All language subtitles for 14. Editing music and sound tracks Part 2

So there's a third area, and to access this area, you can just right click on the audio, actually

just before I move on.

When you detach audio from your video clip, you can't reattach it.

So at this point, I can if I want to just hold down control and press Z and I can reattach the audio,

but that's one important point to to take on board.

You can't reattach the audio to the video only by reversing your actions, so you can't attach it later

on.

It's just going to stay separate.

So actually, what I'll do is I will just right click on the clip and I will keep it detached for now.

So I will detach the audio and as a shortcut here as well.

So what I can do is I can right click on the audio and I can come to audio and we have audio adjust.

And another way to get audio adjust is just to double click on the audio track.

Now, if the audio is attached to the video or you'd have to do is double click on the video and you

would have, I think about three or four options up here and you'd have to just click on audio and then

all of these tools will open up.

Now, before I move on to these here, which are quite straightforward, I'm just going to cover these

three here and we have this this new one here, auto normalization.

And in fact, let me just start with this.

So normalization automatically sets the level of volume as far as I know to a specific level that for,

as I know Europe users, I mean that that's the only wording I know.

So basically, if you're unsure about the level of volume that you want to use, you can just click

on auto normalization and and fill more will just take care of the volume levels for you.

But at the end of the tutorial, I'm going to show you what I do with regard to choosing the right audio

levels, the right volume levels.

But basically, this is what it does.

Then we have ducking.

Now I thought to myself when I was creating this tutorial Jamai, how am I going to explain this as

best as possible?

Well, I've created some illustrations just to show you on the screen.

Now, basically, with this first illustration, you just have your video with an audio track.

And let's say this audio track is just maybe somebody speaking like myself.

And then you have the music track below, but sometimes with videos when the person's not speaking,

the audio track, which could be music, starts to go up in volume just to fill in that empty space.

While when you use ducking you, just check this box here and then you end up with a scenario like this

where in between where there's no sound here, the music rises and it fills in that empty space.

So that is pretty useful.

Now how to use this more?

Basically, you have to select the video with the audio.

Check this box and then adjust the level here, so that's how you take care of that.

Then there's the noise and this is pretty useful, but to be honest with you, it can affect the quality

of the sound.

If you have an air conditioning unit going on in the background and you hear this when you're editing

your video, then you may want to apply the noise just to get rid of that noise.

But to be honest with you, it's always a good idea when it comes to recording just to make sure that

the environment is nice and and sort of clean with regard to certain noises that are around you.

But sometimes that's easier said than done, and you end up with intrusive noises in your recordings,

and you may want to try an experiment experiment with the noise just to see if you can clean up the

sound a little bit.

So to select your clip, check.

Remove background noise and adjust the slider here to the strength that you want.

And then finally, we just have faded and fade out here, and if you just look at the timeline, we

have the fade in there and the fade out and we already know how to do that.

Then we have pitch.

And basically, this just increases the pitch, so makes it more high pitched or low pitched the sound

that is and have finally, and this is the last thing, the equalizer.

So when it comes to music tracks, usually what I would do is apply this setting here.

So let's see if this makes a difference within the recording, but I'm not sure if it is.

I'll press play at this point.

60 There is a much bass there, but if I come to this dropdown here and choose dance and then press

play,

you can see it's applied quite a bit more bass there, I would say.

Well, that's at least what I can hear now.

There's some other settings here you can go through and you can just find one you like.

But if you don't quite find what you're looking for and you're quite familiar with sound editing, you

can come to customize.

And you can adjust these different frequencies here.

So let's say I wanted to put up the bass quite high.

I can put up the low frequencies like this and bring down the high frequencies.

Now we're going to do too much here because I want to break the speakers on my computer.

Sorry, my TV.

So I'll just click OK and I'll press play.

And it should.

It should sound awful.

Actually, it sounds pretty good.

So it sounds like a live show.

But anyway, I don't like that setting too much, so I'll just leave it on dance.

And like I said, you can just go through these settings here and just find one that you like.

And then once you're happy, you can just click, OK, and that's it.

So just three things to note there, and that would be the three areas that you can adjust your sound.

First and foremost, you can adjust your sound in here.

You can adjust your sound here.

And you can adjust your sound by right clicking or double clicking on the soundtrack or the video.

If the sound is attached to it, come to audio, click on audio, adjust or adjust audio.

And here are your settings.

So those are the three main areas when it comes to editing sound within film horror.

And one last point if you are going to edit sound and you're relatively new to this whole thing, I

would recommend that you use headphones.

Not so much earphones, but headphones, because you're able to pick up on the finer noises and you

are able to just adjust certain levels and etc. just to clean up the sound.

Well, actually, before I go anywhere, I mentioned that I was going to had to tell you what type of

volume I usually go for, or to be honest with you, I actually freestyle with this a little bit.

Now, you may have noticed in this course that all of the sound levels within the tutorials are pretty

level to each other.

So there isn't another tutorial that's too loud.

And another one that's too soft.

Cetera, it's pretty linear throughout the course.

So what I usually do is I set my TV to 50 percent volume.

I set my computer volume up to 50 percent here.

And I should press escape, that's get rid of this.

I set the volume here to 50 percent.

And then from this point forward, I adjust things like.

The master volume, if I decide to use master or I might set the volume here to to a certain setting,

so let's say I want to keep it at 9.8 decibels the throughout the whole project, I just keep the same

settings.

So 50 per cent with all of the rest of the volume settings and then making sure that all of my clips

stay at 9.8 decibels and all I'm doing is I'm just listening to my TV and listening to see how loud

it sounds.

So I'm looking for a decent amount of volume with everything set to 50 percent.

And if it sounds good, then it is good.

And I've heard a famous musician say that once when it comes to creating music and sound, if it sounds

good, it is good.

So that's how I basically deal with volume when video editing.

So anyway, that's everything to do with sound, and I hope you enjoyed that tutorial.

I enjoy dealing with sound things, so I enjoyed it as well.

Anyway, I'll see you in the next tutorial.