hey what's up you guys and welcome back to Gal in this video I'm going to show
you how you can bring your video to life through sound
so you guys right now I actually have the Manfrotto Lumimuse light strapped
to my shoe right now and it's illuminating my face couse it got so dark
anyway i just thought it was funny and i had to tell you that basically this
video is about how sound can really bring your video to life and Peter
McKinnon made a great video about showing how sound effects and adding
ambience to your video can make it sound so much better and so much more
professional so what I'm going to do right now is roll a few clips of b-roll
that I shot here in the forest accompanied with some sound effects that
I got from Soundsnap which is an awesome site where you can download
heaps of awesome sounds from clicks - pops - people running ambience musical
beats a whole bunch of stuff and I accompanying it with some of the sound
that I recorded with my H4n zoom recorder so let me roll the clips here
so you guys can listen to the difference
so what you just heard was a compilation of a bunch of different sounds to make
the video more believable and more real not every sound effect you heard in
there was recorded in the scene which is awesome I actually took tons of sounds
from Soundsnap like birds chirping the steps just the ambience all of th at came
from Soundsnap and I used some of the recorded sound that I recorded from my
h4n so how did I layer these sounds and make them sound more real now this is
where we're going to jump into Premiere Pro and show you how I use the Essential
sound panel to make it sound more authentic so let's jump in alright you
guys so we're inside a Premiere Pro here and here I have the sequence of shots
just with the music track in the timeline here so you can see it's just
the shots that I showed you before and what I'm going to do is show you how to
add the sound effects so the first step here is I'm in the audio workspace make
sure that you are as well if you're following along so that way you have
the Essential sound panel open if you don't have this open just go to window
Essential sound so the first step is to normalize the audio of the music track
so it's not too powerful so first select it now let's click on music as the audio
type and this will give you a whole bunch of different controls and what I
like to do is just Auto match and you can see that it reduces the actual
loudness of the music clip so if I play it back right now
it's like between minus 12 and like negative 24 decibels so if you wanted to
make this a little bit more quieter you could just reduce the clip volume here
just by reducing this down let's say 2 minus 5 or minus 7 it's really just up
to listening and seeing how it sounds so I think we'll just leave it at this for
now and then we'll decide after we add in the sound effects if it's still too
loud so the first sound effect that I want to add in is the general forest
ambience now I got this forest ambience from Soundsnap so what I did is I just
searched for ambience and I downloaded it and I dragged it here into my folder
so if I double click you can listen to identify the portion of the ambience
that you want to select and use in your edit so let's just play this back so
let's say we wanted to start here just hit I for In and let's just scrub forward
and hit O for Out and then this audio here I'm going to drag it down just here
onto one of the audio tracks it doesn't matter which one right now because we
will reorganize so let's just play this back with the music
and with this off if you just hit M here and then turn it back on
it already gave it so much more texture and atmosphere like we were inside of
the forest so now what we want to do is just make sure it is leveled correctly
so just click on that and now believe it or not there's an ambience tag for audio
type so just click on this and here what we can do is we can choose a preset if
we wanted to I'm actually just going to automatch it to make sure that the
loudness level is correct for broadcast standard that is what lufs is it's just
the broadcast standard I won't worry too much about it but I always like to set
it and listen back if it's still too loud let's just play it
so right now it's a little bit loud but what I like to do is just reduce the
clip volume so I'm just going to reduce this like by negative 9 and let's see
how it sounds
now we need to add in more nuance - sounds like the water so I actually
recorded with my h4n zoom the stream of water here so I'm going to go to this
folder in my project panel and audio clip I used was 003 so let's open that
up and let's just listen back so I'm just going to start the clip here hit I
for In and then I'll hit O for Out and then I'm just going to drag it like before
and you can see here in the timeline by the way a quick tip if you need to
expand a layer and your timeline just double click next to it in this empty
space double click and it expands it which is pretty cool and double click to
close it so here at this moment there is still water right so we need to drag out
this audio sound effect of the stream and now if we play it back let's just
listen to see what we have to do
so what we need to do first is make sure that the loudness standard is correct so
just click on it go to sound effects now from essential sound and what we can do
now is add presets based on where this sound is coming from so this is pretty
close up here and so is this so what we're going to do is choose a preset
called make close-up and see how it just boosted the audio levels there that's
because it automatically applied the auto match to this clip now if we play
it back you'll hear that it is quite a bit louder and I think it's actually too
loud because it's getting almost up to zero which means it's peaking so what I
need to do is just reduce the volume a bit let's say down to like -8 and let's
play back that's sounding better but what I want
to do here is at this moment it's a more distant shot so what I'm going to do is
just hit C to cut at this moment where the clip changes and then I'm going to
select this clip and then rather than make close-up I'm going to select make
distant because that's going to match what our actual ear would be hearing if
we were standing at this location in the shot right it's all about proximity and
distance to the subject in the sound so here it automatically boosted it and
it's pretty loud and I don't want it to be that loud so what I'm going to do is
reduce this way down to minus 13 and let's see if we can hear the difference
in sound between these two clips and it's believable because it's based on
where the viewer would be seeing this subject the water and hearing it in real
life so that is the first three clips now let's move on to this clip so to
make this nicely fade-out by the way what I like to do is zoom in here and
then I right click to add a default transition and then I just kind of
extend it out a bit so that way it transitions nicely out into the next
clip so it just adds a default transition on the audio clip
so then here what I did was I kept the forest ambience like we have here
because we want that forest ambience it's the same scene so let's just extend that
to make sure it's the exact length of the little sequence we have here but now
what I want to do in addition to having the forest ambience is to add some birds
so I took some woodpecker sounds from Soundsnap double click and it's very
quiet if you play it back do you hear that ? it's so quiet it's almost too quiet
so what we need to do is actually brighten this up inside of the timeline
so let's just go ahead and drag this little portion of it down
and then let's click on it go to sound effects again and let's choose make
medium shot and you can see it just boosted the audio waveforms if I double
click you can see before I did that there was nothing but then when I hit
make medium shot look what happened see ? now let's play back so you can really
hear the birds now and you can also hear all of the background noise as well
which I want to try to reduce a little bit so what I'm going to do is identify
the moment that I want the birds to come in so right here I want to cut just by
rolling that edit back then I'm going to move this over here I'm going to add a
cross-dissolve just by right-clicking and applying a
default transition so it fades in
now the birds are very present right but I still think that the background is a
little bit too loud so what I'm going to do is just reduce the clip volume just a
bit down to like minus eight let's see how it sounds
and now it sounds a lot better it's almost like you're painting with sound
right it just it's a very subtle nuanced process of really just bringing your
video to life and painting in the sound now we may want to get rid of some of
the noise so I'm going to actually search for the denoise audio effect I'm
just going to drag and drop it on this clip now from effect controls we can
actually hit edit and from here we can choose light noise reduction now let me
play it back and I'll turn the effect on and off so you can hear what it sounds
like with denoise reduction that's with it off and on and it just very
subtle just listening back again this is with it on - off
and on so it's just a very subtle amount of noise reduction which I like so
that's all for this clip so I'm just going to roll this edit back and also
add a default cross dissolve at the end of that now here this is the fun one
where I'm actually matching footsteps that I got from Soundsnap so you can
see here I have some footsteps that I downloaded if I double click so you can
listen and what I want to do is match them to when my feet hit the ground here
so just to choose a footstep that you like you can actually hit I for In and
O for Out and then we're just going to drag that down into the timeline and
then match it right when my foot starts to hit the ground and just gotta line it
up right when my foot hits the ground right about there and then my second
foot is right about here so then I just go back to take another sound using in
and out and drag it to win my foot basically hits the ground right about
here and it kind of blends into the next
scene which I think is a cool transition some people may want to fade it out
before the scene it really just depends on your preference so let's just listen
to that
so just really subtle right now to make a little bit more atmosphere once we get
to the forest scene maybe there's some more woodpeckers here but let's not
choose the same sound because we don't want to repeat the same birds I actually
download it another woodpecker sound from Soundsnap there's a ton of bird
effects but there's a lot of woodpeckers in this neck of the woods so let's just
double click and you can listen back so it's a bit more intense more wild let's
just go ahead and drag this down here and I don't want all of the birds
chirping I'm just going to take two of the sounds so I'm just going to roll
this edit back and then I'm going to cut right here and delete this portion of
the clip then just drag it over so now when we play back the birds come in
after or while the second step is happening
now it's just too loud it's cool but it's too loud so what I'm going to do is
just click on this go to sound effects again and this time I'm going to choose
make distant and you can see just reduce the level of this audio again just
slightly so what I'm going to do is just reduce it even more because it wasn't
enough and let's play it back
so you can see that everything is just nicely under around minus 12 to minus 18
a little bit lower than that is just fine once again you don't want anything
up in the 0-6 because that's when it starts to get a little bit too loud you
want it to be nice and subtle so the last step for me is just to add some
fades to the end of the sequence to kind of close out the video so at the end I
just right-click to apply a default cross dissolve and let me just zoom in
so you can see it better I'm just going to drag the end of it and pull it out
and now from effects I'm going to search for exponential fade which is a audio
crossfade and then I'm going to drag and drop it to apply it to the end of this
clip and then roll it out to meet the cross dissolve and then I'm going to
click on this command C to copy and then I'm going to hold shift to select the
two other remaining audio clips and press command V to paste it and now it
just fades out nicely see pretty cool so the last step is just to watch it
through just to make sure there's nothing else that stands out or doesn't
feel right
and so nothing seemed too loud there again it's just a process of going
through and making sure nothing is too loud or really kind of sitting down and
thinking what is authentic here so audio editing does take some time but I have
so much fun with it and I hope that you guys now have the tools to make your
audio sound awesome as well so thanks so much for watching everyone a special
shout out to Soundsnap for sponsoring this video if you guys want to try it
out for free be sure to check it out with the link below and you guys can get
set up with a free month or something like that just reach out to Soundsnap
and they'll hook you up and if you guys are looking for headphones to mix I
definitely recommend these meze 99 classics not only do they smell like
wilderness literally it's walnut it's pretty amazing you guys should check
this out and if you want to record your own sound you can check out the h4n zoom
which I use to just record using the mics that are built-in so when you're
outside like I am you can get some pretty awesome sounds and you can layer
in your video like I showed you inside of Premiere Pro so that's all you guys
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