This content originally appeared on Envato Tuts+ Tutorials and was authored by Andrew Childress
When you use Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ll likely be editing audio as well as video. And sometimes, the audio that you have to work with isn’t the best.
But you can vastly improve the audio in post-production. In this tutorial, we’ll learn different methods to denoise in Premiere. You won’t have to use other apps, thanks to features for noise reduction in Premiere Pro.
We’ll work with a stock audio clip from Envato in this guide. Titled People Talking in Lobby Ambience, you can download it to follow along. Let's learn how to reduce background nose in Premiere.
How to reduce background noise in Premiere Pro
1. Add audio to your Premiere Pro project
The first step to reduce background noise in Premiere Pro is to add audio to your project. To do that, find the Timeline panel. The Timeline sits at the bottom of Premiere Pro.
Consider it the centering point of your project. With the Timeline, you can add multimedia and then sequence it. This controls when video (and audio) begins, ends, and interacts together.
You can drag and drop the audio clip onto the Timeline in order to denoise audio Premiere Pro.
Begin by browsing to an audio file that you have stored on your computer. Find it, then click to select it. Drag it over your Timeline, and drop it into place.
You’ll see this noted on the left side of the Timeline.
Premiere Pro will import the audio that you’ve chosen.
2. Open Effects and Effect Controls to DeNoise in Premiere Pro
To see how to achieve Premiere Pro noise reduction, we'll use two directly related menus. With the Effects panel, you can add effects to clips in Premiere. The Effect Controls panel lets you adjust the intensity of those effects.
You’ll add a DeNoise Premiere Pro effect on the Effects panel. Then, you’ll control how much noise to remove over on the Effect Controls.
These panels are not automatically visible. To show them, locate the Window dropdown at the top of Premiere Pro. Click on it, and you’ll see an array of options appear on the dropdown menu. Find Effects, and click on it.
When you do, you’ll see the Effects panel open. It shows up on the right side of Premiere Pro, to the right of the Timeline.
Now, let’s open the Effect Controls. Return again to the Window dropdown. This time, choose Effect Controls from near the top of the list.
You’ll see this panel open, this time, in the upper left side of your Premiere Pro window.
3. Apply a DeNoise audio effect in Premiere
We’ll first want to apply the DeNoise audio effect to achieve noise reduction in Premiere Pro. To get started, find the audio clip in the Timeline. In this example, it appears as a green bar.
Click on it once to select it. Then, navigate to the Effects panel that we launched on the right side of the screen.
Inside the Effects panel are several subfolders. The one to use is Audio Effects. Open it, then open the Noise Reduction Premiere Pro subfolder.
Inside, you’ll see several effects listed. Included is the one we need here: DeNoise for Premiere Pro.
To achieve noise reduction in Premiere Pro, click and drag on the DeNoise effect. Move it over the audio track that you have selected in the Timeline. Release your cursor to drop it into place.
4. Adjust the effect
When you add the DeNoise effect, watch the Effect Controls panel in the upper left. You’ll see it populate with new dropdown options. Among these is the DeNoise dropdown.
Just as the Effect Controls name suggests, this is where you’ll control the intensity of the DeNoise effect.
Open the DeNoise dropdown. In the Custom Setup group, click the Edit button. When you do, Premiere launches the Clip Fx Editor. If you hit the Spacebar on your keyboard, the audio will begin playing.
As it does, you can monitor the sound waves in the preview box on the Clip Fx Editor. You have multiple options here.
You can choose from presets, for example. On the Presets dropdown, you’ll see that the Default settings are active. But by clicking, you can choose the Light or Heavy Noise Reduction options.
At the bottom of the Clip Fx Editor, you can enjoy full control over background noise reduction. This is done with the Amount slider. You can pull it left or right to reduce or enhance the amount of noise reduction.
When you’re finished, exit out of the Clip Fx Editor. Your Premiere Pro noise reduction effects are applied to your clip.
More options: The Essential Sound panel
Above, you learned how to reduce noise using the Effects and Effect Controls. But you have even more options.
You can also use the Essential Sound. This can enhance the edits that you’ve already made. Or, you can use these options instead of the Effects.
Let’s look at how to denoise in Premiere using the Essential Sound panel.
1. Open the Essential Sound panel
Let’s launch the Essential Sound panel from the Window dropdown at the top of your screen. Click it, and from the listed options, find Essential Sound. Click on it.
When you click, you’ll see the Essential Sound panel launch. By default, it will appear on the right side of your screen, atop the Effects panel.
2. Reduce background noise in Premiere Pro with Essential Sound
The Essential Sound menu is now ready to be used for noise reduction in Premiere Pro. To begin, click on your audio track in the Timeline. Then, go to the Essential Sound panel.
Make sure that you’re working on the Edit tab in Essential Sound. Here, you’ll see several subsections down below. Find the one labeled Repair and click on it.
When you do, new settings and options will become visible. First and foremost is Reduce Noise.
To activate it, click the checkmark beside it. Then, as you did earlier, hit your Spacebar to begin playing your audio. As it plays, move the slider left and right to control the intensity of the noise reduction.
Optionally, you can use the Reduce Rumble slider as well. This is useful in some cases where you experience a background rumble in your recording. Activate Reduce Rumble with the checkbox, then adjust the level as you play back your audio.
Explore background noise reduction in Premiere Pro today!
In this tutorial, you learned how to denoise in Premiere Pro. With a powerful set of options at your fingertips, you can salvage audio and make it sound great in your next project.
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This content originally appeared on Envato Tuts+ Tutorials and was authored by Andrew Childress
Andrew Childress | Sciencx (2023-10-17T12:49:02+00:00) How to remove background noise from audio in Premiere Pro (2024 DeNoise guide). Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2023/10/17/how-to-remove-background-noise-from-audio-in-premiere-pro-2024-denoise-guide/
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