Premiere Pro · Audio
How to add sound effects in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Import the sound effect file, drag it onto its own audio track at the right frame, tag it as SFX in Essential Sound, and set its level against the dialogue.
In Premiere Pro
01
Import the files
Choose File > Import and bring in your sound effect files.
02
Place them
Drag each one onto an audio track kept for effects, such as A4, lined up with the action.
03
Tag as SFX
In Essential Sound, click SFX. Use Pan and Reverb there to place the sound in the space.
04
Set the level
Drag the volume line or use Clip Volume so the effect supports the picture and doesn't cover speech.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie generates sound effects from a prompt.
Ask, for example, "Add a whoosh as the title comes in." A two-second effect costs about 7 credits. You can't upload your own sound effect file to Eddie's effects lane yet. Generated audio arrives in Premiere, and Assets > Generated assets (.zip) in All export options gives you every generated file to relink next to the timeline.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Does Premiere come with sound effects?
- Premiere doesn't ship a sound effects library. Use a licensed library or Adobe Stock.
- What track should sound effects go on?
- Their own tracks, separate from dialogue and music, so you can mix each group.