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You can do some amazing things in your NLE. but music editing is best left to dedicated audio editing software. If you use Adobe products. Audition is your tool of choice. Sony users will probably want Sound Forge. The Avid crowd will naturally gravitate toward ProTools. Those with Macs might look at Bias Peak. If you don’t have a dedicated audio editing program, there are some free alternatives. Audacity is excellent freeware that offers all the basic editing tools and runs on Windows.

While it’s possible to do a great deal of audio editing in today’s video editing packages, specialized tasks are better addressed by dedicated audio software, such as Adobe Audition, Sony Sound Forge, Magix Samplitude, Bias Peak and even the freeware Audacity. But first, you need to know how to export audio from your video project. Every package is different, but Premiere Pro uses an Export Audio function in the File menu. By checking and unchecking the speaker icons beside each audio track, it’s easy to export only the audio you want for editing. Save the file in a 16-bit, 48kHz uncompressed format and you’re ready to load it into your audio editing software.