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Mixing your music to custom lengths

Mixing your music to custom lengths

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Mixing your music to custom lengths

- A relatively new tool in Premiere Elements 2018 is the music remix tool. With music remix, you can take any song. Any popular song, anything that's on your hard drive, trim it down to whatever length you need for your movie, and the program is going to automatically remix the song so it has a natural beginning, middle and end. This is a very cool tool. Going to take a song, this is a royalty free song, from our webiste, moviepics.com, and we'll drag it down to our timeline. You can see that by default or by nature, this song is, let's press on the backslash key, wow, we're at two minutes and 45 seconds long. Now I've placed it on the music track, this is the only track in which the music remix tool is enabled. So this won't work on any other track. I'm just going to trim the song, just by dragging on the end and by the way, you notice when I trim a video, this is what the trim tool looks like: it looks kind of like open brackets with an arrow on it. When I remix music, on the other…

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