as "broadcast", or "classical master" , apply the effect and it should even out the amplitude of the track. While you are at it you can check out some of the other audio effects tweaks such as studio reverb, vocal enhancer- experiment with all this and see what you like. Once you are satisfied, you can then normalize the track to the overall level you want. I usually set the peaks for -6 dB 2) Music Track: this is usually the very last thing to deal with. I usually start by normalizing the peaks to the max volume I want. Then using the Audio Track Mixer panel, I set the music track to "write" and start playing the timeline. You can adjust the music volume in real time using the slider. While watching the timeline move forward, you can anticipate when you need to start dropping & raising the music volume. There is a fairly new feature called "auto ducking"- it must be somewhere in the essential sound panel- anyway, it is supposed to automate this adjustment for you. For a really great tutorial on audio in PPro you should watch Jason Levine's 3 part video. Here's Part 1: How to Make Great Videos (Part 1) - Audio in Premiere Pro CC | Adobe Creative Cloud - YouTube The sound track of your movie is hugely important. It is worth a lot of time and trouble to make it great. You can have stunning visuals, but an amateur sound track spells "home movie " to your audience. On the other hand, a brilliant sound track can let you get away with significant shortcomings in the imagery and yet still be considered a masterpiece by your fans 😉 Good luck
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