When it comes to wedding videos, making sure you have the right music at hand can make all the difference. Any time you sign up to film a client’s wedding, it’s a pretty big responsibility to take on. After all, it’s your work that’ll shape the couple’s perception of their special day for

Watch as two video essay maestros clash in good fun while arguing the pros and cons of contemporary film scores. After the recent release of Every Frame a Painting’s excellent breakdown of why current film scores lack the enduring appeal of classics like Star Wars, Dan Golding just re

Adobe gets it. We talk to the creative team behind the Creative Cloud at Adobe Video World 2016. We aren’t far removed from the decision to combine After Effects World and Premiere Pro World — as the whole industry continues to shift to a single person needing to know how to do everything th

Recording voice-over and narration can be a daunting task. Before starting your next project, consider these methods and equipment. On my recent trip to Adobe Video World, I attended a session on how to properly record voice-overs and narration put on by Cheryl Ottenritter from Ott House Au

Add epic drama to your next project by ending your clips with audio reverb. In this thorough tutorial created by Derek Lieu, ending a music cue with reverb is made simple. With just a few easy-to-remember steps, you can give your video a dramatic boost.  The effect is instantly recognizable

Save time and energy by using this method to edit multiple internal camera audio files simultaneously. When editing in Premiere Pro, oftentimes the built-in audio tools simply fail to live up to the fantastic audio features found in Audition. In the following post, we’ll take a look a

Learn how to perfectly edit and time your music tracks in Adobe Premiere Pro. For many years I worked as an editor for a PBS affiliate television station in Florida. Working in the broadcast realm, I was often required to edit content to a specific length, down to the frame. I became profic

Meet Project VoCo, Adobe’s new audio editing software that allows you edit speech the same way Photoshop allows you to edit images. All images via Adobe Max This year’s Adobe Max brought out some big name speakers and some pretty cool sneak looks at what’s in store for the Creative Clo

Song not fitting into your edit? Not a problem. Use the Remix feature in Adobe Audition to automatically rearrange any song to fit any duration. Finding the perfect song for your video project can be a challenge. Even more frustration can arise when you find yourself struggling to make that

As a new podcast creator, you have a lot of options to host your podcast. Let’s find out which one is right for you in 2022. So, if you’re like, well, just about anyone living in 2022, you’ve thought about starting a podcast. You get some buddies, set up some mics, and

In this writeup, we’ll discuss how to make a scene completely silent, as well as how to reintroduce specific sounds into your scene. When we think about the concept of silence, we may be quick to imagine the removal of all sound — nothingness. Back in your school days, you may have had

Audacity is a free audio recording and editing application with an easy-to-use interface. Here are a few tips on getting started. Audacity is the default software for many multimedia content creators because not only is it free, it’s also relatively easy to use. As a bonus, it doesn’t consum

PremiumBeat sat down with the composers for American Gods to discuss their process and working with the show. The untempered and gritty scores from American Gods’ composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans nurture a certain work ethic, demonstrating their long-term success in the indu

Do you want to eliminate the vocals in your audio track? We’ll go over both the easy way and the hard way to remove them. There are many reasons to remove vocals from a track in your edit. The vocals could be distracting, or even overpowering when matched with dialogue or voiceovers. S

In this guide, we go over some tips on different ways you can use looped music in your edit to really make your project stand out. If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time on YouTube and Vimeo. A new channel to subscribe to, a new rabbit hole to go down. And in your quest to watch

In this practical guide for working video editors, we round up everything you need to know about working with music in your projects. In the dark ages of the internet, long before YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook, there was a time when music bounced around free and unchecked as bootlegged .MP3s fr

This is “Cinematic Atmospheres.” A collection of over 80 extremely versatile music textures and sounds for your films and editing. Finding music is easy (especially when you have a PremiumBeat account, wink wink). What can be a lot more difficult is finding the right tones and so

Work smarter, not harder! Grouping multiple clips together as a compound clip makes it easier to add effects. Here’s to do it. Similar to grouped clips and compound nodes used during the grading process, compound clips allow users to cluster clips together in the E

What really makes the Dolby Cinema experience so unique? Let’s take a look. It began with an English photographer giving a lecture and projecting hand-drawn images onto a screen at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Over the next few decades Nickelodeon theaters would begin to pop u

In this roundup, we check out some in-depth tutorials with some sound advice for editing quality audio on your next video project. Ask any industry professional, and they’ll probably tell you the same thing. The number one issue with the majority of low-budget or indie film and video project