AI-Powered Karaoke: Creating Free Backing Tracks with Free Software

1. INTRO: Hello. Using AI and three pieces of open source software that you don't pay for that you can get for free online, I'm going to show you how to make your own free sing along videos for karaoke. Now, why would you want to make your own sing along videos for karaoke? Well, karaoke is real popular. As you know, if you've clicked on this, you've probably done it. It's a great social activity. A lot of people do it. A lot of people love it. And singing is just a lot of fun. But probably you've come across the situation where there's a song that you want to sing. Maybe you have the MP three for it, maybe you have the video for it. Maybe it's a song that you wrote, and you recorded. We're going to be using a song that I recorded here as an example. That's what our exercise is going to be on. Maybe there's no karaoke singalong video that goes with that song, and you would like to make one for your own personal use. Let me remind you, it's important to have permission from the copyright owners because we don't want to do anything that's illegal or immoral. But like me, I've got, I don't know, 70 or 80 songs that are floating around, and I'm happy to give you permission for any of my songs. And I know other artists very much even some big name stars are happy to give you that permission if you just ask. So always ask. As I mentioned, we're going to use a piece of music that I wrote and recorded back in 1990. The name of my song that we'll be working with is called Practice Makes Perfect. As I mentioned, we'll be using three free softwares. That means that there's no charge. You can download them, install them, and use them for free. And the great thing is once you use these softwares to make your own singalong videos, you can put those videos on a little jump drive or a little thumb drive and carry those around with you. And when you go to your favorite karaoke venue, maybe it's a bar, maybe it's a party place, you can just bring that along with you or go to your friend's house and plug it in, and then you're off to the races as it were. So the three pieces of software that you're going to need to find and download are these. Number one, audacity. Audacity, get the latest versions of each of these from 3.0 with audacity onwards, they now have AI, which we're going to use to take the vocals out of a piece of music. So audacity is number one. Number two is my favorite video editing software, and I have used them all. I worked in Hollywood for many years, and I really like the free version of DaVinci Resolve. So you'll want to download that. That's what we'll be using as a video editor to make the video. And then you're going to need something that you can edit lyrics with a document program. And I like OpenOffice. That's also open source, and it's free. And you can find that and download that because we're going to need to edit some text. More, we're going to need to have some files that we can work with. Now, if it's an audio file or a video file, I'm just calling them files, or sometimes I'll call them elements, okay? You're going to need four files, four elements that I give you permission to use. These are mine. I own the copyright, and throughout this course, you are welcome to use these as your heart desires. The first file is called Practice Makes Perfect with vocals, MP three. Practice Makes Perfect without vocals, MP three, Practice makes perfect video with vocals MP four, and practice makes perfect lyrics. So those are the four files that we're going to need to work with. By the time you finish with this little exercise that we've done, you'll be able to edit video, edit some sound, and do other things other than just this. Other than just make karaoke tapes, you'll be able to you'll have a working knowledge of how to edit video and edit sound. So it sounds like a wonderful thing. You're going to really enjoy this. You're going to get a lot of utility and use out of it that will spill over into other areas of your creativity. 2. Class Project: Our final goal here is to end up with what's called a backing track, a karaoke track or karaoke backing track. That consists of two parts a video that has the lyrics that you're going to sing and audio that you're going to sing against. And ideally, there are no vocals in that audio, right? Because we want to hear you sing. We don't want to hear Elvis or Pink or anybody else sing or Linda Ronstadt. Although they're all fabulous, we want to hear you sing. That's what the whole purpose is of the track. Now, we can get there by starting with any combination of source material, we can pull the audio off of a video that you've got. Or if you just have the audio, we can start there, and we can fabricate the video later. But we have to end up with both of those things audio and video to make a backing track, and we can start with any combination of audio and video to get there. 3. Overview: Do a quick overview of the final process, okay? I've got a 32nd version of the song that we're going to cut. I want to show it to you from beginning to end what we do. Not all the minutia, the huge steps. And the reason I'm doing this is I just spent a couple of days with my dad showing him how to do this. And finally, I said, Dad, what are you not getting? He goes, I don't understand how we get from point A to point B. How does all the stuff that we're doing get us to the final step? So we're going to do that, alright? I'm going to show you the final steps. And then everything else we do is just the stuff that you have to do to make the software work. Step number one is we import the music with the vocals. Very important because we want to cut against the vocals. Now, that can be the video, or it can be an MP three. Let's bring that 32nd clip of that song in, put it on the timeline, and we're just going to watch it once, okay, so that you know what we got going. Well, I know you're out, Captain. You're out painting the town red. My friends they all tell me. And I wish I were dead. But I'll forgive and I'll forget when you say, darling, you're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect pool. Very short song, but destined destined to be a hit, as far as I can tell. Number two, is we're going to cut the titles. They're title cards that we put in, and we're going to cut them, meaning we're going to stretch them, we're going to make them smaller so that that title, which is the words across the screen, we call them titles. Those titles, some people call them captions, but more accurately, it's titles. Those titles will fit the sentence as that sentence goes by. I'm going to effet Titles, so I'm going to grab this text box. I'm going to drag it over, and I'm going to set it right there on top. And let's grab the first line. What's the first line in this song? Well, I know you're out cattin You're out painting the town red. That's the first line of the song. So I'm going so this text box is not long enough to cover that entire sentence. So I'm gonna grab it and I'm gonna pull it over. I'm gonna listen, make sure that sentence ends right there. The town red. Yeah. Alright. Alright, so I could either I could do this a couple of ways. If I wanted to, I could tap on that text box, and you see up here in the upper right hand corner the inspector has now come up. This is where you work. Okay, you never, ever, ever touch the viewing window. Never. We're only going to work over here in the text box. So I could type in, I know you out Catin You're out painting the town red. How'd that work? I got all the words in, but as you can see, the words now go off both edges of the page, so not really working for me. I can do a couple of things at this point. I can reach over here in the inspector and you see it says, size and color. I think I like the white. But it's too big. So I'm going to grab size, and I'm going to pull it down, pull it down. I know you're out cattin, you're painting the town red. Okay. The other thing is, I don't really like them on my face, but you know what? I think the face is going to get in the way because I really don't need. We're not going to keep the video, right? So let's lose the video. It's come back down here to my file called 30 seconds Song Clip. Click on it to select it. Then I'm going to right click. And you see the very bottom of this window that opened, it says Link Clips. I'm going to unlink those clips because that video and that audio are married together. We call that married. We're going to unmarry them, okay? So I'm going to click off of them. I'm click anywhere. Now when I click on it. Instead of both the audio and video lighting up red, they're lighting up separately. So I'm going to do is I'm going to right click on the video of me singing that, and I'm going to go up and I'm going to hit cut or I'm going to hit Control X, and then I'm going to save Jesus says, and so should you. I hit home R TZ. We'll talk about that a little bit later. I hit back to square one. Well, I know you're out, Catin You're out painting the town red. Friends. Okay, so there's more song, but that worked. D mine. I really don't like the fact that the letters are so small because I'm gonna be singing this in a karaoke club somewhere. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make these bigger. But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come up here in the inspector, I'm going to break this into half, right? I'm gonna do this. Now I'm going to grab that size thingy again, and I'm gonna drag it. I know you're out cattin, you're out painting the town red. Okay, that's cool. I like that. I'm also up here. I'm going to change the font, I'm gonna make it bold. I like that. Now, there's a safety area which around this frame, I don't want to get too far out of because different TVs will cut off a little bit on the end. So leave yourself a margin, okay? So I'm thinking 110 ish. So what I can do now is I can grab another text box, and I can grab that text box and drag it and put it at the end of the first text box. And let's play the second sentence. Painting the town red. My friends, they all tell me. And I wish I were dead. My friends all tell me, and I wish I were dead. Okay, so I'm gonna grab the edge of the textbox here and pull it up the playhead. The red line is the playhead. That means wherever that red line is, that's what we're looking at and we're hearing. I forget what the lyric was there. My friends all tell me I wish I were dead. You know what? I don't want to keep going up here into the if I click on it, the inspector comes up and about it. And I can type over basic title, right, as we did before. But, man, that's a lot of typing because it's a whole song. We only did a 30 minute clip of it, but there's a whole song here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop this open. I'm gonna go to my file. I'm gonna go up here to my class resources. And look at that. I got all the I got the lyrics right there, so I'm going to open that. With open office. I know you're out cattin down here. I know you're out cattin. You're out painting the town red. My friends call and tell me, and I wish I was dead. Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the next 30 seconds worth of music. I know is this. I'm going to copy it. I'm gonna come back here and I'm going to paste it in that window. Now, I'm just going to get all these laid out, and then I'm gonna come back through and finsce them, okay? My friends all tell me, and I wish I were dead. I know that's the next line. My friends, they all tell me. And I wish I were dead. Okay, I said my friends, they all tell me, so I'll I'll make that correction because better to do it now. My friends I'm guessing that's a comma. They all tell me, and I wish I were did. Okay, so now I'm gonna grab the rest of that, and I'm gonna cut it, right? Control X. And I've cut that. Now, I need another title box for another sentence. So I'm gonna put another one right there. And you know what? I'm gonna paste everything into it. Paste. But I'll forgive and I'll forget when you say, Dear, I'm your jewel. I know it is the next line, so I'm going to grab the rest of it. And I'm gonna cut that. I'm gonna grab another text box, and I'm gonna drag it over here. Now, I haven't checked the haven't checked the length. Length equals time, right? Because remember, we stretch these first two boxes out to make sure they fit. But now what I've done is I've gotten all the lyrics into the boxes for this whole song. Okay, for this whole 32nd clip. So let's go back to the beginning. I'm gonna hit home, and let's check it as we go. I know you're out, cat. You're out painting the town red. Cut. My friends they all tell me. And I wish I were it. Cut. But I'll forgive and Dill forget. When you say Darling. You're my jewel. Okay, I know that next that next box needs to come to the as far as the playhead goes, so I'm gonna move this text box away. I'm gonna drag this text over to it. I'm gonna drag the timeline a little bit and just check the ending. And Dial forget. When you say darling? You're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. End of song. Okay. So what I want to do is I'm gonna grab this, drag it to there. Now, I'm gonna go through and see if I like the way the titles look. I like that one. I know you're out cat and you're out painting the town red. You're out painting the town red. My friends. My friends, they all tell me it's kind of small, so I'm going to click on it. I'm gonna adjust it my friends. They all tell me I'm going to get it there in the middle. I'm gonna cut it. I'm gonna put an extra space in between because later I'm gonna put a little red, you know, they call the bouncing ball. I'm gonna put a ball in there, a marker so I know exactly where I'm singing if I get lost. So now I'm going to come over here. I'm gonna grab the size thing. I'm gonna make it bigger again, and I'm going to hit bold 'cause I like the bold. Look. Okay. Now I'm gonna go to the next line. I'm going to get again. B. And I'm gonna play that one. But I'll forgive, and I'll forget when you say darling. You're my jewel. Okay, so I'm checking two things. Number one, length, number two content. One length to content, right? Length and content. Length time and content, length and content. Length and time are synonymous in here. Okay, so I don't like the way that looks, neither do you, because the lyrics fall off the edge. So I'm going to go. But I'll forgive and I'll forget give it two spaces. When you say I needed a comma there. I put it. How's that? But I forgive and I'll forget when you say, you're my Jewel, I'm gonna make that a little bit bigger, and I'm going to hit bold. But I remember that wasn't right. I wrote these lyrics out, but then while I was singing Improv since I know the song, I don't know. I just for some mistake reason I made a mistake. And then the original since we're gonna be taking the we're gonna be taking the vocals out, I could either leave this as D. Good op. I can leave this as when you say dear, you're my jewel, or I can change it to Darling you're my jewel. So I'm gonna come over here. And you know what? I should have said Darling. So I'm gonna come over here and to the inspector. I'm gonna grab that window, drag it down, and I'm gonna make that correction. Darling. When you say Darling, you're my jewel. And I'm gonna hit save because I've done something, right? I've done something. I like it. Hit, save. Hit, save. Save, save, save. Because you don't want to get into a rhythm and get 25, 30 minutes down and made some really interesting video cuts and then have the whole thing crash. It happens, my friend. So let's go Let's check this line out. We're it. But I'll forgive and I'll forget when you say darling. You're my jewel. Yep. Cut. Practice, makes perfect. I must be perfect. Ooh. Okay, good. Good. Okay, let's fix this last title card. And I'm gonna do the same thing I've done on the others. I'm gonna space space. I'm gonna make it bigger, and I'm gonna make it bold. Okay, so now I've got that I'm gonna hit Save. So let's check this whole song from the beginning. Ready? Here we go. Well, I know you're out, Captain. You're out painting the town red. My friends they all tell me. And I wish Sha were dead. But I'll forgive and I'll forget. When you say Darling, you're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. End of song. Very good. Okay, so we've gone through the whole song, and we like it. Alright? We like the way that the title cards look number three. Once we have the titles matching the music, we're going to send the music out to get the vocals stripped out of it so that we just have the music to play against the titles. Number four, we import the new piece of music that we have that does not have the vocals. So let's say that we've done that. Number five, we match the soundtrack that does not have the vocals against the picture that we've cut that has that string of titles that has all the lyrics on it. We sink it up to make sure that it's correct, and then we export the final product. Well I know you're out cattinPatin the town red. My friends say I'll tell me I wish I was dead. I'll forgivin I'll forget when you say Darling, you're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. Here we go. Best 32nd song you're gonna hear all day. And there you go. That's all there is to it. And now, if you know the software, you now know the process. So if you don't know the software, that's what the rest of this class is, is me showing you how to get the software to do what you want it to do so that we can do the process that you've just seen. Alright, very good. Let's have at it. 4. Familiarize with Primary Source Video: Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect here. Well, I wrote you a note. A week ago or more. My phone ain't ringing. There's been no knock on my door. I have checked my mailbox each and every day. I guess you got nothing to say Like things you used to say I love you. Behold me tight. Let's kiss and cuddle dark each every night. Once again, I wonder how you could be cruel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. Practice makes perfect. I must be perfect fool. I make excuses each every time you treat me cruel. I wish that I could, but I'm died in the wood. Practice makes perfect. I must be perfect. Well, I know you're out Catin You're out painting the town. My friends they all tell me. And I wish I were dead. But I'll forgive and I'll forget. When you say darling, you're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect food it's simple economics. Don't buy the cow if the milk comes free. You're out with someone else, but you'll claim you wish it had been. My daddy said, Don't be so stupid. I know you went to school. Well, practice makes perfect. Dad, I must be the perfect fool. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. Practice is perfect. I must be perfect fool. I'll make excuses in every time you treat me cool. I wish that I could Brick but I'm died in the pool. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect bool. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. H 5. Keyboard Keystroke Shortcuts: I just got a phone call from my dad who's watching the course, and he said, You said save, but I don't know how to save. So he said, I saw you do it a couple of times by just hitting the keys on the board. So let me just go over a couple. Not a whole lot. I'm just going to go over a couple of keystrokes. Now, if you're on a Windows or Linux based system, it's going to be this control, and then whatever. If you're on Apple based system, I think the button is the Command button. I don't have an apple. So but that's usually that's usually the way that it goes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to you see here, I've got this document. Let's say I want to select everything in here. Well, I can click inside of the document, and then I can hit Control A, and that selects everything. Now, if I want to cut all of that, I would hit Control X. Now, say that was a mistake and I want to put all that back before I do something stupid, I would hit Control Z. Control Z is undo. Control Y is redo. Okay? I still don't like it. I'm gonna hit Control Z. Now, I can cut something. Let's see, I wrote you a note a week ago or more. If I were to cut it out, I could just hit Control X, right, and pull it out. I don't want to do that. I'm going to paste it back in by hitting Control Z for undo, or I can paste it back in by hitting Control V. I know that was a lot, but let me let me say this. Control Z is undo. Control X is CUT. Control C has in control Charlie. So I did Control C, to copy and control V as in Victor to paste it, okay? But I don't really need it there twice, so I'm going to control Z and undo, and I'm going to control Z again and see if it sucks that extra space out of there. Now, if I want to save, which is why we started this whole exercise, I'm going to hit Control S for save, okay? You know, I encourage you to do this. As you do things as you work just get used to where you can just hit Controls, even without even looking at it or, you know, just make that happen as you edit work work work type type type control, it work work work type, type, type control S. You know, you get the picture. I mean, it's a dumb one, but if you highlight something and hit Control B as in Bravo, it makes something either bold if it wasn't bold or unbolds it if it was bold. So you'll notice there the first lines I wrote you a note a week ago or more are now not bold. So I'm going to select them by dragging across them, or I could hit Control and hit Control B. And then that should have made everything old again. It just takes a little bit of jacking around. But Control S is the main one for save, Control Z for undo. You're going to need those a lot. Anything else? Control P if you're printing. I'm sure you can find a list of these somewhere that have A through Z, just so you know how to save. That was the whole purpose of that. Control S, save, save, save. 6. Setting Up DaVinci Resolve Editor: Alright, so we're going to start by setting up DaVinci Resolve. That's the program that we're going to be using the most, and it is by far and away the most complicated of the three. Have no fear. I'm gonna do my very best to show you everything that you're gonna need. And it's intuitive, too. So, you know, you may just figure it out on your own. So I'm going to open up DaVinci Resolve. The first time you open it, it's going to ask you your name and I think your phone number, perhaps, and your email. So go ahead and give them your information. They're a reputable company, and I have had zero difficulties with them. You're setup will look something like this. All right, so I'm going to walk you through setting it up so we can use it. What you're going to have is they may be smaller. Up at the top, you'll have two screens. However, it may look like this instead of what I've got right now, but you can grab this part here is the timeline we'll be working in. These are edit windows up on the top. This is often the one on the left is used for preview scenes and footage that you're going to put into your film project. The one on the right is the final product. So you view here on the left, you edit and check on the right and build on the right. But we don't need that. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to come up here to Workspace. You see up here along the top, we've got these tabs. I'm going to hit Workspace, which is second from the right. Click on that, and I'm going to go down to Single View Mode. I'm going to click that. Okay, now that gives me just one screen. If you look down at the bottom and you don't have tabs on the bottom, I would come back up here to Workspace and hit Show Page Navigation, and it gives you these little seven little tabs on the bottom, of which we only ever use two. And I'm going to click on this right here because I like, you know, there's no need to see all this extra timeline. So I'm gonna click on this little window right here up in the upper left hand corner, and that's going to move my timeline here. And it gives me. So if you'll look, I've got this, like I don't know, what is that a fifth? The left fifth of the screen or a quarter of the screen, that's going to keep I'm going to keep my media there, and I'm going to keep my effects in there. This is how I like it to look like this. And you'll get to where you figure out what it is that you like, as well. Alright. But for now, that's how I'm going to keep it. One more thing I'm going to do here is if you'll look, this is this bottom what is almost half. This bottom half, but it's only the right three fifths of the screen. This timeline area. You can see I can grab the playhead here and move that around. I don't I mean, it works, and that's nice enough, but I really like the setup here. I'm going to come over here if you see here's the time code right here. See the time code, which should I don't know if I move this all the way over, it'll say zeros or one and then zeros. This little icon just above it, I'm going to click on that, and I'm going to come down and I'm going to hit fixed playhead. And that moves that playhead now to the middle. Now, the playhead doesn't move, but the timeline moves. And we'll see what that means here in just a second. So pretty much is this is how yours ought to look. I would also go up here in the upper right hand corner and see the word inspector. I would tap on that inspector, as well. Okay, now, it says nothing to inspect, but we're going to change that in short order. So let's go on to the next lesson. 7. How to Import Files: So here we are. I have Da Vinci open. What I want to do is I want to import my element. We can import an MP three that has the vocals that you want to sing. Or we can import a video that has the vocals that you want to sing. It's amazingly difficult. I was going to say almost impossible. It's amazingly difficult to do this if you work from a track, an audio track that has no vocals to then put the vocals in the right place. You think you know the song? Maybe you do. But the timing and the nuance that happens, it's just it's so much easier to work with something that has the vocals. And I like working with the video of somebody singing. That way, I can also see their lips. I can anticipate when they're going to say something. I can tell when they make that cut because of their movements and their flexions and stuff. So it's just a whole lot easier. So I'm going to import a video that we're going to start cutting from. So I'm going to come up here to my master media pool. I'm going to right click and I'm going to go find that file, and it's right here in my class resources folder. And it is. Let me move this over because I want practice makes perfect. Video with vocals. That's what I'm going to import right now. So I'm going to click on it once, and I'm going to hit open, or I think you can double click it and it'll import. I'll give it a second. You see it, it's up here. It's coming in. Any second, it will be here. Doing ding, tune. There we go. Alright. H. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag this. And as I've told you before, I own the copyright on this. All this information here on the right is the copyright and the copyright disclaimer, and am I giving the students of this class permission to use this as you desire to your heart's content, okay? So, no problem there. So what I have now is the video with the vocals. And let's take a look at it. Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect so. Well, I wrote you a no. We could go more. Beautiful, Daniel. Wonderful performance. Riveting, isn't it? Okay, now, a couple of things here. You can see I think I've mentioned this before, but you can see my cursor down here, how it kind of jumps. It's an arrow. I go to bring it down and up, it's a split arrow pointing up and down, and then it's an arrow once I get past that white line. This white line or grayish line, a gray line on a gray background. Everything above that is a video track. Everything below that is an audio track. If I bring in more videos, I will put them in video and everything works from the center out. So Video one and Audio O are the closest to that center line. If I bring in a new video and place on top, say, I've got a B roll of girls dancing or something, and I want to cut that in, I can put that on the top. But this gives me you can see here down in Audio Track one, I'm going to make it a little bit bigger, too. I can stretch it because I got plenty of room here. I can, this looks pretty good. If you look these peaks here, none of them are really touching the edge. If they were, and I'm going to if you'll look here, I'm dragging this arrow, which is over here by the playhead. If I drag that down, at one point, it's there you go. It's going to split arrow up and down, right? Now it's got an arrowhead up, arrow down. I can grab it. That's a volume bar. I can say this is not loud enough. I can push that up. And you can see it increases the intensity. Well, now, that's a whole lot louder, but also it's now going off the edges of that audio track. So that means it's distorting. So what I want to do is I want to find that arrow again. I'm going to drag these back down. I don't want it to distort at all. So I'm going to pull that down, pull it down, pull it down. It looks about right. So that's as loud as it will go. So I'm optimizing the audio here. It's as loud as it can be. While still maintaining integrity and not distorting. Now I can start seeing I can start getting a feeling of where I'm singing, where the words are. And also watching my lips, I can see where the words are, right? And that's all going to help us later in the placement of the lyrics. Say I didn't have a video. I just had an audio track. Now what we have is we just have just the audio. So you could indeed just bring in the audio and work with it like this. Pigma mailbox. Aging. But I don't like that. So I'm going to Control Z, put that picture right back where it was. Control Z, hopefully to Marry back. Link them. Yeah, you can tell they're both linked 'cause I clicked the audio track, but they both lit up red if they were unlinked, and I click just one that one would light up. But I want them linked. I want them linked and in sync for now. So I have to select both of them. Then right click and say Link clips. So now I'm just going to check and make sure I'm still in sync. Every day. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, good. Onward, my friend. Onward. 8. Exporting Mp3 to Remove Vocals: So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit home on this keyboard. Hopefully, you have a home and an in, and then these four navigation buttons right there up down left, right, because we'll make use of those. So I'm going to hit home to take me back to my home spot or as we sometimes call RTZ which means return to zero. So I'm going to RTZ. And if I say that, if I say, Okay, so RTZ or return to home or return to zero, I just mean hit that home button and go back to the beginning. Of your project. Or if you hit the button end, it will take you all the way to the far end. If say, I'm going to grab my blade here, this razor blade, I'm going to make an edit right there and another edit and another edit. Okay? So now I've got one, two, three, four edits, and then the fifth edit at the end. If I want to navigate between them, what I can do is I can hit on these four buttons left right up down. If I hit down, it's going to take me to that next button or that next edit in my project, right? Or if I hit the up button, it's going to take me back to the left. That's a really useful way of getting around in this program. So I don't want those edits, so I'm going to undo undo, undo, which on my keyboard is Control Z or Control Z if you're not from the United States. Okay, oh, and another important thing. You see, I've got the razor blade up there. I can get there by on my keyboard, a shortcut, just hitting the letter B. If I want the arrow, that's the letter A. So A is the arrow. B is the blade. A is the arrow, B is the blade. Or I can run up here and I can select arrow or blade, arrow or blade. And those are actually the only two things we're going to be using. We may use this little horseshoe magnet at some point. That's snapping, and we might turn that off, turn it back on. What that means is, as we've got edits in here, if I'm trying to do something, And I'm trying to you can see how it kind of snaps to that and it kind of gets sticky and the timeline wants to stick on those edits. That's really useful when you're pulling things out and dropping them and trying to get things the same length. Again, I'm going to undo Undo, right? And I'm going to hit A for Arrow, and I'm going to hit RTZ or home to take me back to the beginning of the project. Oh, look, I missed I missed an edit, so I'm not undo. There it goes. All right. So now what we have, as you, I'm sure, remember, is a video I'm going to grab the timeline. And the timeline is this ruler up on top. Of course, yes, this is the timeline window, and technically, this whole thing is the timeline, but when I say grab the timeline and drag it, I mean, come up here to where you'll see that green the little arrow I've got. I'll turn into two little arrows left and right. And that way I drag this. Alright. Filter. Alright. And if I say scrub something, I mean, grab it. Okay, let's right here. See this right here. I don't know if that is, but I want to scrub up to that point. I'm not I'm gonna Okay, scrub right up to the first vocal. That's what that means, okay? I'm gonna scrub back and forth. Or if there's an edit there. Okay, grab that and scrub across that edit. Okay, again, I don't want that edit there, so I'm going to undo it. Okay, so and I'm going to pick up the arrow again, so I'm hitting A. We have here a video of a guy singing. We have the music track that we want, but it's got vocals in it, right? And the process is actually the same if I'm doing it off of a video, or if somebody has somehow I've gotten an MP three that I want to make into a karaoke file. I've got to take the vocals out. Well, so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to export just the vocals because I need to take it into audacity and strip out the vocal part. So I'm going to save now because I like, you know, I always say, Jesus saves, and so should you. As you do anything of value, hit, save. Hit, save, hit, save. Alright, so now what we're going to do is I don't need the picture, but I need to get this audio to audacity so I can strip that vocal out. So I'm gonna do is I'm going to go here to the rocket down here to the deliver, and I'm going to click on that. And give it a second. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna call this something. I'm gonna call element because I like to call everything I like to call my working parts elements. So if I see the word element, I know it's not the finished product, but it's something I'm using to make something else. So I'm just gonna call this element ELE MNT PMP for practice Makes perfect to be lifted 'cause I can't think of anything better to call it right now. Element PMP to be lifted. I'm gonna lift that vocal out. And I'm going to pick a place to put it. I'm going to put it back in. My practice makes perfect project. Now I'm going to go up here. See, this bar, I'm gonna drag this over. And click audio only. Well, it changed it to a wave. I don't want it as a wave. I want it as an MP three. So there we go back to MP three. All right. So that's my name, element PMP vocal lift. It's going to the file that I specified. I clicked on it Audio. It's an MP three, Codec MP three. Very good. Now I'm going to come down here and put add to render Q. That's going to put it up there in the right hand corner, upright hand corner. And I'm going to say, yes, render that project. 9. How to Remove Vocals with A.I. in Audacity: We are looking at my laptop. If you look in the upper right hand corner here behind the beautiful Redhead to whom I'm married or was married until she passed on, we have the three programs audacity, DaventiaRsolve, and Open Office, and those will all come into play. What we're going to do now is we're going to we have an MP three that is the music that we want to take the vocal out of, okay? So we're going to use audacity to do that. So I'm gonna double click audacity, and it's going to open, and we're going to import our MP three into this program. This is the gray area you see in the middle is the operating or the working area. You got the time code down at the bottom, and then you've got the transport buttons up here on top and then the tabs, of course. So that's what we're going to use first. I'm going to go to File because we want to import that MP three. And I'm going to come down to import audio. And it's going to let me search around, and I am going to go to my IPC. It's on my black Drive. Practice Makes Perfect Project, because the name of the song that I want to do is called Practice Makes Perfect. So here are the elements that you will get to work with if you download the package. And if you don't remember how to download the software or find the software or download these files, go back to the first file in this series, and on that first lesson, you will find that information. But I want Practice Makes perfect with vocals because we're going to take the vocals out. That's our plan. So let's do that. Just going to import it, and pretty soon you'll see this. What this is is left and right, the top bar is the left channel. The bottom bar is the right channel. And you can see they're different. The reason they're different is because when I recorded the song onto video, the software that I had would only put I don't know, it was probably me an operator error. I put the lead vocal only in the left channel. Now, in olden days, meaning before AI, that would have been impossible to take out because what happened before AI is you would have two channels, left and right, stereo. And in the stereoscopic landscape of things, your engineer might put the drums far left, and he might put the lead guitar far to the right, and then he might put the piano kind of midway to the left and put the bass guitar midway to the right, you know, some variation in that stereoscopic landscape between left and right. But right in the center, they always put the lead vocals right in the middle. So then to take the vocals out beforehand, what we would do before AI is take those two signals and flip one of them upside down and then make it a mono track. Instead of stereo, we'd now make it mono and flip one of the inputs and lay it on top of each other. And that way, whenever the waveform was doing this, now, if it was common to both left and right channels, you'd have one waveform going up and down and the other waveform going down and up, and they would cancel each other out perfectly. So the drums, which were far left weren't touched. The guitar far right wasn't touched. The bass that was a little bit to the left might lose a little bit of quality. The piano, a little bit to the right would lose a little bit of the quality. But right in the middle, the closer you got to the middle, the more of that sound would be taken out because any common sound between the two channels would be eliminated, right? Would be out, cancel itself. But with AI, and I don't have any idea how it does it. But now we can just take it out no matter what. It recognizes the difference between vocals and instruments and does that for us. So what we're going to do is we've got our song in here, and let's take a listen to it just for a minute or two, and you'll hear that there are vocals in it. And this entire video exists as one of the lessons without me doing an intro or anything to it, because if you need to capture it there, that's where you can go capture it. But here we go. This is the song. Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. Well, I wrote you a note. A week ago or more. And my phone ain't ringing. There's been no knock on my door. I don't mind saying so myself. That's some darn fine. Darn fines vocalizing. So let me just show you here. You see, I've got the button here, left and right so I can pan left and right. And usually the pan is right in the center. I'm going to play this and then pan left and right so that you can see what the left track sounds like or the left channel, and then what the right channel sounds like 100%, okay? Just just so that you have that experience. Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. Music intro, getting rid of the vocals. Here we come. Well, I wrote you no. I'm gonna pan to the left. We could go or more. That's coming out of the left speakers you can obviously tell. I'm gonna pan all the way to the right. My door. And I had checked my mail That's because none of that vocal was recorded into the right channel, okay? So we should in theory, well, definitely, using the old system not be able to take that vocal out, but with AI, we can. So I'm gonna put this back in the middle. Crab. Okay, stop it. It's gonna go back to zero because that's what our dad said he does. Now I'm gonna come up here to effet and all sorts of things here that you can do to your vocals, compressors, put a little bit of echo in it. I mean, this is a fabulous program. I'm amazed that it's for free. But I'm gonna come down to the bottom to the little bitty triangle, which means there's more things to see down at the bottom. I'm gonna click on that. It's gonna go down to vocal reduction and isolation. And I'm gonna click on that. It says, Well, did you get this little error window that says, You didn't select on anything. Okay? Well, I am. It says, Let's see. Select audio for vocal reduction in isolation for use. For example, if you want to do the whole thing, hit Control A to select A, then try again. So I'm going to say, Okay. So I'm going to hit Control A. And you see how that turned everything blue? That means I selected all of it. Alternatively, I could bring my cursor up here and I could drag it all the way across and select that if I wanted to. Or I could just select part of it. Okay? As your heart desires. Okay, so now we've done that. I'm we've selected the entire song. I'm going to go back up to effects, come back down to vocal reduction and isolation. And there are all sorts of things that you can do here. Remove vocals to Mono, remove vocals, isolate vocals, isolate vocals and invert, which I don't know any of that means. Isolate the center and analyze. All these things would be classes on their own. But I know that it makes sense that we would go up and hit remove vocals, but that's not how we do it with AI or at least with this program. Come down to isolate vocals and choose that. Now, you can tweak, if you want to with these little settings. But you know what? They seem to be normal in a really good place. I've done this before on several projects, and this has been the perfect setting each time, so I'm just going to leave it, right? So if you look up here and watch the wave forms of the left and right channels, you should be able to see them change. Now, you remember the vocal is in the left track, which is the top one here. And as it pulls out the vocals, it should look very similar to the right channel. So I'm going to hit apply and let's see what we get. It's gonna take a minute here. You get the little bar progresses along to show you how long it's taking or how much time is remaining 5 seconds, so we'll be done here in just a moment. Look at that. It looks to me like it took out all the vocals, but let's listen to it and see what we think. All right. The vocals are gone. I can hear micro artifacts in there only because I'm so familiar with my own voice, but I can hear little textures on the edge or little timbers of my own voice. But the vocals are gone. For all intents and purposes, that's just about the best recording, I think that one could hope for. Alright. So now what we're going to do is we're going to export this as an MP three. So if you look, we go back to file. Export Audio, and I'm going to call this element, if I could spell, element one, PMP for practice makes perfect. Here we go. Element one. I was going to say that. Right now, it's got it as a wave. I don't want it as a wave because DaVinci likes MP three is better than waves. So I'm going to come down here and I'm going to look for MP three, and it's right there at the top. Boom. Sample rate 48,000 is perfect. Stereo is perfect. Standard quality, 170 to 210 kilobits per second. I really anything that's 190 or above is just fine. And I'm going to export the entire project, okay? And it's going to go to, that's not where it's going to go to users conf documents, audacity. That's not where I want it to go. So I'm going to browse and find a new place to put it, and I'm going to put it in my practice makes perfect project, right there. Element 1:00 P.M. P P three, save and export. Alright, so now I'm gonna close audacity. And I'm not gonna save the project. I can just go 'cause I got the file, and if it's screwed up, I'll just come back and redo that again. So now I'm gonna go over and look, and there it is my element one, PMP. So I'm gonna listen to it and see what it sounds like. Sounds good to me. Let's go deeper into the song. Good. Go check the end of it. Yeah, I'm liking it. Hey, success. We successfully took the vocals out of an MP three using audacity. 10. Cutting the Title Cards: Karaoke, by the way, the words Kari and Oki are Japanese Kari means empty Oki means orchestra. So empty orchestra means it's an orchestra with no vocals. We decided that we wanted to use this song that's on this video, but it had vocals. So we sent the emp three of the vocals out to audacity, took the vocals out and brought the audio track back in that has no vocals. So we now have the video that has the vocals and the audio, and we have another track that has the music, but no vocals, right? And we've lined those up. Good. Now what we're going to do is start putting titles on it. You see, I've got this title box right there. We're doing two things. We're checking the length of the title so that the title starts and ends as the corresponding sentence we're singing is starting and ending, and we're also checking the content. Length content length content, length content. I'm going to click on the title box. And make sure that the inspector is open. If you have this and you don't have anything, you can't see anything over here, be sure and go up and click your inspector. Okay? That now gives you something to work with. We work here in this upper right quadrant. We never touch this screen. We never touch the viewing screen. We only make changes here. So what I'm going to do is it says titles here. I'm going to grab this bar on the side, and you'll see if you come down here, it says position and Zoom. Okay? We're going to get back to that in just a second. But I'm going to go all the way to the bottom and I've got this it says background. This is the background behind the title. So I'm going to click I'm going to grab the opacity slider, slide it over 100%. This makes sense here in just a second. Then I'm going to come up to height. I'm going to grab the height, and you can either type a number in here or you can drag this right or left. I'm going to drag it. Well, look at that. Drag it right. And then I'm going to make it just a little bit wider. Now I'm going to go back up to the top. Where it says position, I've got position X and position Y. X is left and right. So if I wiggle this left and right, it does that. And if I wiggle it up and down, it'll go up and down. So I'm gonna take this just right now because I want to be able to see this guy's lips. So I'm going to take this, and I'm going to put this right over the top of where it says musical intro. I'm going to make the background color blue. I selected blue. Now I got to click Okay. I can make it a little bit wider. I can make it thinner. I can make it bigger, whatever I want to do. I can add a color around it. Let's say, I like this I like this bright red. I say, Okay. So this is the outline color outline width right now at zero. I'm going to make it Well, I like that. Five. It's just a touch. Six. And we're going to look at the text of this song, okay? Go to here, go to class resources. And I'm going to open Practice Makes Perfect ODT. And I'm going to look down this song, and I'm going to find the longest sentence. I know this song intimately since I wrote it. So I know that this song does a line and then does a beat or two. Some songs, they don't. Some songs will do two lines. And then do a beat maybe or take a breath. You're just playing it by ear, my friend. But I know that each line here is going to be a title card in the end, and you'll just get to where you just know. You'll get a feeling about it. What's the longest one right here? You're out with someone else, but you'll claim it had been me. So I'm going to grab that line. It's the longest line in the song. I'm gonna copy it, and I'm going to go back to this program where it says Titles here. I'm going to scroll up, make sure it says title and where it says titles here, I'm going to highlight that, and I'm going to paste that long sentence that I just put over it. You're out with someone else, but you'll claim you wish it had been me. Well, first off, we're doing two things. We're checking the length of the title so that the title starts and ends as the corresponding sentence we're singing is starting and ending, and we're also checking the content. Length content, length, content, length content. We know that the audio is right. Not editing any audio. So the audio becomes our primary element. So we listen and we watch the screen. And the moment, the microsecond that something on the screen is not what we're hearing, it's wrong. And I'm going to bring that to your attention right now. First thing we need to do is it's wrong because you're out with someone else, but you'll claim you wish it had been me doesn't show up a bunch of the lyrics fell off both sides of the screen. So I'm going to come down here to size. You see it. I'm in the inspector. I'm going to come down to size, and I'm going to grab this number, and I'm going to pull it, pull it slowly down. You're out with someone else, but you'll claim you wish it had been me. That fits now. So 55, I know, is the size of every text. Every text that I put in these boxes now, if it's 55 or smaller, will fit. That's one important tip. Here comes the next very important tip. I'm going to click inside this box, and I'm going to hit Enter, and I'm going to write I'm going to use the plus sign. Wrong lyrics. And I'm going to make sure it's the exact same width as you're out with someone else, but you claim you wish it had been me. To avoid any confusion, I'm going to erase. You're out with someone else, but you claim you wish it had been me. So this is the primary title card now. It says wrong lyrics. So whenever I see this, I know absolutely it's wrong. It's wrong because there's nowhere in my song that we're going to be doing. Do I go, plus plus, plus, plus, plus, wrong lyrics, plus plus, plus, plus, plus. You can write anything you want here, just as long as it's the exact same length as your longest lyrics, and there's no doubt that it's wrong. Okay, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to shrink this a little bit. I'm gonna grab the edge of that title card, and I'm going to stretch it. I'm gonna stretch it, and I'm gonna pull it and pull it and pull it all the way to the end of the song. There it goes. Alright. So now, no matter where I am in this song, you see that? The lyrics, the lyric bubble at the top is wrong. I know that cause I've made no entries anywhere in here. We have one title card, and that one title card is wrong. Okay. So now we can start working. I'm gonna hit, you know, I'm gonna hit Save. Now, just so I can see what's happening here. I'm now going to grab my razor blade. I'm gonna hit home. Got my razor blade, right? I'm going to hit Play, and I'm going to listen to this song go by. And I'm going to put my razor blade really make sure that snapping is on. 'cause if snapping is off, wherever you hit that razor blade is where it's going to make a cut, even if you're right next to it. But if I'm close like this and I have snapping on, I can hit here I can tell it to make a cut here, and it's still going to make a cut right there. So make sure snapping is on. Make sure you have your razor blade, and you're gonna cut as close to that playhead as you can. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to play the entire song. And as that title card goes by, it's gonna sing. And as I get to the end of a phrase, I'm gonna tap it. It's gonna cut that title card into pieces that are really close to the exact length I need for that sentence in that song, right? I wrote you a note a week ago or more. Cut. And my phone ain't ringing, and there's been no knock on my door. Cut. And I have checked my mailbox each and every day. Cut. You've got nothing to say. Cut. So by the time I get to the end of the song, I'm not going to have one long title card. I'm going to have, I don't know, 25 or 30 smaller cards that I'm now going to fill with the proper lyrics. I could try doing it here, but, man, it wouldn't take much to get off. So zoom in quite a bit so that you can see the wave form about like that. Chance and you got your razor blade hit RTZ, return to zero. And let's start chopping up this title card, shall we? Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. Alright, let's put that title card right there in that razor blade. You got to cut it on this text box. Well, I wrote you a note. A week ago or more. Cut, my phone ain't ringing. There's been no knock. On my door. Cut. I have checked my mailbox each and every day. Cut. I guess you got no then to say Cut things you used. I love you. Baby hold me tight. Cut, let's kiss it. Alright, no needing you sitting No need you watching me do the whole song, okay? But you get the picture. So I'm gonna go through and do this, and you do the same, and then we'll meet up when it's done, alright? Practice makes perfect. I must be perfect. Boom. Alright. So what we've managed to do now is go through the entire song. I'll stop right here. Yeah. We've gone through the whole song, and we've cut that title track. You remember how it was just one title card. And now it's a bunch of title cards. One thing I failed to mention is this. There's a musical break in here. Before it starts the next lyric, you want to click it and make a cut there. Do Cut. It's simple. What that does is that ends up like, Well, this is what it does. I'll show you. I'll just show you right now. So again, wrong lyrics. But right here, I'm going to come up here where it says wrong lyrics, and I'm going to type in musical break. Save. Alright, so now what I have is wrong lyrics before it. Musical break. And the wrong lyrics. Okay. So now what we're gonna do, and we're gonna start putting in the lyrics. Now, I've seen people who type so fast, they'll listen to it. My wife could do that. She would and she'd just type it in. And done. I don't do that. What I do is this. I'm going to go back to Class Resources, and I'm going to open up Practice Max perfect ODT, the lyric sheet. And there it is. We were there earlier when we checked out. We took that longest line. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take the entire song, and I'm going to copy it. And I'm going to you've got to This is a thing that my dad had a hard time with, Dad. The computer doesn't know where you're looking. You have to tell it exactly what to do. Computers are basically stupid. If it's doing something wrong, it's because you told it to do something wrong. So here we are. This is the first title card. I have to select it. Oh, look at that. It says wrong lyrics. Well, I know the first lyrics of the song is the first line of this song. So I'm going to since I've got all the lyrics pasted or on my clipboard, I'm going to highlight wrong lyrics and I'm going to paste. Now, you'll see that all the lyrics are in here. I'm going to I wrote you a note a week ago or more. I'm going to grab everything past that first line. Highlight it. Right click. Cut. I wrote you a note a week ago or more. Let's check it. Gonna hit RTZ again. Look. Okay, well, that's a common mistake. I hit RTZ I'm up in here. You'll see that you'll see that the cursor jumped from the back of the line to the front of the line. That's not what I want. I want this to go. I I don't want the inspector to go to RTZ. I don't want the inspector to go to home. I want the timeline to go back to home. So I have to click on home. Remember, a computer only does what you tell it to do. So I clicked on the timeline. I now hit RTZ. It goes back to home, and I'm gonna watch my lyrics. Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. Well, I wrote you a note. So we could go more. Uh, I ain't ring. Nice, but now the lyrics are wrong. How do I know the lyrics are wrong? 'Cause I wrote myself a note. You don't have to do this, but this made it so much easier for my dad once he started. Now, we know that the box here that's we know the first title box is correct, right? So if you right click on it and go down to Clip Color you can then go pick a color. He liked orange. So now that first text box is correct. Control Sk because we saved. So now we know the titles are correct up to that point. That's what my dad had to do. And then he got lost on, What are we doing next? So he would paint the next box blue. Well, he knows now he's working in that box, which you and I know is the second line of the song. So again, I'm going to highlight the wrong lyrics and I'm going to paste because I cut all of the lyrics, except for the first line now. I'm going to paste that in. Now I'm going to go to the top. I am going to take this extra space out. My phone ain't ringing. There's been no knock upon my door. That's the second line. I'm going to grab everything past that. Right, click, cut. Save. And I'm gonna check it. No. We could go more. My phone ain't ringing. There's been no knock. Phone motor. I have. And those lyrics are wrong for the third one. Well, I know this is right now, so I'm gonna right, click on that, go to clip Color, change it to orange. And now this is the one I'm working in so I'm gonna change the one I'm working in, Clip Color to blue. Highlight it. Take out the extra space. And I have checked my mailbox each and every day. So the next line. Gonna grab it. Take everything else past that, cut it. Check it? Been no knock on my door. I have checked my mailbox each and every day. I guess. Okay. Click that one orange because it's now done. Now, you don't have to change the colors. I personally, when I'm doing it, I don't change the colors because I know where I'm working, right? Because I'll scrub it. Remember, I was talking about scrubbing earlier. Scrubbing, I could never get that concept over to my dad. But I know and I've checked the mailbox each and every day since I know the song, and you will know the song, too, because if you're doing a karaoke backing track for it, it's probably a song you really like, maybe, I don't know, knocking on Heaven's door or Bohemian rhapsody or whatever. You know what the next line is going to be. So I'm gonna bring it back here. I should point out that the playhead is where you're looking, and the highlighted box is the box you're working in. It's possible to be in a situation like this. Somehow you've highlighted this box three to the right, and you're looking right here, so you think you're in the right place, and you do this, and you wonder what in the heck went wrong? Make sure you're always highlighted where you're looking. So I'm going to do this all the way to the end. 11. How to Make a Custom Countdown Clock: Let's move on and see if we want to make any other changes. I think I'm gonna make some changes. I must be the perfect fool. Musical intro. Done, done. Well, I rule. Okay, well, you know what I would like, is I like a little bit of a countdown. So I'm gonna grab another title card, and I'm going to make myself a countdown clock. So I'm going to This is the title card right here where it says Musical Intro. And then I just put this other card on that says basic title up here. Of course, it's right on top of that. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to move it up a little bit. And then I'm going to drag that card out so it's exact same length as the musical intro. I'm going to type in a number. I'm gonna hit I mean a colon I'm gonna type in 42 because it's the answer to everything in the universe, right? You know that if you've seen Hichaga'sGuide to the Galaxy. So this now you're looking at two title cards. One says 42. One says musical intro. I'm going to actually You know what? I think I'm going to do something with the color on this. I'm gonna make it bigger. I'm gonna move it. I'm gonna move it up. I might put a stroke on it, okay? So I'm gonna pick a color for the stroke. I'm gonna go red. Okay. I'm gonna put it says outside only. Yeah, I'll do that. Five pixels red. Let's see what happens. There we go. Five pixels is not enough. I'm gonna go what's that 14? I'm gonna go 12 pixels. I like the looks of that. So now. We rule. Okay, very good. We're making a counter here, a countdown clock. I'm going to get my razor blade, and I'm going to come back to the beginning of the song. I'm gonna RTZ. I'm gonna get ready, and I'm going to chop up this clock on the beat. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my razor blade, put right here next to the playhead. And as the beat hits as I go down that title card that says 42, I'm going to click on it. Click. Click. I'm gonna follow that beat. The beats going and I'm going to go click, click, click, click. Doesn't have to be precise. Ballpark is fine. Okay? Here we go. Now you can stop and start your timeline with your space bar. So I'm going to get my razor blade in the right place on this channel, right? It's Video two, and I'm going to wait till I get to the 42 title card. I'm going to start clicking with the beat. Well, if practice makes perfect. Be I must be beat Beat. Beat. Feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet. Well, I rule. Yeah, I screwed that up. So I'm gonna go see how this one is, I can see that one's a whole lot bigger. So I'm gonna undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo 'cause I know I screwed that up. I'm gonna hit RTZ again. Might take me a little bit of practice, but I'm gonna get that rhythm down. Hit my space bar again. Well, if practice makes perfect, beat I must beat eat. Beat. Beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat. Well, I rode Those look pretty good. I'm gonna pick out the average one. I think this one's This one's the average one, wouldn't you say? This one? Okay, so I'm gonna grab that one. I'm gonna copy I'm gonna I'm gonna come right here and I'm going to type. I've got the arrow, and I'm going to type paste, paste, paste, paste, paste, paste, paste, paste, paste. Paste. Well, they're not going to work out just fine unless you have perfic rhythm. I'm going to highlight them all, and I'm going to drag them to where they line up like that. Alright, now, go to go to the first one right here. It says 42. Remember, the playhead shows you what it says. So I got to move the playhead over the one I've selected, and I'm going to type in 01. I'm going to move to the next one type in 0203, and I'm going to go down the line. 0405. Now, I don't have to look at it every time. If I'm confident enough, I can just type in this box and then go up into the inspector 06. 070809. And this last one will be ten. Okay. And I'm gonna hit Save. Now I'm gonna come back and check it. I must be the perfect fool. Ten, nine, eight, seven Well, I. Very good. That gave me an indication of when to start singing. I made that timer. Now, I could get in there and I could adjust that so that it hits every time on the beat. You can do that, if you wish. Ooh. This is adequate. Oh. And I'm just showing you the technique, and you can massage it or finsce it as you like, alright? 12. How to Add the Bouncing Ball: I know you're out captain. You're out painting the town red. They all tell me. And I wish I were dead. But I'll forgive and I'll forget when you say darling. You're my jewel. Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. So we're gonna add what's affectionately called the bouncing ball. Gonna add the bouncing ball. But it's not really gonna be a bouncing ball. It's just going to be the amount of animation and movement that you have to put in to make it bounce, which is just the rhythm. Boom, boom, boom is really difficult. So we're not doing it. I'm just going to show you how to put the ball the bouncing ball on this one frame, and then you can do the rest of the song. I'm going to do the rest. I actually considered doing this line. I make excuses each and every time you treat me cruel, just so that I can tell you I know the grammar is incorrect. It should be I make excuses each and every time you treat me cruelly, but that didn't rhyme in the song. So I had, you know, I got to rhyme with fool. So cruel is what it is. But anyway, I've painted this text box blue, and we're going to work in that text box. And the phrase is Practice Makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. One reason is, is because this phrase happens, I don't know. Is it seven times, nine times in this song? I haven't counted. But as you saw with the countdown clock, I did it in one place, and then I was able to copy and paste it. In the other place, I needed a countdown clock. Practice makes perfect. I must be a perfect fool if it shows up nine times and I can paste it in nine different places. Thumbs up, huh? So the first thing we're gonna want to do is this. This is not a whole lot of real estate to work with. So we're going to go up here to the Zoom button, and I'm going to make this to where it pretty much is the width of the screen. Titles. I'm gonna get another title box. Come over to the toolbox, go down to Titles. Grab text. And I'm going to put it there, and I'm going to stretch this line across here. And I do suggest paint it the same color that you're working with just for giggles. So that way, when you move to the next one perfect. You can paint this one red or whatever other color. And then that way you don't end up erasing part of the one before. Alright. Now, it says basic title. You see that? That's because we put up another text box. We're going to take that out in just a second. But let's count we have to make the decision. Do we want to put the bouncing ball on each syllable or just once on a word? If we do it once on a word, practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. That's nine frames. Or do we do it on each syllable? Practice makes perfect. I must be the perfect fool. That's 12. I've decided I'm going to do nine boxes. But first, I need to make my little bouncing ball. So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come up here and just so that you don't lose sight of what's going on, I'm going to put a zero. We're going to do a yellow zero. We're going to give it a little bit of a red stroke. So that's going to be our bouncing ball. I'm gonna grab it and change the position of it so that just like the other thing, remember when I said, Oh, it says, wrong wrong lyrics. Whenever this O or the bouncing ball is in this position, I know it's in the wrong position. We're gonna take this one file, this one. So we're gonna take this one text box, cut it into nine pieces. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And I'm going to listen to the first word. Practice. Practice goes to about looking at the waveform down here goes to about there. Am I right? So gonna grab this and move it over just in case, and on it, select it. I'm going to move that zero going over here to the inspector. I'm going to move it to the left, and then on the Y axis, I'm going to move it up. I want to check the first word. Practice, mix. Practice. Practice. Practice. Yeah, that's about right. Maybe maybe I went a little long, so I'm gonna move that over. Practice. Practice, mix. Makes goes to here, right? So I'm gonna click on the second word. And I'm gonna put that dot over the word M. So I'm gonna grab the Y axis and move it up. Practice, M. No watch from the beginning. Practice mis perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect ends right there, so I'm gonna grab the third box and scratch it over. Then select it, move it under the playhead. And then I'm going to move. The X axis, I'm gonna move it over to the right and then move it up. Practice makes perfect. Let's check our work. Practice, makes perfect Damas. Amos, Amos Damas. Okay, as I'm looking at the waveform down here, I can see that must be I mush. So this big bulb right here. That big bulb that I'm on right now at the playhead is probably I. So I move this over to here. Ah. Select it. Move the bouncing ball above the eye. So I want to exit far to the left, and then up over the eye. And this is must. So I'm just gonna move it to there, cause I know the next word is must, and then I'll make an adjustment, but I want to see if it moves at the right time. I must. Let's look at it. Practice mis. Perfect. I must be. Perfect. That's very nice. M. But you know what I'm deciding as I'm doing this? Practice? I don't like that. I don't like the I don't like the bouncing ball being in one place. I think I want to do syllables. Practice. So I'm gonna break that in half. I'm gonna get my razor blade again, and I'm going to cut that word in half where it goes Prat Tiss. So rat. Prat. And I can see down here on the bottom, I can see my wave form Prat, Tiss, prat Tiss. So I'm going to click that, cut it, come back here, select Prat, and I'm going to move that zero. I'm going to move the balancing ball over for prat and then I'm gonna go to Tiss select it and move it on the x axis over Practice. Okay, now let's see how that looks. Practice, mix perfect. Got to do the same thing for perfect. For cancer. Practice, mix, per Perfect. If I look down here in the waveform, I get a clue. Perfect. So I'm gonna cut it right there. Go to the per first half of the word. Move the zero over a little bit, per, go to the next line. The next space, the next card that I just created by cutting that in half, and I'm going to move that bouncing ball over the fet, part of the word of practice perfect. Practice, megs, perfect. Do we. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. Moving along. Okay, now I'm gonna be looking for the word B. Practice, megs. Perfect. Domp. Okay, if I look right there, I can see Imus B. I'm looking at the waveform down here on audio one. Down. This is why we keep the audio with the vocals. Can you see now how almost impossible, if not, I certainly impractical if not impossible to do this without this waveform that has the vocals in it. But if we look at that waveform, I can see where I hit the Watch it. Watch it. Watch and you can see it. I must be. Ever. Watch the waveform. B I must be. You can see I hit the word B right on that waveform right there. So I'm gonna take my razor blade. So I'm gonna cut that waveform right there over the B. And I'm pretty sure that that whole thing is B. Let me look at it. B. Yeah, B up to that point, so I'm gonna grab this card and drag it over. But I'm sure that's B, just because in the song, I must be So I'm looking at that B Move the playhead over it, select it, and move it over. Move the X axis to B. The next one I know is uh uh, So, uh a little bit on the X, a lot on the Y axis. And let's check what we got. From the top. From the top, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. Practice mix. Perfect. Thomas be Perfect. It feels so good when it works. Perfect. Okay, so let's be the perfect. We're looking for that P for perfect 'cause that's where we're gonna cut this card up. So I'm grab my razor blade. Perfect. Per I think as I look at this waveform, B, that must be. Looking at the waveform. Per perfect Po Don't look like don't you think that's kind of where that's gonna happen? Let's look at it. The you see, I'm scrubbing it. Scrubbing it? I can hear it. Did you hear it? Did you hear it? That comes from years of being a sound effects or editor in Hollywood. So I'm gonna go, Where's the next one? Per Let's scrub it and see if we can hear effect. Per the perfect fool's Right there. Right there. Perfect. And then we know the next gonna be fool. Scrubbed it? Did you hear that? Fool. And I can see that the word fool drags out. And I know the song, too, right? So let's go back and check our work. Um let's see what we need to do next. Practice mice. Perfect. Domo speed. Perfect. Okay. That didn't seem exactly right. Domo speed. Perfect. That's 'cause I didn't change perfect. Per. So, got my arrow. You don't want the razor blade when you're doing this because now you're gonna tap on it, and you're gonna make another cut. So then you have to undo, which is Control Z. I'm I'm I'm gonna turn snapping off I'm trying to move it gently, and snapping won't let me move the timeline unless I jerk it. So I turned and when you're finssing, sometimes you have to turn the snapping off. Otherwise, the timeline wants to snap to the next cut. So, perfect. This is per the per. So I'm gonna come down here and I'm going to grab the X, move it to per. And per I know the next box is perfect. I'm gonna move that over. Perfect. And I know this long box here is full. Right? You were with me when we did that. You remember how that works? Now, I'm not sure what happened. I think full is the last word in that card. So I cut these extra title cards, right, because we cut nine, but I ended up cutting up one of these cards up here into three pieces. So that means these three are probably useless. So I'm just going to go ahead and select them. Do not ever use the delete button when you're in the timeline. So I'm gonna right click and hit Cut. I'm gonna drag this fool all the way to the end. Alright. Now, I'm gonna navigate by hitting my up button on my four way navigation buttons, and we're gonna I wish that I could break away, but I'm just in the wood. M. Perfect. I must be perfect. Well, I knew it. Dang. That worked, didn't it? That worked just fine. Do the whole song. Alright? And that gives you a finished product. Kind of. I'm gonna go through and do this. And then what we're going to do is we're going to we'll take out the audio that's got the vocal and check it against the audio that has no vocals, and then we'll make the final product, okay? That'll be the next lesson. 13. Swapping Vocal and NO Vocal track: Now what we've done is hopefully you've gone through and you've tested, you know, you've done the final inspection. It's very, very important when you're doing video. I know it seems like an extra step that takes a long time. But let's say, I just watched something the other day. I can't even I can't even remember what it was. But you could tell that they were in a hurry to get it out. It was a movie. And there was like 3 seconds where people were talking and they had, like, horses in the background and people were slamming doors and you could see a wagon rolling by there was not. There was no wind. There were no horse hoofs on the ground. There were no wagon wheel squeaks. There were no doors slamming, nothing. It's just 3 seconds of not a sound effect at all. Just I think there was one little bit of dialogue where somebody was saying, Can you hand me that bag of beans? Nothing else in back of it. So somebody didn't do a final check. They had made a change for a new cut, for a new scene, ddt it in, and it just got past them. You don't want you don't want stuff like that getting past you. Okay. So now, what we've done is, well, as let's check here, and you can see that this is indeed the version. I'm gonna move this up. Move this back. Yeah. Frenzy. All. Alright, I don't want any vocals because we've already checked it. Everything's fine. I've got your final approval. We've looked through it. So now what we need to do is we're going to export the final version. We're going to lose the vocals. Now, you remember way early on, we synced them up. We had the audio with vocals and the audio without vocals. They're both here, but we have the audio without vocals muted. So I'm going to do now is I'm going to unmute the without vocals version, and I'm going to mute the version with vocals. Let's look at it. And if you remember this is spoken, right? You're up going, Well, if practice makes perfect, I must be the perfect fool. Nothing there. Let's keep going. Let's keep testing. And this is where the singing comes in on 21. Okay, ideally, what we would do is, and we're going to do that next, we're going to do the same thing we just did with the version before. Before we were checking for sink, we liked it. Now we're going to check it again. I'm going to export this version. I'll show you how right now, we're going to export this version, and then we'll check it. Alright? So I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna come down here to deliver Actually, I'm sorry. So what we're gonna do is we're going to check it one more time without the vocals Inspect, inspect, inspect, check, check, check because you don't want was egg all over your face? Can you imagine going to the karaoke bar with this or the club and having your thumb drive plugging it in and then you're going along, and then suddenly there's like three words. Practice makes. I know that was two words, but you know what I mean? And it would startle you and shock everybody else, and it would show that you hadn't done your inspection. So what we're gonna do is go through and inspect this now without the vocals. 14. Export and Render: Alright, I know that that seems tedious. What we just did is we checked it with the vocals, we checked it without the vocals, and nothing changed. It's now correct, am I right? I watched it. I think it's fine. We're done. Absolutely done. We finished our project or project. We're now going to export it so that we can take it and put it on our thumb drive. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to export the final product. You'll name it whatever you want. Practice makes perfect backing track, probably. That's probably not a bad thing to call it. Let's do that. I'm gonna call it 12 practice makes perfect backing track. And now I'm going to export it. So I'm going to check. I've got my name right here, 12. Practice makes per. Perfect. Practice makes perfect backing track. I know where it's going. It's going to. My D drive practice makes perfect project, yes. I'm gonna come down and make sure that it's MP four, cause I like MP four. Codec h.264 is fine. The resolution is 1920 by 1080. Frame rate 24, those are the things I always look for. I like it. So I'm going to come over here and click Add to Render Q. It's going to put it over here, and now I'm going to hit Render one, and it will make that video for me. And I will sometimes sit here and watch it render because even though it's going by really quickly, it's a different way to view it. And every once in a while I'll see it and I'll go ding and my brain will catch something. I saw a mistake, even at this extra fast speed. It's always good to check and double check and recheck. So after we've done this, what I'm going to do in the next lesson is I'm going to post the final version. So enjoyed it. Should take just another second here, and we'll be done rendering. Rendering means taking all the parts and smashing it together. 15. Final Backing Track Example: Ah. 16. Final Thoughts: You've done it. Congratulations. I want to congratulate you on finishing this. It's quite a project. It's quite a feat. You've certainly got a reason to pat yourself on the back. This was quite a bit of information. And what you've done in the process of learning how to do this, manipulate video files and audio files is you can now edit video. You can now edit commercials. You can now edit home movies. You can now edit, I don't know, short creative films or music videos, whatever you want to do. I've given you the tools to do that. So you're now a lot more fluid and fluent in DaVinci Resolve than maybe you had realized. So you've learned a couple of skills. Although we're going to use it mainly for karaoke, which is certainly a worthy endeavor. I enjoyed my time with you. I really hope all goes well for you. Enjoy this, share it with your friends who are karaoke lovers and share your new skills with them and teach them how to do it, or better yet, bring them here and have them watch this course. Alright? God bless.