Smartmix, Change track types – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Adding and mixing audio
Last updated 8/12/2010
Note: To hide or display tracks, choose Show/Hide Tracks from the Audio Mixer panel menu; then specify which tracks
you want displayed.
3 In the Monitor window, drag the current-time indicator to where you want to start mixing audio.
4 Click Play in the Monitor window and adjust the controls in the Audio mixer to automatically add keyframes to the
track:
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To adjust balance for a track, turn (drag) the Balance control left or right.
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To increase the volume for a track, drag the Level control up or down.
Note: You can specify the spacing of keyframes in the Audio preferences.
To mute a track while mixing, click Mute. This option does not mute the track permanently—only while mixing.
SmartMix
Sometimes the background music is loud and the dialogs in a clip are not audible. To ensure that the dialogs are easily
heard, the volume of the background music must be lowered. SmartMix enables automatic adjustment of the volume
of the background music. For best results, place dialog clips on the Audio 1 track or the Narration track (Foreground
tracks) and music on the Soundtrack track (Background tracks). Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes clips on all
Foreground tracks for dialogs. Keyframes are then smartly/automatically created to lower the volume level to ensure
that the dialog in the Foreground track is audible. SmartMix adjustments apply to all audio clips on the Timeline, not
just on the selected clip. When you use SmartMix on an audio track, keyframes you applied previously on the
Soundtrack are deleted.
Change track types
By default, when you create a track, it is a Foreground track. You can change the track type per your requirement. You
can also disable a track to ensure that the track is ignored when you perform a SmartMix.
1 Do one of the following:
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Select Window > Audio Mixer.
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From the right side of the Timeline and Sceneline, select Audio Tools > SmartMix > Options.
You can view the SmartMixer and Audio Mixer panels.
2 Expand the SmartMixer panel, and select one of the following options from the menu below the track name.
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Foreground
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Background
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Disabled
Note: Select the option Disabled to ignore the track when you perform SmartMix.
SmartMix window