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How to normalize audio levels in Premiere Pro

Short answer

For peaks, select the clips and choose Clip > Audio Options > Audio Gain > Normalize Max Peak to -1 dB. For even loudness, tag clips as Dialogue in Essential Sound and click Auto-Match under Loudness.

In Premiere Pro

  1. 01

    Select the clips

    Select the dialogue clips you want to level.

  2. 02

    Match loudness

    In Essential Sound, tag them as Dialogue, open Loudness and click Auto-Match. Premiere sets each clip to the same loudness.

  3. 03

    Or normalize peaks

    Choose Clip > Audio Options > Audio Gain (G), pick Normalize Max Peak to, type -1 dB and click OK.

  4. 04

    Measure the mix

    Add the Loudness Meter effect to the Mix track in the Audio Track Mixer and play the whole sequence. Online platforms commonly use about -14 LUFS; US broadcast uses -24 LUFS and EBU R128 -23.

  5. 05

    Limit the peaks

    Put a Hard Limiter on the Mix track with a ceiling around -1 dB so nothing clips after you raise the level.

Eddie AI

Do it in Eddie

Eddie can level speech in the export, and sets final loudness on MP4 renders.

Tick Auto-level speech (-16 LUFS) on the Premiere destination before you export, and each speaker's dialogue arrives at the same level as clip gain. For cloud MP4 renders, Eddie sets final loudness to -14 LUFS by default, with EBU -23 and ATSC -24 options. Final loudness does not change a timeline export, so set the mix target in Premiere.

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.

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From the help center

Questions

What LUFS should I use for YouTube?
YouTube normalizes playback to about -14 LUFS, so mixing near that avoids it being turned down.
What is the difference between normalize and Auto-Match?
Normalize sets the loudest peak. Auto-Match sets the average loudness, which is what people hear.

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