[Sound effects and ambience sounds]
Jordy here for cinecom.net and we have again an extra video on Sunday.
And that's because Premiumbeat is sponsoring us today
and they have asked us to bake an egg.
But more importantly show you guys how we've done the sound design.
Premiumbeat is a huge library with music and sound effects that you can use in your personal,
but also commercial projects.
What makes their library stand out so much is their quality content.
All sound effects are recorded very clean and correctly.
But we'll dive a bit deeper into this throughout this video.
So, sound design is the process of adding sounds to your edit in post production.
These sounds could be recorded by yourself on set,
downloaded from a library like Premiumbeat
or completely self made with a computer.
There're various reasons why we should record the sound separate.
And the first one is to get a clear, crisp sound,
which makes the entire scene come more to life.
Ideally you wanna put your microphone close to an action,
but that will get the microphone in the shot.
And that's why we first recorded the video for the entire scene.
We wrote down the shots we took and the sounds we needed.
After that we started recording all those sounds.
In Premiere Pro I then also first edited the entire scene
and then looked for the sound recordings and synchronised it.
Now, when recording sound on set, you need to pay attention to the distance of the microphone.
If you made a close up of an action
you can place your microphone very close to that object as well.
But when you have a long shot or something,
you should have that microphone a little further away as well.
It wouldn't be natural to hear an up close sound when the camera is far away.
We had several sounds that where eventually recorded too close.
So in Premiere Pro I opened up the Essential Sounds panel.
With the right clip selected, I clicked on Sound Effect,
then enabled Reverb and changed the preset to Room Reverb.
This added a little bit more space to the sound, making it come from further away.
While I was editing the video, I noticed that I forgot to record several sounds.
And this is the first use where I would recommend to use a sound library.
I could simply look up the sounds that I needed,
import them inside Premiere Pro
and maybe adjust the reverb to match it with my scene.
And talking about matching the sounds, one of the most important aspects here...
is to pay attention to the volume of the different sounds,
in other words, the sound mix.
Not all sounds have to be at maximum volume.
With the volume you can lay focus on a certain action.
We've done that throughout the entire scene, but what stands out the most was probably...
...when I sniffed the egg to smell how delicious it was.
My emotion had to be emphasised, so I lowered the volume of the baking sound
and had my sniff at a higher gain.
Now having tons of these sound effects is great,
but you'll notice that there are many small gaps in between.
Here it's absolutely silent and you always wanna have some sound.
This is called the ambient,
and ideally you wanna record the silence of the room to fill in those gaps.
This is also called room tone.
Unfortunately we live near a crowded street,
so you'd be heaving cars passing by the entire time.
Not really the kind of ambient I was looking for.
So that's why I went again to Premiumbeat to find the right ambient sound for my edit.
I just placed this underneath the entire edit and adjusted the volume to my need.
In one of the shots I needed a certain power.
Like in the beginning where I pulled my hand out of the drawer.
We could increase the volume of my knuckles being pulled out,
but that wouldn't make it much more powerful, just louder.
I wanted to add more depth to it.
So what I did was recording some sounds of my clothes rubbing against each other.
I used a small piece of that when I pulled my hand out of it.
This made it more powerful and added a lot more dynamic...
than if I would've just pulled up that volume.
Other issues that we where running into was the splatter of the egg being a bit too sharp.
Now, we could dive into the equaliser and mess up the sound completely,
or use this very simply trick, which I actually use very often.
From the toolbox I pick out the Rate Stretch tool
and simply stretch the clip out a little.
And this will change its pitch making it sound deeper or higher.
The last tip that I wanna share with you guys is that...
...when you have specific sounds, like the baking effect, it always starts right away,
it kinda creates a clicking sound.
And a very simple way to fix that is by adding a gain transition to the beginning...
...and the ending of those clips for only one or two frames.
And that will literally take the edge off making it less sharp.
We also got the music from Premiumbeat, which was a nice addition to the scene.
Definitely make sure to check it all out,
you can find links to everything I've talked about in the description below.
Now, Premiumbeat actually has sound effect packs
which are very interesting when you are working on a specific project.
It's always better to purchase a pack, as that will save you a ton.
Plus you can use these sound effects unlimited times on commercial projects.
So you'll just need to purchase them one time.
Thank you Premiumbeat, thank you audience
and thank you chickens for the great eggs.
But most importantly...
...stay creative!