In this video You’ll learn how to make your voice sound better for video FOR FREE!
Taking your audio from this [Let them listen to bad audio] to this!
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Hello!
I’m Andrew Kan, and if I kan you Kan too!
When it comes to the video, audio is 50% of the experience.
You’ll learn how to make your voice sound better in video FOR FREE!
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When people start in film-making, they record audio from the camera, an external microphone,
or even a professional boom mic into a recorder.
However, they might be unsure how to edit the audio past that.
I know I was when I started, but I’m going to be showing you premiere rush’s advanced
audio panel, and how you can make your voice sound better FOR FREE!
To get started you’ll need to download premiere rush, which is a free video editor.
Those of you with a creative cloud subscription might have rush included in your package!
If you don’t have rush, you can download it using my affiliate link in the description!
You can also install rush on your android or IOS device.
Stick around until the end of this video to learn how you can edit audio and video like
this on your mobile device!
--In Rush you can edit pre-recorded audio, or record your own voice overs to clips!
We’re going to use a pre-recorded clip, so to get started.
You’ll name your project here, and then select the clip you want to use!
Once your clip is loaded in, let's expand the editing track by clicking this icon in
the bottom left corner.
I like expanding the tracks, because it lets me see more of my video editing timeline!
After that, we’ll select this blue plus in the top left hand corner, and select “voice
over.”
To start recording your own voice over, this red button button will appear on your timeline.
Wherever your playhead is located, is where your voice over starts recording!
Premiere Rush then gives you a three second countdown until you can record!
Premiere rush will then add your voice over to an empty audio track for you, so you don’t
have to worry about recording over existing audio.
It’s important to note that editing your audio can only do so much.
How close your recording device is to your subject, using a high quality microphone,
finding a good area to record, and using acoustic treatment will give you better results!
I’ll let you hear a clip recorded on my panasonic g7 with a rode videomic, so you
can listen to what the audio sounds like without audio editing.
“This is what my voice sounds like in my living room”
You can hear there is some ECHO,and that I'm competing with my AC unit.
We're going to select control 5 on windows or command 5 if you’re on a mac to open
the audio panel!
You could also just select the audio icon on the right hand side.
Here you’ll see three different selections!
Basic, advanced, and channels.
Basic lets you control the volume of the audio, or mute the audio track if you’d like.
You can raise the volume by moving the slider all you have to do to reset it is double click
on the point, and it will reset to defaults.
Next is Advanced, but before we look there, go ahead and select channels.
This will let you see your left and right audio channels.
If you select one of them it will mute that channel.
You’ll want this up, so when you're making changes to the audio, you can see the changes.
That said let’s look at advanced audio settings.
Premiere Rush will automatically detect what type of audio it’s found!
In our case it’s noticed the audio was a human voice.
However, you can change this to either music, or other.
One of my favorite things is if you hover over some of these options, you can see previews
from adobe about what each section does.
As you can see, auto volume applies to your entire project to keep the audio level.
You may also notice it’s affected our channels section.
I’ll select channels here, and it will change the audio levels.
Balance sound raises the volume on the lower sounds, and lowers the higher sounds.
This is helpful if multiple people are talking at different volume levels!
Reduce background noise removes steady background noise that might be distracting.
Like a fridge hum, cars passing by, or even talking in the distance.
Reduce echo helps reduce the echo, sound reflection, and reverb in the audio.
Finally Premiere rush has presets to make either male or female voices sound better.
A combination of all of these effects can really make your voice sound better.
I love that adobe includes these useful animation reminders when you hover over an effect, so
you can see what it does.
Since every clip is different you have to know how your space sounded.
When editing audio you’ll want a good pair of headphones Put those headphones on, and
let’s edit the audio!
I usually select auto volume, and balance sound.
However, this is where your personal preference comes in.
Everyone's different, and do what YOU believe to sound the best.
Since I know there is background noise in my clip, I’ll select reduce background noise,
but if YOU don’t have noticeable background noise you can leave it alone.
However, I know there is the hum of my AC, so I remove that and set the intensity slider
a little higher than standard.
Again experiment to what YOU think sounds best.
Next I’ll select reduce Echo.
I know that there is a good amount of echo in the room I recorded this in, but every
room has a slight echo, so I’ll lower this while keeping the effect on.
Then I select enhance speech.
I’ll choose the male preset since I have more bass in my voice.
However, if you have a higher pitched voice the female preset might make more sense, but
use what works best for YOUR voice.
Everything you’ve done on the desktop version can be done as EASILY on the mobile version.
Let's load Premiere Rush either on your Android or IOS device!
In the Mobile app, if you’ve loaded a clip on the computer into rush, and want to edit
the sound on the go, rush will be able to cloud store it up to 2GB on the free version,
so you can continue to edit that clip on from your computer on your mobile phone.
All changes you make to go will also save to your computer!
Just make sure to have a high quality pair of headphones while editing on your phone!
Just like the desktop, all of the audio editing properties are there when you’re editing
on your mobile device!
Now that we’ve edited our clip, let’s move on to the sound test:
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If you’re happy with your edited audio, select share here.
Then, choose where you want to publish your video.
I’ll render the video locally, and then select the folder I wish to render this video
to.
Then let’s look at the quality options.
I recorded at 4K resolution at 24FPS, so I’ll select advanced.
You’ll see a drop down click it and select the video quality that rights for you.
For me it’s YouTube 4K.
Once you’re happy with your settings, let it render, and you are ready to share out
your video!
It’s important to note that free users will only get three rendered videos out, but you
can practice and test as many projects as you’d like!
That’s how EASY it is to make your voice sound better FOR FREE!
There are some limitations of the free version, but it’s an amazing software to use.
If you’d like to see the premiere pro's version of this subscribe and the ring the
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Audio again, is half the battle, so having a tool like this is powerful!
Remember, I’m Andrew Kan, and if I kan you kan too!