How to cut a song at any point in Premiere Pro
Did you know that you can end a song at any point in Adobe Premiere Pro and make it sound good? There is a clever technique that you can apply that makes this very easy.
How to cut a song at any point in Premiere Pro
The first thing you do is to cut the audio where you want it to end (preferably just before a beat or before they hit the drum) and then shorten the second part of the audio track down to half a second or so, so that you only hear that beat.
(You can experiment with the length depending on the song.)
Now select the second part of the song that you just shortened, right-click on it and click “nest”.
Double-click on that nest to open it, place the playhead at the end and then extend the clip so it becomes about 2 seconds long.
Now cut the clip where the playhead is (with “cmd + K”), drag down the volume on the second part all the way to the bottom, and then fade out the first part of the audio track by adding a transition to the cut point.
Select the transition and go to the “Effect controls” window.
Drag the transition all the way to the left and extend it to cover the first clip completely.
Now, because you just extended the content inside your nest, you can go back to the main sequence and extend the nest as much as you can.
Then open the “Effects” window.
Search for “Studio reverb” and drag and drop that on your nest.
Then search for “Constant Gain” and drag and drop that onto the cut-point between the first part of the audio track and the nest.
Make that transition just a couple of frames long.
Now select the nest, go to the “Effect controls” window, select the effect “Studio reverb” and click “edit” underneath that effect.
In the popup window, go to the dropdown “Presets” and select “Great hall” and that’s it!
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