Audio In Premiere Pro

Audio support in Premiere Pro

One area where Premiere Pro is significantly superior to most other editing applications is audio.  Sony Vegas is arguable as good, but falls short on some of editing features - Avid Liquid comes close for audio editing, although will not edit down to the sample level.

• Surround Sound support - one of the few programs to support proper 5.1 surround sound - you can even position your audio in “surround soundspace”.   Clips can be exported to Dolby Digital AC-3 sound for writing to DVD with your video, although you will need to buy an extra plug-in, approx. £200-£300 to make the AC-3 files.
• Highly accurate sound mixing - you can adjust sound right down to the sample level, not just per frame as with most other programs.  This also means you can place sound very accurately on the timeline.
• Support for industry standard VST plug-ins - giving a huge range of filters, on top of those supplied with the program, to use.
• Submix tracks allow you to route several tracks into one and then apply effects to this submix track.
• Audio is displayed as left and right channels on the timeline - like Avid Liquid, and you can choose to break these out to mono clips, or just use the left or right channel.
• You have control over the clip level and the track volume, which can be raised or lowered as desired.  Plus you can write your audio levels as you listen to the audio.
  Premiere has a “voice over tool.
• Premiere Pro draws “Pek” files of the audio when loaded.  These give you an instant redraw of the on-screen wave form as you zoom in and out of the timeline - not more waiting for the screen to redraw like non-pro versions.  It does this in the background while you work.
• Support for ASIO sound cards means better and more responsive editing.  The audio scrub is particularly nice.