Having balanced background music is important for Your video viewing experience!
I’ll show you how to take your background music [FROM BEING TOO LOUD AND COMPETING WITH
YOUR VOICE] to [BEING JUST RIGHT, and balanced for free!
[Andrew’s Analysis]
Hello everyone, I’m Andrew Kan and if I Kan you Kan too!
When it comes to background music in your videos, you want to make sure that your voice
isn’t competing with the music.
Music is important for your videos, it can help set the tone, help keep a viewer's interest,
or help with the story you’re trying to tell.
It can also be used for effect to distract.
Like stopping to bring attention to something, like If you’d like to learn more film-making
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However, a lot of the time people are competing for attention with their background music,
but in Adobe Rush, you can balance your music to your vocals!
Meaning that with adobe rush your vocals, and your background music blend together perfectly
to be more understandable to your viewer.
Adobe rush is free to install rush, and you can make edits on either your PC or your IOS/Android
mobile device if supported.
You can download premiere rush for free via my affiliate link in the description.
First, like any audio editing make sure you are using a good quality pair of studio headphones.
You’ll also need to find the right music.
I use a combination of web sites for my own music, but for simplicity,
I’ll be using YouTube’s FREE audio library for the music used in this example.
I’ve found a song I’d like to use, and I’ll place it in my audio now.
I think this helps keep me focused, and help the video a bit more interesting.
Let me know in the Poll on screen, do you use music in your YouTube Videos?
Let’s jump into premiere rush.
IF I simply just drag and drop my audio into rush, and then play it with this new recorded
clip here’s what it sounds like.
Here is the clip playing at full volume just dragged into side of Rush.
As you can hear the music is too loud.
You could just lower the song by clicking the audio section on the right hand side,
or if you’re on a mobile device you can select it by tapping on the track.
Then all you have to do is under audio basics, lower the clip volume.
I think I’ll lower this from 50 to about 25, and notice while we’re doing this you
can watch the audio waveform in the track getting affected.
Now, let’s hear an example:
Here is the clip going from full volume and NOW being adjusted to 25% volume!
Can you hear the difference let me know!
This is much better from the audio before!
You can also see how visually different the clip was when we first placed the audio on
the timeline compared to after we did some editing.
Notice that the Audio waveforms themselves are smaller.
You can just adjust gain like that in any editing software BUT it may not also have
the same effect you want.
That’s why Rush’s advanced audio editing comes into play!
You can get to the advanced audio sections, by click on audio types and selecting music,
to show Adobe Rush’s AMAZING auto ducking technology.
However, before we do that, let’s reset the background music to what it was before
we did the basic volume audio correction.
First click the audio you want to edit, or tap on it for mobile.
Then under advanced it will identify it as music.
The next thing you can do is select auto volume, and notice how on the channels section it
changes how the audio waveform.
Auto Volume automatically adjusts the volume level, so that the volume of your edited audio,
or in our case the music.
Matches the audio of the video.
Basically, Adobe rush helps balance the overall audio for you.
Which if you don’t know how to at the start is good, and then when you understand what’s
happening you can change it to your liking.
Like you and I will now!
You can also just hover over Auto Volume to see what it says.
I’ll show you what I mean with Auto Ducking!
Auto duck automatically turns down the background music.
Rush recommends to do this when their is other noises, or in our case voices present.
Once you apply the autoducking, you can then select how much ducking you want by moving
this slider here, or here on mobile devices.
Again fine tuning the background music, until it sounds right for you!
Keep practicing with the different levels until you get something that sounds good to
you.
This clip you’re hearing is my final edited mix of both voice and background music.
Check out that card on screen to balance your voice in rush.
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