You can make premiere behave pretty much like FCP.
Also read 5 rules for a smooth edit.
Preferences>Audio: Default Settings, except>change all Default Audio Tracks to Mono.
This makes it so that stereo camera tracks can be edited as double mono tracks.
If you’ve already imported or even edited them you can still change them, but this is a last resort. Right-click the tracks and choose>Audio channels
Or right click the clip in the bin and choose>Modify>Audio Channels
Premiere has 3 places where you adjust levels.
- Gain > Press G on the keyboard use FCP style menu to adjust clip levels.
- Window> Audio Clip Mixer sets levels FCP style with possibility or rubberbanding. Make sure that “Show Audio Keyframes” is on in the Timeline Wrench menu.
- Window>Audio Track Mixer sets levels for whole track.
Sync sound on track 1-4 0 DB (level individual clips with G)
Nat sound tracks 5&6 at -15dbs.
Music tracks 7&8 at -15dbs.
Open the top area of the Master track
add the Multiband Compressor for immediate smoothing of all levels.
If you have noisy audio you can either:
Put all those clips on dedicated tracks > say 10+11 then add the DeNoiser to those tracks
or
add the same DeNoiser to individual clips.
Watch out for taking the DeNoiser too far and creating artifacts. Sometimes using an EQ effect can yield better results than DeNoise.
Workarounds for missing save function effects in Track mixer:
- Save a project as a template with your effects in place in the Audio Track Mixer.
- Nest audio clips into one clip in a track and apply your presets from the Effects Bin.
- Link to Audition and finish audio there.
- Bounce out an AAF and do it in Pro Tools.
- Create screenshots of your effects settings and save them in a folder on your desktop or Dropbox for reference.