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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,498 --> 00:00:10,279 Hi there, in this video we're going to bring in some audio. 2 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:11,787 We're going to put it into some folder. 3 00:00:11,812 --> 00:00:13,287 We're going to bring in some music... 4 00:00:13,312 --> 00:00:15,248 and look at where to get some of that for free. 5 00:00:15,411 --> 00:00:19,138 And then we're going to balance it so that my voice isn't so low... 6 00:00:19,424 --> 00:00:21,024 and the music is down a bit... 7 00:00:21,049 --> 00:00:22,892 so you can hear underneath me, let's hit it. 8 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:25,963 The Value of Sleep for Creatives. 9 00:00:27,421 --> 00:00:30,062 It's made me sound a little more like I know what I'm doing. 10 00:00:30,249 --> 00:00:32,799 Anyway let's get on with the chorus... 11 00:00:33,134 --> 00:00:35,226 so I know what I'm dealing with, most of the time. 12 00:00:35,421 --> 00:00:37,937 Okay, let's deal with audio properly in this video. 13 00:00:37,962 --> 00:00:40,289 So we're dealing with a voice over, that's me. 14 00:00:43,351 --> 00:00:46,078 Obviously, if you're doing your own voice over... 15 00:00:46,103 --> 00:00:48,228 it makes it easy, if you've got a half decent mike... 16 00:00:48,253 --> 00:00:49,334 it's pretty easy to do... 17 00:00:50,364 --> 00:00:52,739 but probably you're going to be like most people... 18 00:00:52,764 --> 00:00:55,224 and hate the sound of your own voice, me included... 19 00:00:55,802 --> 00:00:57,661 but it was cheaper to do my own voice over... 20 00:00:57,686 --> 00:00:59,677 than paying somebody else for this exercise... 21 00:00:59,708 --> 00:01:01,074 so you got stuck with me. 22 00:01:01,099 --> 00:01:02,583 If you're doing a higher talent... 23 00:01:02,661 --> 00:01:05,724 what I do is I go out to a site like Fiverr. 24 00:01:07,169 --> 00:01:10,630 Fiverr is a site, you're meant to pay $5 or Euros. 25 00:01:11,020 --> 00:01:13,026 And it's what people will do for $5. 26 00:01:13,051 --> 00:01:15,645 This guy will do a voice over here for US $5. 27 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:18,418 That's the Euro translation, or the currency exchange. 28 00:01:18,443 --> 00:01:21,012 And if you click play, you can listen to Todd. 29 00:01:24,278 --> 00:01:25,306 Hello Todd. 30 00:01:26,192 --> 00:01:26,903 Great! 31 00:01:27,310 --> 00:01:30,317 So he'll do that, for $5, a certain amount of words. 32 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,732 It seems cheap, but bank on it being about $25-$50 depending. 33 00:01:35,757 --> 00:01:40,695 Because he might say he'll do the first 50 words for $5... 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,163 or the first 10 words, whatever his rates are. 35 00:01:43,296 --> 00:01:45,296 And you might have to go further than that. 36 00:01:45,321 --> 00:01:47,540 And if you want it done, like he'll say it's $5... 37 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:49,367 but I'll do it when I get around to it... 38 00:01:49,392 --> 00:01:52,007 maybe a week, or if you want it done straight away... 39 00:01:52,288 --> 00:01:54,869 you might have to pay another $10. 40 00:01:54,924 --> 00:01:56,093 It kind of adds up. 41 00:01:56,210 --> 00:01:59,703 And by adding up, 25 bucks is pretty cheap for a voice over. 42 00:01:59,867 --> 00:02:03,624 So just have a go through, and decide, do I need a Caribbean voice over... 43 00:02:03,649 --> 00:02:07,033 or do I need this guy, or that guy? 44 00:02:10,497 --> 00:02:13,588 He has a great, like normal voice. 45 00:02:14,559 --> 00:02:15,695 If you need somebody who's Irish... 46 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:17,091 if you need somebody who's Australian... 47 00:02:17,116 --> 00:02:18,919 or English, just type it in up here. 48 00:02:19,106 --> 00:02:21,349 I just typed in 'voice over' to get these guys. 49 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,746 It's amazing what you can get done, quite quickly, and cheaply. 50 00:02:26,325 --> 00:02:28,505 So we've got our voice over, back to After Effects. 51 00:02:29,528 --> 00:02:31,131 So when you are working with audio... 52 00:02:31,156 --> 00:02:33,817 especially a voice over, often you need to time things to it. 53 00:02:33,850 --> 00:02:35,927 You can see, I've added little markers down here. 54 00:02:35,952 --> 00:02:38,263 We'll look at these markers a little bit later on. 55 00:02:38,288 --> 00:02:40,481 I've added them here, so at this early stage... 56 00:02:40,506 --> 00:02:43,622 we can add our Infographics at different timing points. 57 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:45,317 But if you need to edit audio... 58 00:02:45,342 --> 00:02:48,294 what you really need to do is, something on Audition, it's down here. 59 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:50,957 So I've recorded into Audition, and did any edits... 60 00:02:50,982 --> 00:02:54,552 so I cut out all the ums and ahs, and made it sound half decent. 61 00:02:54,778 --> 00:02:57,888 In Audition, if you need, you remove background noises. 62 00:02:58,098 --> 00:02:59,770 The air conditioning noise, something like that... 63 00:02:59,795 --> 00:03:01,427 that's the job for Audition. 64 00:03:01,669 --> 00:03:03,747 And I'll do a course about that real soon. 65 00:03:04,887 --> 00:03:06,973 And we've got our mp3s, it's come through. 66 00:03:07,145 --> 00:03:08,677 One of the things you might want to do is... 67 00:03:08,702 --> 00:03:11,825 see I can twirl down this little arrow here, and go to Waveform. 68 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:14,418 Waveform is really handy, you can start to see where the breaks... 69 00:03:14,731 --> 00:03:17,552 in the language are, you can see the pause there for a little bit. 70 00:03:17,669 --> 00:03:19,599 So you can start timing things, like... 71 00:03:19,645 --> 00:03:21,481 I'm probably starting to say something about here. 72 00:03:21,506 --> 00:03:22,419 I'm going to hit space bar. 73 00:03:24,005 --> 00:03:25,942 You can see I've got the beginning of the conversation there. 74 00:03:25,967 --> 00:03:27,677 I often have this open when I'm trying to... 75 00:03:27,702 --> 00:03:30,996 time Infographics to an audio file like this. 76 00:03:31,021 --> 00:03:32,544 So I'm going to twirl it up at the moment. 77 00:03:32,997 --> 00:03:34,216 Now one of the big things is... 78 00:03:34,241 --> 00:03:36,716 you wouldn’t have seen, I had that open already but... 79 00:03:37,630 --> 00:03:40,668 when I hit Play for this, it's quite quiet. 80 00:03:40,942 --> 00:03:43,770 You won't really notice it when you're working on your projects. 81 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:45,731 You need to check, whenever you bring in audio... 82 00:03:45,756 --> 00:03:47,591 to check whether it's at the right level. 83 00:03:47,872 --> 00:03:50,138 You don't want to send your Infographics somewhere... 84 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:52,356 and people be listening to it... 85 00:03:52,450 --> 00:03:54,317 and it either blow their ear drums out... 86 00:03:54,342 --> 00:03:57,301 or just be really, really low, and they raise the volume... 87 00:03:57,332 --> 00:03:59,481 and in the next video, it blows their ear drums out. 88 00:03:59,739 --> 00:04:03,185 So you want to get consistent, there's a world of consistency sound. 89 00:04:03,413 --> 00:04:06,562 And it's between -6 and -12. 90 00:04:06,976 --> 00:04:07,897 Minus is weird, huh? 91 00:04:08,038 --> 00:04:10,535 Just about it works from 0 being the highest... 92 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:11,766 and we work down from that. 93 00:04:12,038 --> 00:04:13,827 How to check? It's quite easy. 94 00:04:13,852 --> 00:04:16,491 Go to 'Window', down to 'Audio'. 95 00:04:16,616 --> 00:04:18,803 Or in my case, there's that little gap there. 96 00:04:19,077 --> 00:04:21,240 And this little guy is what we're going to be watching for. 97 00:04:21,265 --> 00:04:24,429 And see the gap between -6 and about -12. 98 00:04:25,356 --> 00:04:26,583 If I hit space bar, watch it. 99 00:04:27,856 --> 00:04:29,059 See it bouncing down here. 100 00:04:30,020 --> 00:04:31,247 It's bouncing too low. 101 00:04:31,317 --> 00:04:34,106 You want that little line to be bouncing anywhere... 102 00:04:34,138 --> 00:04:37,676 between here and here, is a good kind of general range. 103 00:04:37,701 --> 00:04:39,598 And you kind of see red, but... 104 00:04:40,310 --> 00:04:43,145 yellow, just okay, but in here is the sweet zone. 105 00:04:43,512 --> 00:04:45,090 All you need to do is, have it selected. 106 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,918 And what I might have to do is... 107 00:04:47,943 --> 00:04:50,169 if you've got it locked, like the last video... 108 00:04:50,458 --> 00:04:53,006 unlock it, select it, and just yank it up a little bit. 109 00:04:53,107 --> 00:04:54,732 And then see how it goes. Hit space bar. 110 00:04:58,615 --> 00:05:00,560 Not bad, I'm going to get it a little bit higher. 111 00:05:03,459 --> 00:05:05,959 It's bouncing in that right kind of sweet zone, you can see there. 112 00:05:05,984 --> 00:05:07,020 It's a little perfect. 113 00:05:08,380 --> 00:05:09,857 But that's going to be great for me. 114 00:05:10,099 --> 00:05:12,037 Next thing is, let's bring in the rest of the audio. 115 00:05:12,178 --> 00:05:15,014 We can go to 'File', 'Import', 'File'. 116 00:05:15,039 --> 00:05:16,467 It's a long way, there's a shortcut. 117 00:05:16,492 --> 00:05:18,934 'Command I' on a Mac, or 'Control I' on a PC. 118 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:19,967 We use that loads. 119 00:05:20,123 --> 00:05:21,377 To be honest, I never use it. 120 00:05:21,402 --> 00:05:24,404 I just double click in this big gray area here in my Project window. 121 00:05:24,429 --> 00:05:26,498 So just double click, that's the shortcut to it. 122 00:05:26,724 --> 00:05:28,014 I find it quite quick anyway. 123 00:05:28,310 --> 00:05:30,974 So these two files, go to your exercise files. 124 00:05:31,232 --> 00:05:37,885 And under 'Icon Pop', '01 Icon Pop', bring in 'Blip.mp3'. 125 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,592 And double click it again, let's bring in a second file. 126 00:05:40,617 --> 00:05:43,634 It's just under the root, 'Infographic Exercise Files'. 127 00:05:43,659 --> 00:05:45,162 It's called 'Background Music'. 128 00:05:45,365 --> 00:05:46,557 We're going to use these on... 129 00:05:46,582 --> 00:05:49,276 all the different exercises that we do. 130 00:05:49,803 --> 00:05:53,037 It's on its own folder, and all these files here... 131 00:05:53,428 --> 00:05:54,897 they're next to all free... 132 00:05:54,922 --> 00:05:58,052 because somebody like Wistia have given them out to us. 133 00:05:58,077 --> 00:06:00,256 So Wistia is W-I-S-T-I-A. 134 00:06:00,281 --> 00:06:02,701 Go check out them, they've got some free background music... 135 00:06:02,726 --> 00:06:04,014 that I saw they were there... 136 00:06:04,039 --> 00:06:06,170 and I appropriated it for some of my projects. 137 00:06:06,271 --> 00:06:09,685 The other ones in here, I found Shutterstock. 138 00:06:10,259 --> 00:06:11,985 It's a stock music site. 139 00:06:12,157 --> 00:06:13,368 And I've paid for them. 140 00:06:13,416 --> 00:06:15,845 Actually these ones are the preview versions... 141 00:06:15,870 --> 00:06:18,157 so what you'll notice is that, you'll play it for a little while... 142 00:06:18,407 --> 00:06:21,087 and it all plays happy music, but then, part of the way through... 143 00:06:21,119 --> 00:06:23,087 it says "Shutterstock music'. 144 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:27,297 Kind of ruins the mp3 for you, so that you go off, and pay for it. 145 00:06:27,602 --> 00:06:29,578 You're not allowed to use these commercially... 146 00:06:29,603 --> 00:06:30,837 any of the Shutterstock ones. 147 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,496 But you can kind of see here... 148 00:06:32,521 --> 00:06:34,728 this one here is the Wistia Learning Gallery. 149 00:06:34,821 --> 00:06:37,212 They allow you to use it for commercial purposes. 150 00:06:37,798 --> 00:06:40,235 I'm going to use Interlaken Crossroad. 151 00:06:40,260 --> 00:06:42,774 At this stage follow me, you can pick a different one, of course. 152 00:06:43,477 --> 00:06:45,460 But I've done this project obviously... 153 00:06:45,485 --> 00:06:47,618 and tried to find something appropriate. 154 00:06:48,178 --> 00:06:50,170 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add it to my Comp. 155 00:06:50,202 --> 00:06:52,029 You can do it a couple of ways, you can drag it down here. 156 00:06:52,054 --> 00:06:53,599 The only problem is, if you drag it down here... 157 00:06:53,624 --> 00:06:55,102 see that little Playhead there, the blue thing... 158 00:06:55,127 --> 00:06:55,942 if you drag it there... 159 00:06:55,967 --> 00:06:57,482 it kind of starts way out here. 160 00:06:57,686 --> 00:06:58,956 So it doesn't start till I get... 161 00:07:00,054 --> 00:07:01,946 So you've either got to drag it down here... 162 00:07:01,971 --> 00:07:03,155 just make sure it's at the beginning... 163 00:07:03,272 --> 00:07:04,831 or just drag it into the center bit here... 164 00:07:04,870 --> 00:07:06,945 and it just goes in right at the beginning. 165 00:07:07,475 --> 00:07:09,335 So couple of things I would like to do. 166 00:07:09,843 --> 00:07:14,069 I would like to create a folder in here, put in my audio in. 167 00:07:14,311 --> 00:07:16,244 Often, if I'm doing Infographic... 168 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:19,850 there will be a files folder, an audio folder, a video folder... 169 00:07:20,093 --> 00:07:21,979 and I leave the Comps just out of there... 170 00:07:22,010 --> 00:07:24,413 so I'm going to create this one here, this one's going to be audio. 171 00:07:25,546 --> 00:07:28,374 I'm going to stick you, you, and you in there. 172 00:07:28,733 --> 00:07:31,061 And we'll make 'Files'. 173 00:07:31,382 --> 00:07:34,877 Files is just like any static images, and any other weird stuff I get. 174 00:07:35,132 --> 00:07:37,155 And you notice when you create a new one... 175 00:07:37,264 --> 00:07:39,249 let's put it inside the file, so we can fix that. 176 00:07:39,413 --> 00:07:40,679 This one's going to be any video. 177 00:07:40,704 --> 00:07:42,424 This project's not going to actually hit somebody... 178 00:07:42,449 --> 00:07:44,601 but let's get something good going early on. 179 00:07:47,538 --> 00:07:48,944 So, that's my files. 180 00:07:49,061 --> 00:07:51,319 One of the other things is, if I hit Play now... 181 00:07:53,257 --> 00:07:56,381 you can see, they're all kind of battling it out. 182 00:07:56,406 --> 00:08:01,569 The voice over here, Value of Sleep, is at the same level as the music... 183 00:08:01,655 --> 00:08:03,608 but they kind of fight it out when I start talking... 184 00:08:03,641 --> 00:08:06,694 so I'm going to lower the volume of this music. 185 00:08:06,897 --> 00:08:08,377 So with it selected here, I'm going to do... 186 00:08:08,402 --> 00:08:11,155 the opposite of what I did with the voice over... 187 00:08:11,180 --> 00:08:12,704 and lower it down. How low? 188 00:08:16,451 --> 00:08:17,787 Just keep dropping it down. 189 00:08:21,904 --> 00:08:22,787 That feels good. 190 00:08:22,967 --> 00:08:25,592 So just keep lowering it down until you feel like... 191 00:08:27,811 --> 00:08:29,092 That works for me. 192 00:08:30,037 --> 00:08:33,240 So, low as you go, it's really just the balance with that... 193 00:08:33,623 --> 00:08:36,420 whatever has to be the highest, which is going to be our dialogue. 194 00:08:36,641 --> 00:08:38,102 So I'm going to lock these two here... 195 00:08:38,127 --> 00:08:39,382 so we don't mess around with them... 196 00:08:39,407 --> 00:08:41,618 and we're going to move on to the next video. 17365