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Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting your project folder SD card
    • Creating a project folder
    • Backing up your project folder
    • Copying media files from a Canon video camera into your project folder
    • Copying media files from an iPad/ iPhone into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a video camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying media files from a still camera SD card into your project folder
    • Copying WAV files from a Zoom H2n to your project folder
    • Downloading media files from YouTube to your project folder
    • Downloading free music to your project folder
    • Renaming MTS files
    • Opening Premiere
    • Creating a Premiere project
  • Importing and logging clips
    • Importing media files
    • Previewing clips in the Source monitor
    • Renaming clips in the Project panel
    • Creating a sequence
    • Logging your video
    • Writing a script
    • Recording narration
    • Adding In and Out points to a clip
  • Editing in the Timeline panel
    • Building a story in your sequence
    • Viewing your project in the Program monitor
    • Adding a clip to your sequence
    • Adding an image to your sequence
    • Adding an audio clip to your sequence
    • Arranging items in your sequence
    • Trimming or extending an item in your sequence
    • Deleting an item in your sequence
    • Zooming in and out
    • Muting timeline audio scrubbing
  • Working with audio
    • Using mute and solo controls
    • Centering audio channels
    • Adjusting the audio level of an individual clip
    • Adjusting the audio level of all clips in a track
    • Changing the duration of a dissolve or audio fade
    • Automating clip volume with keyframes
  • Adding text and transitions
    • Downloading a JAMS Text Template to Your Project Folder
    • Opening a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding a JAMS Text Template to Your Sequence
    • Working with Text in a JAMS Text Template
    • Adding the Media Milwaukee End Screen to Your Sequence
    • Adding a cross disolve
    • Adding a dip to black transition
  • Exporting
    • Exporting a still image from your sequence
    • Exporting an MP4
  • Troubleshooting
    • Panels are in Weird Places
    • A Panel is Missing or Looks Different
    • One Panel is Super Large and It's the Only Thing You See in Premiere
    • Media files are in your project folder but they don't appear in the import window
  • Glossary
    • Glossary
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  1. Working with audio

Automating clip volume with keyframes

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Specific areas of your clips can be set to automatically become louder or softer in volume as your project plays in theTimeline. This automation process is not always necessary, but it is an option if want to create dynamic volume fluctuations at specific points in your project.

To automate the volume of an audio track, you can use the Pen Tool to add keyframes to your clips in theTimeline. The keyframes will automatically increase or decrease the volume of the sound bites as your project plays.

  1. In the Tools panel, select the Pen Tool.

  2. If necessary, expand the visible area of the audio track section in the Timeline. Click and drag the audio track height slider handles (on the right side of the audio track area in Timeline.) You will see waveforms in the audio portions of your clips.

  3. Using the Pen Tool, click the horizontal white line that runs though the middle of the clip you'd like to edit. A keyframe (small circle) will appear on the white line.

  4. Click the horizontal white line to add more keyframes to your clip. (Generally, audio automation only requires three or four keyframes.)

  5. Using the Pen Tool, keyframes can be moved up or down (to adjust clip volume) or left to right (to adjust the point at which the volume changes begin or end.)

  6. To delete a keyframe, select it using the Pen Tool (the keyframe will appear blue.) Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

  7. When finished, switch back to the Selection Tool in the Tools panel.