- I wanna show you a super simple way
to clean up your audio,
and this method is pretty wild.
So my buddy, Dave Mays turned me
onto the software called Auphonic,
and it just changes the game
when it comes to finishing a video,
especially for here on YouTube.
If you have bad audio,
whether it's mixing or the sound quality or anything,
it's gonna cause your viewer to not be as interested.
Could you imagine if the audio was super low for one section
and then super loud for another and then super low,
and then you have music
and you can't hear what someone's saying,
and then there's sound effects and then there's wind?
(Jeven imitates static crackling)
Wouldn't be good.
You want audio to be clean across the entire video.
So there's a few things that you wanna do
to clean up your audio before you hit Export.
Now, one of those things that you wanna do is make sure
that the sound is consistent from beginning to end.
And if there's a lot of background noise,
you wanna clean that up so it's not distracting.
So let's take a look at one of my projects.
This was a video I released recently.
It's a video that I did all around the DJI Action 2.
I went out into the desert
and showed kind of behind the scenes
on how I craft a video using a small little action camera
and how I use it in a bunch of different ways.
Now, when you look at this timeline,
it's a 15 minute video,
there's a lot of dialogue,
and I shot a lot of it using the DJI mic.
But as I'm making this video, you could see
that there's different things going on in the background
and I'm kind of moving all over the place.
In this shot here, I'm holding the mic right up to my mouth.
In this previous shot, it's on my shirt and I'm in a car.
In this shot, I'm outside and there's some background noise.
You can see the Jeeps in the background.
So there's just a lot of different types of audio,
even though I'm using one mic for this entire video.
Now, when I pulled this into my software,
the audio levels weren't perfect.
It's not always perfect when you're out recording,
and that's why you wanna do an audio mix
before you export your video.
And that's where this website comes in.
It's called Auphonic.
Before you even touch your audio,
you can send it through this website
and it's gonna do all of the cleanup for you,
and it's going to do it by section.
So it's not like a blanket plugin
that you put over everything.
It's actually going through and using automation
to figure out where the peaks and valleys are
and how you can clean it all up.
So this isn't a sponsored video or anything like that.
This is actually just a piece of software
that I have been using on almost all of my videos
since I've learned about it.
So let me show you how I use this for my videos.
Back in Final Cut, you could see
I have some music here and here.
Well, I set up everything with roles.
So if I go over to Index and pull up my roles,
I can see in my dialogue track,
I can have all of my dialogue here,
and then all my music is on a different timeline.
If I have sound effects,
I would also make that a separate role as well.
And so when I go to Export in Final Cut,
I go to my Roles tab and I separate it as separate audio.
So I have all my music and all my dialogue,
and I'm gonna just get rid of all my music
so I'm only exporting my dialogue.
And then I'll export just the dialogue,
and that's what I'm gonna use to bring up to Auphonic.
Now, before you get to this stage,
you wanna make sure that the video is cut and done.
You don't wanna be going through and doing edits.
So this is something you do
towards the end of the video process.
You might do your audio sweetening and color grading last.
And so you wanna make sure all your cuts are done
because what you're gonna do
is upload this file to Auphonic,
and it's gonna send you back a file
that then you're gonna use in your edit.
So let's jump over to Auphonic.
And I'm gonna start a new production,
and I'm just gonna call this Action 2 BTS Video,
and I'm going to upload the file that I just exported.
Now you can add a bunch of different data here,
but all I really do is add a title,
and then I go down to my Audio Algorithms.
So these are the different things
that you have access to just on the free account.
So if you wanna to try this out,
you can get up to two hours of content for free,
so they basically pay by the minute.
So I'm still on the free account
because my videos are only 8 to 10 minutes, sometimes 15,
so I've been using this on multiple videos so far,
and I'm still on a free account.
Once I hit that limit, I'm gonna start paying.
But the tools you have access to is first,
an Adaptive Leveler.
And this basically looks at all the audio and corrects it
so that it's all at the same level
so that you don't have these highs
and you don't have these super lows.
It basically makes it seamless.
It's like a compressor.
Next, you have Loudness Normalization.
So this will basically raise everything to a certain level.
You can add on a high pass filter,
which is gonna clean up dialogue,
and it's gonna remove any unnecessary low frequencies.
Then you can also do a Noise Reduction and Hum Reduction.
The cool thing about this is you're not having to go
into your editing software
and twist dials and add-on plugins.
This software is doing it all for you,
so it's going through and basically key framing
as you have to do to go clean up little sections.
So you're gonna start your production,
you're gonna click Go,
and basically you just leave the browser open
and it takes a few minutes depending
on how long your audio file is.
And then it's all cleaned up.
Now, here's one of the coolest parts.
When your audio's done, it shows you an input and output,
and you can see how my audio levels were all over the place.
And then it shows how the audio was cleaned up
and how it was normalized.
And so now I can go through and download this file,
bring it onto my computer,
and I'm gonna bring it into Final Cut.
Now for my Final Cut users,
I will add an audio role of Auphonic,
I've actually made that a category,
and then I'll take my dialogue and I'll mute all of that.
Now you replace all this audio on your timeline
with the Auphonic file and you're ready to export.
Now, this is just for dialogue cleanup.
So if you have music, if you have sound effects,
you're gonna wanna mix those
before you actually export your video
to make sure all the levels are correct.
And so if I have a more complex edit,
the next step that I would take is go through
and mix my music and sound effects
to make sure they fit with the file
that I now produced out of Auphonic.
So, next, you need to make sure
you check out this video right here,
which goes through the video
that I was talking about in this video,
which is actually about another video
that I did on my second channel.
So it's a video within a video within...
Just watch this video.