AuditionPerfecto

If you’re producing a video podcast or any show that involves both audio and video, Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro form the perfect duo.
Premiere Pro handles your visuals, while Audition provides professional-grade audio cleanup, mixing, and mastering — all within the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to seamlessly integrate Adobe Audition with Premiere Pro to create studio-quality video podcasts from start to finish.

1. Why Use Audition with Premiere Pro

Editing directly in Premiere can handle basic audio tweaks, but for true clarity, balance, and noise control, you need Audition’s dedicated sound tools.

🎧 Benefits of this workflow:

• Advanced noise reduction and EQ options
• More precise control over dialogue and background sound
• Shared metadata and session files via Dynamic Link
• Faster turnaround between editing and mastering

💡 Pro Tip: You can move between both apps without rendering intermediate files.

2. Start Your Edit in Premiere Pro

Begin by editing your video podcast in Premiere as usual:

1. Import your footage and sync your audio tracks.
2. Trim and arrange your timeline.
3. Apply basic transitions and visual overlays (logos, titles, or lower thirds).

Once the visual flow feels right, it’s time to polish the sound in Audition.

3. Send Audio from Premiere Pro to Audition

Adobe’s integration makes this step effortless:

1. In Premiere, right-click your sequence in the timeline.
2. Choose Edit Clip in Adobe Audition.
3. Premiere exports the sequence’s audio tracks and automatically opens them in Audition’s Multitrack View.

🎧 Pro Tip: Choose “Send through Dynamic Link” if you want automatic updates — changes in Audition will sync back to Premiere.

4. Clean Up the Dialogue in Audition

Now that your podcast’s audio is in Audition:

1. Select the dialogue track.
2. Use Effects → Noise Reduction/Restoration → Capture Noise Print.
3. Then apply Noise Reduction (Process) to remove hiss, hum, or air conditioning noise.
4. Apply DeReverb (20–30%) if your space sounds too echoey.

💡 Quick Tip: For interviews, prioritize clarity and tone — a clean voice track is more valuable than loud background music.

5. Enhance Voices with EQ and Compression

Add polish and consistency to your voice tracks:

1. Go to Effects Rack → Filter and EQ → Parametric Equalizer.
2. Apply the Vocal Enhancer preset.
3. Follow up with Dynamics → Vocal Leveler to even out loud and quiet moments.

🎙️ Pro Tip: Boost 3–5 kHz for presence; roll off below 80 Hz for a tighter sound.

6. Balance Music and Effects

Your background music or intro/outro tracks should complement, not compete with, dialogue.

1. Tag your tracks using the Essential Sound Panel.
2. Enable Auto Ducking on your music track to automatically lower it under speech.
3. Adjust ducking strength to around –12 dB for a natural mix.

7. Master the Final Mix

Use Audition’s mastering tools to bring your entire mix to professional loudness standards:

1. Go to Effects → Special → Mastering.
2. Enable:
   • Exciter: Adds subtle brightness
   • Multiband Compressor: Smooths out tone
   • Hard Limiter: Ceiling at –1 dB
3. Aim for an overall loudness of –16 LUFS (podcast standard).

💡 Pro Tip: Keep your peaks under –1 dB to avoid distortion in the final video export.

8. Send the Audio Back to Premiere Pro

Once you’re happy with the mix:

1. In Audition, go to Multitrack → Export to Adobe Premiere Pro.
2. Choose Mixdown Session to Stereo File for the cleanest version.
3. Your polished audio replaces the original sequence automatically in Premiere.

🎧 Now your video has broadcast-quality sound without needing manual re-syncing.

9. Add Final Touches in Premiere

Back in Premiere, you can:

• Adjust overall levels in the Audio Track Mixer
• Add visual branding elements or animations
• Export directly to YouTube, Spotify Video, or social media

💡 Tip: Always check your final render with headphones to ensure balance.

10. Export and Archive

Finally, export your completed video podcast:

1. Go to File → Export → Media.
2. Use the H.264 preset for YouTube or MP4 distribution.
3. Save your project’s session files and assets in your shared folder for future revisions.

Conclusion

By combining Adobe Audition’s audio precision with Premiere Pro’s video editing power, you’ll produce video podcasts that look and sound like they came straight from a professional studio.
This workflow streamlines your production pipeline, improves sound quality, and ensures your brand sounds as good as it looks.

Next up: “How to Use Adaptive Noise Reduction for Real-Time Audio Cleanup in Adobe Audition.”