Got two Premiere Pro questions with audio.

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ironpony

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When you format a project, what's the difference between "audio samples", and milliseconds? Which one is better quality, depending?

And I do an audio dissolve by hitting expotential fade right, but are their any other kinds of audio dissolves for different effects? Thanks.
 
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I'm pretty sure that audio samples and milliseconds are ways of representing audio on the timeline and don't change the quality. Bit depth and rate affect quality. The dissolves include constant gain which, in my opinion, blends a little more naturally than exponential. It's pretty subtle though, and not really different enough to categorize as an effect like reverb or delay. I've been doing some dialog editing by opening the sequence in Audition. There are some powerful tools in there.
 
They are just different ways of defining time, the frame rate is also sometimes used to enter fades or effects etc.

So in the Uk for one second of video on the timeline at 25fps with 48k audio we have:

1: 48,000 samples
2: 1,000 milliseconds
3: 25 frames
 
There is also the constant power audio transition (i believe this blends the two waveforms together) which is great for music track transitions or blending room tone into and out of speech tracks seamlessly.
 
Okay thanks. I have to do a dissolve actually that goes from a quiet room, to a room with music playing. What would be best for that? I also have to do one where it dissolves to a metal shearing sound effect, as part of a suspenseful flashback. Which way of defining time would be better for ADR, or does it not really matter?
 
Honestly try all 3 and see which sounds best. It's tough to say which is best for a situation that I'm not in(seeing the waveforms/hearing the audio from both sources).
 
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