Better Editor on Mixing Audio with the loudness Meter in Premiere Pro

The Better Editor YouTube Channel has this very interesting video on Mixing Audio with the Loudness Meter in Premiere Pro. I have to admit as an editor I certainly need to get better at my Audio Mixing, as so many places aren’t even doing a proper mix before going on the air, which is insane to me. A mixer can do it quickly and so well, but it is certainly a skill that as an editor you will have to use more and more, so this is certainly something you should learning about.

Jason Boone at Frame.io on Premiere Pro Audio Tools

Jason Boone at Frame.io insider has an must read article entitled “These Premiere Pro Audio Tools Will Make You A Mix Master.”

I am an editor and not a sound guy, so this is certainly useful. I do spend a lot of time with the essential sound panel to get a passable mix, but for me a mix should go to a mixer, but that doesn’t always happen, so learning as much as you can is a great thing.

I do plan on doing some more sound specific lessons for Premiere and Audition in the future, but I have not delved into it to much as of yet.

Billy Rybka’s 4 top DaVinci Resolve Plugins for 2021

You can also read about these 4 plugs in at 4K Shooter.

OK I haven’t used these yet, but I want to try them all out.

I use Optical Flares from Video Copilot for flares in my motion graphics all the time, so I do love having access to flares and $39 for LensMaster Flares is ridiculously cheap.

And I have to admit to hating doing audio mixes and cleanup, and though I do use Essential Sound in Premiere it doesn’t do as much as it looks like Alex Audio Butler does. And I really want to get my hands on the ERA 5 Bundle. I don’t really mess with EQ and compression unless I have to, so these tools would be amazing to have.

And I just installed Reactor from We Suck Less. I haven’t delved too deep into Fusion as of yet, but I have played a bit. And to have this amazing set of tools for free. Wow! I can’t wait.

Oliver Peters on Audio Plug-ins for editors

Oliver Peters at his digitalfilms blog has written 2 article son Audio Plug-ins for Editors. Parts 1 & 2 focus on categories, such as equalizers and compressors, part 3 is on the audio plug-ins from FabFilter Software Instruments and 4 is on Free Plug-ins.

You should go to his blog and check out parts 1, 2 , 3 and 4.

Sound is my worst part of editing. So often of late I am working for companies that expect me to mix, when an audio guy can add so much to a mix. Maybe this can help a little with audio if you want to dive into it.

Open source audio app Audacity has been dubbed spyware after new owner starts user data collection

9to5Mac is reporting the news on the latest versions of Audacity.

I would recommend not using Audacity from it’s current owner. This is an app that should not even be online and is stealing user data, WTF!

Now a Temporary-audacity is a fork of the audacity code which removes Sentry Telemetry and Crash Reporting, but you need to build it from the source code. Hopefully they will build a version that is easy to install for all OSes, but it will not be as easy as the main version, but at least it can exist because of the opensource nature of the source code.

Now Mashable is reporting on the company refuting that it is spyware. Don’t trust them though they want to steal your data, if they didn’t they wouldn’t be saying you have to be older than 13 to use the software.

EDIT:

So according to Engadget Muse is updating’s it’s privacy policy and won’t be selling any of the user information it collects. And it claims it needs to do this to add the automatic software update it is adding.

Honestly yes they need to update that atrocious privacy policy, but I don’t want them collecting anything unless I expressly allow it, and an offline program doesn’t need to know anything about my computer. Sure I could just use little snitch to block it, but i want a program fork on principle now.

ProVideo Coalition article on Adobe and AVID needing iXML metadata in the Timeline

I have posted how this is needed in Premiere immediately, but i ran across this article by Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition. I hadn’t realized that Final Cut Pro X had added it, and didn’t realize you can read the metadata in Premiere, just not easily, and it should be appended to the tracks in the timeline just like it is DaVinci Resolve.

This is a feature that Adobe needs to add immediately.