here's a tutorial on how to use the parametric equalizer to improve your audio in adobe premiere pro the old Q filter was ditched in the latest update of CC 2017. So now we can use the parametric equalizer to improve our audio. So let's just drop it onto this clip and you can see it appears in our audio effects been. So this is just a clip that I shot in my house with my iphone, bad audio quality, no noise reduction. And this is actually a clip for my video production bootcamp. Let's listen through it a little bit when we were filming in this room and my kitchen and I really noticed it so it's quiet so there's not much background noise but my vocal, the sound of my voice isn't great. So let's click edit parametric equalizer and you get the same sort of graph that you had with the EQ effect, you have your frequencies going left to right and then up and down you have your master gain or the decibel level of that audio. So if we click and drag up or down any of these points, then what we ...

get is actually an increase or decrease of those frequencies. So let's just play through and show you. So when I started editing the videos is that there was a decent amount. So if I bring down the low frequencies, you only hear more of the high frequencies. If I bring this up, go in the room and it's mostly you get all that low frequencies. Okay, so we can play around with these two, change the sound of our voice and make it sound better and it's going to be different for every person because our voices have different frequencies. Some of our voices are high, some are low and we can add actually a cut, a high cut or low cut to this effect as well, which will completely get rid of any sounds below or above certain frequencies. And that's usually how I start. And that's with this button right here. This is a low cut filter. So what it's doing is it's cutting all sounds under 40 hertz. I typically set it at around 80 because my voice doesn't have many frequencies under that. So now if we play through it, we were filming at my table which sounds a little bit better and we can turn it on and off with this bypass button over here, The hard service, all the walls I don't really have very subtle. So now let's do the same thing with the high cut. So we're gonna cut this right here and set it at 6500 walls. Right now there's windows and then behind me of course. Okay, so now I'm going to play around with the different frequencies and just watch what I'm doing and then listen in the kitchen, there's the hard surfaces of the countertops. the refrigerator and our floors are all hard to we don't have carpet. Uh and we don't really have any rugs in here as well. So I think I'm going to try. I definitely don't want to increase these higher frequencies. It doesn't sound good. My kitchen and I really noticed it when I started editing the videos is that there was a decent amount of echo. One thing we can do also is change the width of these points. So if we don't want to affect so much, we can increase this range right here. The cube with. So now that only is picking specific frequencies rather than a bigger range in the room. And it's mostly because it's a lot of hard surfaces. We were filming at my table, which is a hard surface, all the walls, I don't really have anything on the walls right now there's windows. And then behind me, of course, in the kitchen there's the hard surfaces of the countertops, the refrigerator and our floors are all hard to we don't have carpet. Uh and we don't really have any rugs in here as well. So I think I'm going to try testing out just placing a blanket on top of the table to see. Okay, so you heard that when I brought this down, it started to sound a little wonky too. So when I'm bringing down the low frequencies on my voice, it sounds weird. And then when I'm bringing up the higher frequencies, it sounds weird. So something like this kinda helps make me sound a little bit fuller. So bringing up the lows, not to sound Basie but just a little bit more warmth I would say in those little frequencies because it's a lot of hard surfaces we were filming at my table which bypassed with the effect. I don't really have anything on the walls. Right? So that's how you use the parametric equalizer to improve your sound. Basically you have these points you can increase or decrease those frequencies, you can turn on the low cut or the high cut filters to just get rid of any of those frequencies under this part. Right here, if you don't want it to cut completely you can click this button and it more gently decreases but it's not a hard cut and sometimes that's better for your voice and then increasing or decreasing the width of these points to include more or less frequencies. So in the next lesson I'm going to show you how to use this effect to actually get rid of echo. Which is another thing you can do with this effect. But now you know how to use the parametric equalizer. If you have any questions please let me know

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Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Lesson Info

45. Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video