Oh how I miss this Lake.
The sounds from a bird, wooden creeks from the dock.
A splash into the abyss.
The bubbles tickling my face, the cold air shivering my skin.
And yet the water beckons me back. It surrounds me.
It warms me in it lifts me up.
I feel strong and immortal in the water.
Something shifts inside me
The sounds of the world change underwater.
Hey, what's up everybody?
And welcome back to another Gal tutorial.
Now in this tutorial I'm going to be breaking down
sound design inside of Premiere pro
and I'm going to show you the workspace that I use, some
effects that I used from AudioHero
which I reached out to and they sponsored this video.
They provided the sound effects
and the music for the sound design and they're giving you guys 25%
off the Prodigy plan where you can get up to fifty sound effects.
and music downloads per month, so you can use
my code in the description box to claim that,
but the reason why I'm so excited about
this tutorial is I love sound.
It can really change
the way people feel when they're watching your video.
If there's poor sound people like what's going on
and if there's captivating sound they're even
more grabbed by your video.
So with this opening film I was actually inspired by
a lot of the sound effects and it helps shape the story.
It helped encapsulate the viewer and bring them in underwater.
So going to dive into premiere pro to show
you how I laid out all the different effects,
how I label the different tracks, how I mixed it together.
It's going to be a pretty fun tutorial, so thank you AudioHero
for giving you guys twenty
off and sponsoring this video, and let's go ahead
and jump on into Premiere.
So all of the sound effects and music besides
my voiceover are from
AudioHereo, I organized all of the
sound effects into different tracks.
For example audio track one only has the sonar beeps.
Audio track two has all the splash sounds and so on.
You see that I gave each track a custom name.
To give your tracks a custom name
go to your audio track mixer and at the bottom with the field. Here
you can type in any track name that you want,
but I want to show you how awesome it sounds
just with the sound effects only.
So let's click on the M button next
to both the music and voiceover tracks to mute them.
So now let's play it back to hear what
it sounds like with the sound effects only.
And afterwards I'll jump into some effects
that I added to create more of an underwater feel.
So let's dive into some of the effects that I added to the sounds
to make it all sound a bit more realistic.
So for the bubble sound effects here,
if we play the original clip I got from audio hero,
it actually sounds more like a person blowing
bubbles into water through a straw.
So let's play the original.
To make it sound like the bubbles are
more underwater, I went to Effects
And I searched for an effect called low pass.
I double clicked to apply it to the bubble clip in the timeline,
then from the effect controls
I dropped the cutoff down to around nine hundred
Hertz, which added some distortion,
making it sound more like it's underwater.
Now the lower the number here on the cutoff,
the more underwater like distortion you will get,
and now lets mute all the tracks
and play it back with the effect applied.
Another underwater trick you can do is
change the speed of an audio clip.
So for example, this dive in swim sound effect here.
If I double click to play the original from the source panel,
you can hear that it doesn't really sound like it's underwater.
So when I used this clip for this shot
of this guy swimming underwater
where the camera was underwater, I needed to slow down the audio
so I right clicked on the clip
and I went to speed/duration and dropped it down to seventy speed.
I also added a low pass filter at thirteen hundred Hertz.
Now let's mute all the other tracks
and you can hear that it now sounds like it's
much more realistic to underwater.
Another trick you can do is key frame the effects.
For example, in this opening shot
we start underwater and go above water.
So for the water like atmosphere effect, I keyframed
the low pass filter to go from nine hundred
all the way to the highest cutoff.
So if I mute all the other tracks
except for the water lake atmosphere
and then turn off the low pass filter,
you can hear what it sounds like before the low pass filter.
Now let's turn it back on and play it back.
By Keyframing the lowpass cutoff
you can make sound sound like it's going from
underwater to above water. And
I applied the same technique
anytime the camera went
above and below throughout the video edit.
So now let's move on to sound mixing
to mix all my sound together. I
actually used a VST3 AI plugin called
Alex Audio Butler that works at the track level
from the audio track mixer. I
clicked on the arrow to expand
the track level effects,
and then on each track I assign an audio type.
So for all the sound effects tracks
I applied the sound effects audio type for the music tracks. I
assigned music and voice for the dialogue tracks,
So what this will do is it will auto makes
all the sounds together at the correct level
and then for the master track you can choose to master all
of the sound for online distribution or broadcast.
The reason why I like this plugin is that
it doesn't use any keyframes
and it auto updates as you edit.
I made a whole tutorial on how to use Alex
Audio Butler, but essentially
tt's better than the essential sound panel
which only works at the clip level.
That said, though, I did use the Essential sound panel
to repair and add reverb to my voice over.
If I click on one of the voiceover clips here in my
timeline and open it up in the essential sound panel,
you can see I reduced some background noise.
I added in some DeEsser to remove any harsh S
sounds and a reverb to give my voice more atmosphere.
So the key takeaway and my key challenge for
you guys watching here is in your next video.
To spend a little bit more time on your sound design.
It will make a huge difference.
You may not be a sound mixer. You may not be experienced.
I certainly didn't go to school for sound design,
but with practice
and that intentionality every time you go to edit
and you do one more step. One
more effect, you start to build up your confidence
and your sound will start to sound great.
So that's my challenge.
spend a little bit more time on sound
and I would love to see what you guys create.
So thanks again to audio hero for sponsoring.
Don't forget to check them out.
Check out their sound effects, their music, their music beds,
all of that and share your films with me.
I'd love to see them. You can just DM
me directly on Instagram and I'll put my Instagram handle here.
So that's it. And I'll see you guys next time. Bye.