How to Unlink Audio and Video in Premiere?

How to Unlink Audio and Video in Premiere? Separating audio from video serves a variety of purposes, including converting YouTube videos to a compact MP3 format or dabbing audio over narration in another language.

Is it necessary to extract audio from a single clip or the entire video? Adobe Premiere Pro has you covered! It includes all of the tools needed to create audio clips from any video file, including MPEG, AVI, FLV, and the standard MP4.

You’ll be able to separate audio from the clip and export it in no time if you follow these simple steps.

How to Unlink Audio and Video in Premiere?

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Adobe Premiere Pro enables you to mute or remove audio from your clip. Here’s how to remove audio from a video using Adobe Premiere Pro:

1. Start a new project first. Navigate to File > New.
2. Now, import the video to be muted. Navigate to File > Import.
3. Then, from the Project panel, drag and drop the imported clip onto the Timeline panel.
4. Choose a video clip from the timeline. To select the video layer, simply click on it.
5. In Premiere Pro, there are two steps to removing audio from a video. To begin, detach the audio from the video. To do so, right-click on the video in the timeline and select Unlink from the dropdown menu that appears.
6. Second, now that the audio has been separated from the clip, you can delete it. To remove the audio, either select it by clicking on it and pressing the delete key or right-click on the audio layer you just unlinked from the clip and choose Clear from the dropdown menu.

Using Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ve finally removed the audio from your video.

You can always connect the tracks again. Alternatively, if your clip contains multiple audio tracks, you may want to keep them linked but leave the video unlinked. Unlink the clip after selecting it. Then lasso or Shift+click the audio tracks to select them only. Then, on the Mac, press Command+L / Control+L (Windows) to link them. If you want to reconnect the audio and video tracks, follow the same steps.

Editing Audio

You can adjust audio in several ways:

Audio Levels

Mute/Solo: In the Timeline, click the M to the left of the audio track. Click the S (Solo button) to the left of the mute button to temporarily silence all other tracks.

Volume: To increase or decrease the volume of the clip, drag the Clip Volume Indicator Line up or down.

Keyframes, which are placed in the audio track, are another useful audio editing option. Navigate the cursor over the bottom line of the audio track you want to expand to access the keyframe button using the Selection Tool. The cursor transforms into two double-ended arrows. To expand the audio track, click and drag it down.

Keyframes: To add a keyframe to the Clip Volume Indicator Line, click the Keyframe button on the audio track. Drag the keyframe to the desired level on the line. This allows you to increase or decrease the volume of specific audio segments in a clip (ex. fading music into your video).

Mixing

Mixing is the alteration or enhancement of audio, which can include modifying the volume, panning to the left or right, and adding effects like delay, reverb, and so on. These can be performed in the Timeline or the Audio Clip Mixer.

TIMELINE:

1. To select different properties, right-click in the little fx box in the clip’s corner ( panner, volume, or track volume to affect every clip in the track).

AUDIO CLIP MIXER IN SOURCE MONITOR:

1. To view the audio clip in the Source Monitor, double-click it (or click and drag the video into the Source Monitor).

2. The selected audio clip will now be displayed in a visual “waveform” that symbolizes the peaks and valleys of the clip’s volume levels.

3. To bring up the Audio Clip Mixer, select the third tab.

4. To achieve the desired result, use the Volume Fader lever to manipulate volume levels. Be cautious of audio “clipping,” which occurs when the volume is too high and causes distortion, as indicated by the color red.

5. Using the panning knob, you can adjust the balance of the left and right channels within the stereo field.

How to Extract Audio from Video

1. Select File New Project from the main menu to start a new project.
2. Name the project, save it in the location of your choice, and then click OK.
3. Add the video clips from which you want to extract the audio using ANY of the following methods: Select File Import from Media Browser. Drag the clip from the Media Browser to the timeline. Import the clip by right-clicking it in the Media Browser. Drag the clip from the Media Browser to the Project Panel.
4. Using the Extract Audio feature, extract the audio from the clip, then generate new audio master clips to keep the original audio.
5. Alternatively, choose Clip Audio Options Extract Audio to make new audio files with the extracted audio.

Quick Fix: Video Clip Audio Doesn’t Show Up in Premiere Pro Timeline

I’m sure many others are experiencing this issue, so here’s a one-click solution.

If your clip doesn’t display the accompanying audio, remove it from the timeline. Hover over the first A1 on the left side of the timeline now. The right A1 is already highlighted in blue. To enable it, click A1 (it will turn blue).

Drag your video clip into the sequence, and you’re done! The missing audio suddenly appeared.

See? It’s so obvious, but it’s easy to overlook the most simple answers, especially when it comes to the interface you stare at for hours on end being slightly altered. It should be noted that this repair only works if the original video contains audio. I hope this was helpful.

How to Restore a Deleted Audio Clip from Your Timeline

Now imagine you’re in the middle of an edit and you’re working with video clips that have audio clips connected to them. For the purposes of this article, let’s also assume that while editing the video, you accidentally delete one of the audio tracks beneath the video clip. Instead of searching through your bin for the clip or stressing about erasing the video clip from the video track, simply press the “F” keyboard shortcut (or go to Sequence>Match Frame).

This will align your frame with the clip’s In and Out points in the source monitor. Because the “In and Out” points were already chosen, the clip will be the right length, and you can simply drop it down onto your timeline in the same spot. Isn’t it easy?

How to Locate Lost Waveforms and Files in Your Timeline

Even with all of our experience and knowledge of these editing programs, things don’t always work. It’s unavoidable. Premiere occasionally does this strange thing where your audio recordings are on your timeline, but the clip isn’t playing, and there’s no waveform.

Let’s get started because the solution is relatively simple. To begin, navigate to Edit>Preferences>Media Cache. Then you’ll want to find the file’s location, so search for “Location” and then browse to that file path on your computer. It may appear as C:UsersYourNameAppData. As a result, you must follow that details to the Media Cache file location. Then, you should find a folder called “Peak Files,” which you can double-click to open. After that, highlight all of the folders in Peak Files and delete them.

After that, restart Premiere Pro. Your audio waveforms should be visible on your timeline. Voila!

And that’s all there is to it. You’ve now unlinked the audio from the video in Premiere Pro and are troubleshooting some audio issues. We hope you found this article useful, and please share your thoughts in the comments section below. Happy editing!

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Originally posted on March 14, 2023 @ 6:12 pm