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Who watched Game of Thrones on Sunday?
That show is insane!
It's probably one of my favorite if not
my favorite show right now.
I haven't felt so excited to watch a TV show in forever
as last Sunday and I just in general love the state
of TV right now.
The fact that they have so much money to make these
insane TV shows.
I heard that they spent 55 days on one battle scene.
Just to put that into perspective,
a lot of movies are filmed in about two months.
Like the whole Hollywood movie.
55 days.
I can't imagine how many cameras
and how much footage they have
to cut down into just like probably like
a 30 minute sequence.
Just wild.
Anyways I forgot to edit the audio for this intro
so I'm gonna, just gonna drag and drop.
Done.
I think that sounds a little bit better.
Just a tad.
Okay so part of my mission as a Youtuber, filmmaker
kind of educator I guess
is to help you guys be better filmmakers.
To enable you guys to make things easier for you
and to help you make higher quality films.
And so last month or was it two months ago
I put out the Motion Graphic Templates.
A really easy way to animate your titles.
Basically just drag and drop.
Change the text.
That's it.
And I made that because we genuinely use those
every single day.
They speed up our work flow so much.
And I thought if that saves me time and adds quality
to my videos maybe, maybe you might wanna save time
and add quality to your videos.
So after I put those out and people just really loved them.
I started to think about the dreaded audio.
Just wait.
Wait, don't, don't click out yet.
It'll be good.
Don't worry.
I am not an audio person.
Just like, I'm sure, probably most of you are not
audio people, you'd rather focus on the visuals and stuff.
Sorry, audio people.
I don't mean to shun you or anything.
But it's so important to take some time
and to work on your audio.
To make it sound a little bit better.
And some people could ask like why,
why do I need to use any effects?
Why do I need to do anything with my audio?
It sounds fine.
That's kind of like saying why do I need to color grade
my log footage.
Or why do I need spices when I'm cooking.
You can get so much more out of your audio
if you just spend a little bit of time and
put a little bit of love into it.
But for Youtube and other filmmaking where you're
under a time crunch I guess that's kind of all filmmaking.
Maybe that's just all of life actually.
It's so much easier to just have a preset that you can
drag and drop and you're ready to go.
But audio is really hard.
There's just so much weirdness,
different plugins that you're not used to seeing
and you don't know how they work.
And it takes a lot of time
and even with a lot of time you might not be able
to get to a place where your audio actually sounds good.
I've made my own presets and, and they're, they're okay.
They're fine.
But they're definitely not the best.
Cause again I'm not an audio person.
And audio is really hard unless you just get a pro
to help you. (phone dialing)
I was gonna get you guys to say hi to my friend
who is an audio professional but I guess he's busy.
So Ryan Freeman, I asked him.
He's super good with audio.
And I asked him if he could help me make better
presets for myself.
And we spent a lot of time going back and forth
and well to be honest he spent a lot of time
making these presets to make audio, especially talking,
sound really really good.
And I thought if I'm spending all this time making
these presets, maybe you guys would want them also.
So if you want a way to make your audio sound
drastically better, especially your talking
and you want it with just one drag and drop click,
drag, drop.
Boom, done.
Ready to go.
Introducing the Matti Haapoja Premiere Audio Presets.
Yeah, sorry, these only work for Premiere.
Do not ask if they work for other programs
cause they don't.
And make sure you're on the newest version of Premiere
so you don't have any weird issues.
And these presets are really really easy to use.
First off to install them it's really easy.
Just go to your effects panel in Premiere.
And then you can make a custom bin or
just use the user presets one.
And you're gonna right-click on that.
Import preset.
And then just find the MH audio preset.
Now they're installed, simple as that.
And we have two folders here.
The first folder is your Background, your Foley,
and kind of your extra effects, which we'll talk about
a little bit later.
And then we have the voice processing.
Open that up and you're gonna have some different options
depending on who you are or who's talking in your video
and where you filmed it.
So for example if you have a female speaking
and you filmed it indoor you can go in there
and find the preset.
Or if you're a guy or you filmed the guy talking
and you're outside, there's a preset for you.
Once you found the right one we're gonna have
three options in there.
We're gonna have bright, damp, and then normal.
So bright is just a little bit more heavy on the high ends.
Damp is a little bit more bass heavy
and then your normal is normal.
That's the one that you're gonna use most of the time.
And then under that we're gonna give you three different
options and think of this
as kind of like opacity or power.
So there's a light, a medium, and a heavy.
And again the majority of the time you're gonna stick
to either the light, or the medium.
The heavy it's pretty heavy, but we wanted to give you
that option of having that if you really need it.
Then take the one that you want, for example medium here,
and then just drag and drop it onto your footage.
That's it really.
And you can hear the difference.
It's really drastic.
For example, here's the raw audio
coming out of this microphone,
and then here is with the preset added on.
It's a pretty big difference.
And it's just as easy as drag and drop you're done.
And we give you a bunch of different presets
that you can use, but in general you're gonna kinda
stick to the same one.
So once you've found the ones that you really like
you can save those ones separately or rename them
to something that you like.
So you can just search that one really quickly
and drag and drop.
Makes it a lot faster.
And basically there's just a bunch of different
audio filters that are cleaning up your audio
and just making it sound a lot better.
A little bit more rich
and just tweaking it the right way.
Adding that little audio spice to your audio.
The only thing that you might need to do
if your audio is too loud or way too quiet
is change the amplify effect.
And there's two different amplify effects.
But most of the time we're gonna be changing
the second amplify effect.
And so if your audio, you notice once you slap
that preset on there, if it's a little bit too quiet still,
just add a little bit more gain until it's at a good level.
That's it.
That's the only thing you're really
ever gonna need to tweak.
If your audio is crazy quiet, like really really quiet,
that's when we use the first amplify,
and add a little bit of gain there.
Just so the all the other presets effect the audio properly
because if it's coming in super low then the other presets
after that, they're not gonna work as well.
So that's the only time we were to use the first amplify
if your audio is really quiet.
So if you've dragged the audio preset on there
and you're noticing it's a little bit too quiet
just go into the second amplify and just turn up
the gain a little bit.
Don't go crazy with it.
Check the audio levels.
But yeah, that's all you're gonna need to do.
And just so you guys can see, or I guess hear
the differences in between the different versions
of the presets we're gonna start off with the light here.
So this is the light powered version.
Kind of like the lowest opacity.
And then we're gonna move into the medium.
So this is kind of the medium power.
Again I would stick to the light or medium.
And then this is the heavy version.
So this is pretty heavy, but maybe there's some
certain situations where you want it to sound like this.
And you can use this heavy preset.
And then we also have the damp.
So that's gonna be a little bit more bass heavy
and then the bright version which is gonna be a little bit
more focused in the high ends.
Oh and I recommend if you're recording your audio
always kind of record to about minus 12 dB.
That's kinda of where you want
your audio levels to be bouncing.
Again, I'm not an audio professional
but that's kind of where you want things to be.
You don't want your audio levels to be hitting the zero mark
all the time when you're recording.
Just to give yourself a little bit more safe space
for your audio.
We also included the Matti special which is basically
the audio preset dialed in for my setup.
The C300 with the Rode NTG3.
This exact setup.
And then also the EOS R with the Rode video mic pro.
Those are kind of the two setups that I use the most often.
So I just thought it would be fun to give you
the exact presets that I'm gonna be using.
Not that you need them because all the other presets
are great too, but I don't know.
I just felt like it was fun to throw those in also.
Okay so the most important, the meat of this preset pack,
is the voice processing, but there's also the extras.
First up we have Just Right, the Foley Cleanup.
So if you're using some Foley,
whether it's you know city sounds,
or a bird, you can just slap that on there.
And it's gonna make it a lot better.
It's gonna add that little bit of audio spice to your Foley.
Then we have some kind of creative audio effects.
And these you can use you know in your short films.
Or if you wanna be just a little bit more creative
in a Youtube video.
So for example we can make it sound like
you're on the telephone.
This one's a little bit distorted.
And if you wanted to be a little bit less stylized
or distorted you could just turn off the distortion.
And again I recommend that you guys look at the different
effects just so you kinda know what's going on.
You can learn from them and maybe
even make your own presets or tweak these to be even
more suitable to your recording.
Or let's say you want to go
Or maybe you just wanna feel like you're sucking
in helium all the time and you have that helium voice.
So those are really great.
But there's even more.
We also added some different reverbs.
For example, if you're supposed to be talking
in a big room you can use the Large Room Reverb.
Or if you just want some echo you can have some of that too.
So there's just a lot to this audio preset pack.
We really tried to think of everything that you would need.
Kind of all the basics.
Voice processing.
Foleys, some different effects.
All of the basics that you would need when you're
trying to tweak your audio and add that little bit of
spice into it.
And the best part is it's literally drag and drop.
It's gonna save you so much time each time
you're making a video.
It saves us time.
We have been doing this for a long time now
using an audio preset.
This one is just way better than we had originally.
And that means you're gonna save a lot of money
because it's gonna take you less time to make your videos
and let's face it, even if we tried
we spend hours, a lot of us, me included,
probably could never get to this point
of tweaking the audio.
We're just not that good when it comes to audio.
And these will basically last you forever.
These have a really long shelf life.
They're not super stylized or anything.
Audio is audio if you want it to make it sound good.
Here's some presets for you.
And for the launch they're gonna be 20% off.
So they're 39.99 if you're interested.
I'll link them down below.
I can't wait to see how you,
I keep saying see but I guess I should be saying
I can't wait to hear how you guys are using these.
And I can't wait to hear all of the feedback from you guys.
There was so much positive feedback when I put out
the Motion Graphic Templates.
I was really surprised by that.
But it makes sense.
I've been doing that for a long time
and it saves you so much time and
it adds that bit of quality that
that's really hard to do fast.
And you know who of us has extra time?
None of us have extra time so if we can save time
on these little steps like motion graphics or
editing your audio, that's really great.
That can make a big difference in your workflow.
Even if you don't have $40 to spare right now
I highly recommend trying to make your own presets
because it is gonna save you a lot of time
when you're trying to tweak your audio.
Okay, I think that's it for me.
I just love it when tech makes it way easier
for us to make videos and just focus on the more
important things, like story, instead of tweaking
audio, graph, curve things and pretending like we know
what we're doing.
Alright let me know what you guys think of the presets.
I would love to hear your feedback.
And yeah, I'm gonna go wait for the next episode
of Game of Thrones.
I can't believe I have to wait a week.
At the same time I kind of like the buildup,
the anticipation, the suspense, so yeah.
I don't mind.
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