Auto Ducking in Premiere Pro: Increase Your Audio Quality Automatically 2024

Auto Ducking in Premiere Pro

Are you tired of adjusting audio levels manually in your videos? Then you need to learn about auto ducking in Premiere Pro. This powerful feature allows you to automatically increase the volume of your music track when you’re not speaking, creating a seamless audio experience. Say goodbye to inconsistent audio and hello to a more polished result. Subscribe now for more Premiere Pro tips and tricks!

Welcome to the short tutorial on auto ducking in Premiere Pro. I have this clip here that I made on my timeline. I’m narrating about stingrays. I have a music track and what I want to do is increase the volume when I am not speaking, I want the audio to go up and down automatically.

I want to use auto ducking within Premiere Pro. Auto Ducking within Premiere Pro is a process of having premiere create automatic keyframes on your audio tracks, which reduces the volume of one or more selected tracks.

For this feature to work correctly. You will have to identify your audio tracks. You can do this by working in the essential Sound panel in Premiere.

With your project and Timeline open navigate to the window option in the toolbar and select workspace and then audio.

So now with my dialog selected,

I’m going to go over to my Essential sound panel

and click here where it says Dialog

Going to go to the top here where it says loudness

and click on auto match.

This option will raise your voice audio to the correct decibel level or dialog

next, so select the music track.

You know, go back over and to my essential sound panel and click on music

again under Loudness. I’ll click on

Auto Match.

So this will bring your music to a good level

to complement and not overpower your dialog.

Next will navigate over to the ducking tab. We’ll enable it right here with this checkbox

and in the row this is ducking against.

Make sure this first option is checked.

So these are the defaults that you see right here.

what we’re going to do is click generate keyframes

to compute and set keyframes for the amplify effect that has been added to the music track

Going to generate keyframes.

So based on those default settings, we now have these points on our timeline.

So here’s a sample of the way this sounds, and you can hear the auto ducking come up here

sharks and skates. Despite their fearsome reputation, most stingrays are docile

and prefer to avoid confrontation.

Known for their wing like pectoral fins, stingrays

So you can hear the music come up

right when there is no speaking.

So now, if you want to move the position of these keyframes over to the left,

what you can do is increase the fade position.

So the fade position

will allow you to change where you want the fade to begin.

So over here in the Essential sound panel under ducking fade position,

say if I want to

shift it over,

I can increase

to the slider towards there’s more inside,

I’ll put it 6.3, something like that.

And so watch the keyframes in the center of the screen. I’m going to hit generate keyframes again

and you can see the

fade position changing

Play a little bit of this back.

most stingrays are docile

and prefer to avoid confrontation.

Known for their wing like pectoral fins,

but notice now over here on the left we have these unwanted keyframes.

They’re kind of random,

so get rid of them. What we need to do is increase the sensitivity

and we’ll bring this up,

say, nine ish,

and then we’re going to hit

generate keyframes again.

and if you look on the music track, those

random keyframes went away.

So higher or lower sensitivity settings results in fewer adjustments.

So now if you want to increase the duration of the fade between the two points, we can come over here to fade duration

and I’m going to crank it up

close to 1400,

then generate keyframes.

that changed your fade duration,

And I’ll playback that little segment again

stingrays are docile

and prefer to avoid confrontation.

Known for their wing like pectoral fins,

So there’s some

subtle differences there in here with your fade duration.

And then finally you can come over to the Duck Amount. So this parameter is going to select how much to reduce the volume of your music clip.

So if you adjust the settings to the right, reduces the volume more dramatically or to the left, more subtle volume adjustments,

and then you hit generate keyframes.

I’m going to come over here to my duck amount,

I’ll say

-24. So

it generate keyframes again.

And you can see that the duck amount changed on the audio track.

most stingrays are docile

and prefer to avoid confrontation.

Known for their wing like pectoral fins, stingrays

that brought down the volume of the music clip.

so you can try different variations of all these settings.

mostly the default will work.

you might want to adjust the duck amount according to your timeline.

I hope you find this video helpful and learn something new. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.

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