Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer
Marie, where I teach you different ways that you can
make money online and also teach you how to become a
YouTuber and make money with your own YouTube channel. So
in today's video, I'm going to teach you how to record and
add voiceovers for your YouTube videos, or for any
video that you want to create. This method will work for
videos for your website, videos for clients and your
YouTube videos. So before we get started, if you want more
videos on how to do video editing and audio editing,
click on the link in the description below to see my
playlist on all sorts of videos related to creating for
YouTube. So let's get started. There are three different
steps to recording editing and adding voice overs to your
videos. Step one is that we're going to record a voiceover
using a program like Audacity. Now, Audacity is completely
free, you can download audacity on your laptop, and
you can use Audacity not only to record your microphone, but
also to do editing to a pre recorded audio file. So you
can record directly into Audacity. Or let's say you
record your voiceover from your mobile phone. And then
you can import this file into Audacity and do some audio
editing there. So you can use your laptop or mobile phone
microphone if you can't afford a better microphone. Or you
can use an external plug in microphone for higher quality
results. So I often use my Blue Yeti microphone and I
will link you to the microphone I use in the
description below this video. Step two is that we will
remove background noise and edit out parts we don't want
to include. This is very simple, I'm going to show you
an easy way to do this with a das city. And finally step
three, you can use any video editing software, such as
filmora to combine the audio with the video. So in the
video editing software, we will split and sync the
voiceover so it matches with the video. And we will also
lower the volume of the background music so it doesn't
overpower the voiceover. So I'm going to teach you each of
these steps one by one. The first thing we're going to do
is record our voice over using Audacity. So let's open up
Audacity or download audacity if you haven't already. Okay,
so I've just opened up a data city. And what you're going to
do is you can either import an audio file that you have pre
recorded, or you can record directly into Audacity. So
let's say you already recorded a file and you want to make
some edits to the file. You can go File, Import Audio,
and then select the audio file that you want to import. And
you'll see that here it is imported. However, if you want
to record directly into Audacity, we're going to go
File New. And the first thing you need to do is select your
microphone from the list. So make sure your microphone is
plugged into your computer before you start recording. If
you plan on using your computer's built in
microphone, you can go ahead and select that from this list
here. This is your microphone, so select your microphone. And
this is where you will hear your audio. So if you want to
listen, after you record into your headphones, just click
your headphones or your speaker. So when you're ready
to record, just press record. So let's say you have your
script already ready to record, you can just click
record now you can see that these audio waves are quite
high. So you want to move down the recording volume so it's
not as loud you can see here that this is better. So just
adjust this, we can always increase the volume or
decrease it later. I'm going to press stop. So now let's
start again. Now that we've adjusted the volume, the first
thing you want to do is when you press record, don't say
anything for about 10 seconds. And that's because we want to
leave some space so that the program can identify the
background noise without you speaking so that we can remove
any constant background noise, so your end result file sounds
clearer. So let's press record. Leave about 10 seconds
of silence as your before you start speaking and then we
will edit that out later.
So when you're finished recording, just press the stop
button here. Okay, so now the first thing we're going to do
is remove the background noise. So click on this button
here which is the selection tool and select this amount of
space at the beginning. Because this is all the
background noise we want to remove. If we press play. You
can hear this is background
noise that we want to remove, we're going to go Effect
Noise Reduction, Get Noise Profile. Now, press Ctrl plus
A to select the entire clip, then Effect, Noise Reduction,
and okay.
And that will eliminate the majority of this background
noise from the entire clip.
So we're going to use this zoom tool to zoom up on the
audio. And now we can press the selection tool again and
highlight the beginning part just to erase this, and then
press the backspace to erase this. And since there's no
audio here, so to press play, you can press the play icon,
or press the spacebar on your keyboard. So I'm going to
press that and you can listen to the audio.
So you can hear
some breath noises here that I want to get rid of. So what
you can do as a quick way to eliminate this breath noise is
click on silence audio section. And that will
eliminate the noise right here. So just keep going
through your clip, and press play and listen to it. And you
can silence any parts you want to remove from the clip. So I
made a mistake here when I put this section. So if I want to
remove a section, I can just click and drag with the
Selection tool, the part that I want to remove, and then
press backspace, and that will eliminate that space in the
voiceover.
Again, here we have some more breath sounds. So I'm just
going to press silence audio selection, we're just going to
actually erase this NP hard, highlight it and then
backspace. And now we want to change the volume so that it's
not too loud, or if you want to increase the volume. So to
select the entire clip, press Ctrl plus A then effect,
amplify, and then I want it to be minus three. So I'm just
going to put minus three dB at the bottom here. And this will
amplify it by about 1.2 and then press OK. So this has
amplified it just a bit. You may also want to go to effect
a normalized and just normalize it to minus three.
I'm not going to do any compression for this.
But what I am going to do is now export this. So to export
once you're finished, you go to File, Export, and you can
choose Export as mp3 or export as a WAV file, which I prefer.
So just go to Export as WAV, then name your file. So let's
say Unboxing Review, birdie voice over, then press Save,
and then press OK. And it will export this file and you can
find it on your computer. So the next step is to import
this file to filmora or whatever video editor you're
using, and then sync it with our video.
Okay, so I've just opened up Filmora and this is the video
editor we're going to use to combine our video and our
voiceover. The first thing you're going to do is click
Import Media and select your video and your voiceover.
Next, you'll take your video and click and drag it onto the
video track on the timeline. In order to zoom up to see
this better, just click and drag. Or you can click this
button here to zoom to fit the timeline. And that will make
it easier for us to edit. Now we're going to take our voice
over and click and drag it onto one of the audio tracks
underneath. If your video clip already contains audio that
you want to erase, you can right click and go to mute.
And that will mute the audio from this clip. So the first
thing is you can see my voiceover is a bit longer than
the video. And because this video doesn't contain anyone,
visibly speaking, I can actually slow down the video
so that it will match the length of the voiceover. So
I'm going to right click and go to uniform speed.
And drag this down a bit so that it will match the length
of the voiceover to 0.95 should be good. And then press
OK.
And so now I want to make sure my voice over is going to sync
with what is happening on the screen. So I'm going to press
play.
I'm going to unbox these LED badminton birdies I ordered on
Amazon. Okay, so first I want to cut out the beginning of
this audio track, because this some there's some blank space
here and I wanted to start earlier. So I'm going to click
on the audio, then click the Split icon, then click on this
section here and press the Delete key on my keyboard and
that has deleted that section. And I can just click and drag
where I want this audio to start or end. So I'm going to
press play. I'm going to unbox these LED badminton birdies I
ordered on Amazon, you can see they come in this compact
tube, so they are protected from getting crushed. And I
want the second part of the audio to start a little later
since the tube pops up a little bit later. So I'm going
to click press split and then drag the clip to where I want
it to begin and this will help you sync it.
You can see they come in this compact tube, so they are
protected from getting crushed. The tube comes with
five different light-up birdies. Okay, again, I want
to split this here
and have this audio pop up when I actually start to show
the birdies.
The tube comes with five different light up birdies. To
activate the LED light, just look inside.
Again, we're going to click here and press split and have
this pop up when I actually start to show how to turn on
the light. To activate the LED light, just look inside the
birdie, and toggle the light switch on. For these birdies,
the light change colors ranging from red, green,
purple, blue, etc.
And let's say I want to cut out the ending because I talk
for too long, I can just press split, and then delete to
delete a section. And it's just that easy to sync up your
audio with your video clip. Now let's say you want to add
a background music track, you're gonna click Import
Media and select your song. And what you can do is click
on the song and drag it to the second audio track. If you
need to add another track, you can click on Manage tracks and
choose Add Video or add audio track. So what we first want
to do is end the background music when the video ends and
the other voiceover ends. So just go to around here, click
on the background music track and click the Split icon, then
delete this section.
I'm going to zoom up a bit by clicking on the timeline and
dragging to the right. And then here I can at the end,
click and drag and will snap to the end of the video. Now
to create a fade out, I can double click on it. And here,
drag this up and it's creates a fade out at the end you can
see how it fades out. You can drag it like this or like this
and bring the volume down a lot so that it will not
overpower the voiceover. So what we can do is press Play
to preview.
And just lower the background music enough so that it won't
overpower the voiceover. "I'm going to unbox these LED
badminton birdies I ordered on Amazon."
Now I created this voiceover with just my computer
microphone. Of course it will sound much nicer if you record
using a professional microphone or even an
affordable version like the Blue Yeti. But I wanted to
show you that it's possible to create a good quality video
just using your computer microphone or your phone
microphone. So once you're ready to export, just click
Export > Create video.
Then under mp4, we're going to put unboxing video with voice
over and then export and that will export your video. So
once this is done exporting, we're going to press play and
you can see our final product. "I'm going to unbox these LED
badminton birdies I ordered on Amazon.
You can see they come in this compact tube, so they are
protected from getting crushed.
The tube comes with five different light up birdies.
To activate the LED light, just look inside the birdie
and toggle the light switch on.
For these birdies the light changes colors ranging from
red, green, purple, blue, etc. They look especially cool at
nighttime. And here you can see we tested them out at
night with our badminton rackets. This makes badminton
a sport you can play all day long as you can easily see the
birdie at nighttime." So it's just this easy to add a
voiceover to any of your videos that you want to add on
YouTube. If you want to access Filmora you can get a feel
more by clicking on the link in the description below this
video. And you can also get links to more of my other
videos on video editing and audio editing to get you
started as a YouTube creator. Thank you guys for watching.
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