Audio Track Mixer overview

Use the Audio Track Mixer in Premiere Pro to edit audio and create a professional project.

The Audio Track Mixer is a powerful tool designed for comprehensive audio control within your video projects. It offers an interface that allows editors to adjust volume, pan, apply effects, and automate changes across entire audio tracks, enhancing the efficiency and professionalism of audio post-production workflows.

You can edit audio tracks using the Audio Track Mixer or the Audio Clip Mixer. The difference is:

• The Audio Track Mixer controls tracks.
• The Audio Clip Mixer controls individual audio clips in each track.

Audio Track Mixer

Each Audio Track Mixer track corresponds to a track in the timeline of the active sequence and displays the Timeline audio tracks in an audio console layout.

The Audio Track Mixer contains a certain number of audio track sliders that directly correspond to the number of audio tracks available in the Timeline. When you add a new audio track to the Timeline, a new track is created in the Audio Track Mixer. You can rename a track by clicking its name. You can also use the Audio Track Mixer to record audio directly into a sequence’s tracks.

Adjustments made in the mixer, such as volume fader movements or panning, affect the entire track rather than individual clips, making it ideal for managing elements like background music, dialogue, or ambient sounds across a sequence.

Automation Modes

The mixer supports five automation modes that enable dynamic audio adjustments during playback:

• Off: Ignores existing keyframes and does not record new ones.
• Read: Plays back existing keyframes without allowing changes.
• Latch: Begins recording keyframes when a control is adjusted, maintaining the new value until playback stops.
• Touch: Records keyframes only while a control is actively adjusted, reverting to previous values when released.
• Write: Continuously records keyframes during playback, overwriting existing ones.

These modes facilitate precise automation of volume, pan, and effect parameters, streamlining the mixing process.

Track Effects

If the Track Effects are not visible in the Audio Track Mixer, select the arrow icon in the upper left corner of the Audio Track Mixer. You can apply and combine audio effects like Reverb, Amplitude, and Compression to entire tracks.

In the Track Effects panel, you can see a set of slots where you can place different effects or send assignments. Select the available slot to see the list of effects that you can apply to the track. Once you apply an effect, you can control the parameter for this effect. You can add multiple effects to occur at the same time.

The FX button keeps the audio effect but mutes it. To remove an effect, select it and choose None from the dropdown menu.

Submixing and Routing

A submix is a track that combines audio signals routed to it from specific audio tracks. You can make adjustments to the submix that can be applied to multiple tracks. A submix is an intermediate step between audio tracks and the master track. It’s almost like the audio version of an adjustment layer.