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1. 01 INTRO: Hello, I'm Vinny van.
Why can I have been a filmmaker for a
little over 11 years? And when I started my
production company, I decided that one thing
is that I was going to focus on the audio quality. Something that I saw
that would set us apart from other companies around
in that area at that time. Specifically on the audio
quality of the person talking, some of the sound design as well as the music that we chose. Now this class is primarily directed to those of you who are trying to better
your audio quality for your YouTube channel. However, as I just mentioned, because I've used
these techniques, is with also with clients. If you are also filmmaker or trying to start a
film production company, you can use these techniques
also in your business. I would literally say that
this class is for those of all levels because I'm going to introduce some
beginner concepts, but also some very
advanced concepts which are not difficult
to apply by the way. So for those of you just
getting started out, don't be scared by that. But they're things
that I've learned, some of them just not too
long ago that really make all the difference in the
audio quality and the sound. So I'm excited to
share those with you.
2. 02 CLASS ASSIGNMENT: Assignment for this
class is going to be taking either the two files
that I'm providing you, that those are the files I'll be working on in this class. So you basically,
you could download them and follow along. Or it can be your own
content that's anywhere 15-20 s long and just shows the before and the after of what it sounded like and
then where you got it two, using the tips and techniques that you learned in this class. Now, because there has
been some confusion a little bit in
previous classes, and I've heard from
some other students and how to upload your assignment. Let's go through
that really quickly. Okay, so let's learn how
to upload your assignment. So I'm in my other class, which if you haven't
checked it out here, wanting curious about its
edit and Final Cut Pro X, quickly and easily,
create your project. You click Create Project. And then here is where a lot of people run into
a little wall. So what really
needs to happen is when you upload your video, see how it says you need
to paste the YouTube, Vimeo or other link. So that's what needs to happen. So after you complete
your assignment, and again, I'm just to be clear, what I'm looking for is record yourself for,
let's say 20 s. And then you're
going to have the, before you started
editing the audio. And then 20 s afterwards, after you went
through this process, I'm showing in this class. So I get to hear what it sounds like and then
everybody else too. So you can inspire
other students. So that can be again, a unlisted
YouTube or Vimeo video. And then you can paste
that in there and it'll show up on the Project
and Resources page.
3. 03 THE RIGHT HEADPHONES: Have you ever heard
the saying that a carpenter is only
as good as his tools? Well, you know what
the saying is really meaning is that
if your tools are limiting your full
capabilities, that's a problem. And so fortunately, when
you're editing audio, you don't need that
much equipment other than your computer. Really, what we're
talking about is getting a good set
of headphones. Now, first of all, there's
two different types, so you can use, there's the
over the ear ones here. And then there's something
like this which is an in-ear monitor or someone
talk about in a second. When we have we've talked
about over the ear, something that I want
to educate you on. A lot of people don't know about because you may
already have a pair, is that a lot of companies
actually EQ their audio means that the kind of tweak the signal to give it
their signature sound. Now, this is great when you're listening to music
as an example, but when you're
editing audio like a vocal track or your voice, you want to listen to all other frequencies
as they are intended. So that's just
something that I'll give to you that if you
haven't already bought a pair or maybe you want
to look at investing in some that don't have
an EQ like these. For an example, I wish I could recommend this exact model. These are sanitizer 3D pros. They don't make these anymore. They do have something
close to equivalent. These are not dequeued. So that's something that I recommend and say
here's a good brand. So I'll put the link to those in the Project and
Resources page. You don't have to go with them, but I would just to make sure
again that they're cute. The second thing I'd
recommend over the ear, and probably one of
the most important other than the sound
is how do they fit? I mean, the comfort. I mean, if you're editing your YouTube videos or
your client projects, I mean, you're gonna be, you're gonna be wearing
these things for awhile. Now I can wear these for 10 h straight and
they don't bother me. It's pretty amazing.
Pretty awesome. Absolutely loved that. But also to the blackout noise. So that's probably
the last thing I would highly recommend. They they really do a good
job so I can really focus on what I'm editing instead of hearing a bunch
of background noise. Now speaking of that, it's
also something that these do. So if you rather be if
you prefer to go with an inferior option
versus an over ear. These are the surer brand, their in-ear monitors,
they're less than 100 bucks. They are inexpensive. But these actually go kinda little hard to get used to because
the way they work, they go over the ear. And then inside, you can see how that works is
they'll go behind your ear. What's awesome is that these were almost
work like an earplug. So they completely
block out sound. They're really crystal clear. They're really nice sounding. But as you can see,
there are also small. So this is what I
used to travel. I'll also use these on client projects to
monitor as I'm recording. So that's great. But like for me, if someone like myself who
will go out and I'll shoot a YouTube video and then
maybe I'll be traveling or on a road trip and be
editing at the same time. This is what I'll use. Something like this is great. Again, I'll leave the link
in the description there. I hope you found
these tips helpful. And once again, I'll leave
the links down below. Now let's move on
to our next lesson.
4. 04 GETTING GOOD AUDIO: We'll get started in
how to edit our audio. I want to step back a little bit and start where we should start in is how to get good
audio in the first place. So I'm not going to go fully into a full in-depth tutorial about recording
audio if I want to give you a few of my main tips, number one has to do
with the microphone and it's microphone choice
and microphone placement. So you'll see below
me here that I have a shotgun microphone and it's below me pointing right
towards my mouth. And you also see the distance. Now, one thing I'll answer
is a the question a lot from people that see this is why do I like it below me
instead of above? Because there is a
lot of filmmakers and other YouTubers that we'll
use the cotton right here. Now, there's nothing
wrong with this at all. Is perfectly acceptable audio, great audio from that. But personally, I've found that my setup is a lot more portable, as well as the fact that below me tends to pick up less of the reverberations
off of the floor and also gives me a
little more fuller sound. So those are the
reasons I do this. Now I use a shotgun
because the sound, so if you're new
to what a shocker microphone is or what it does, it points directly
so it gets it gets the voice right here
and not a surrounding, other, surrounding sounds as other types of microphones will. Now as you've been
listening to me talk, you also have noticed that see how close the mic is to me. Very, very close. Now I want you to
listen to this video, which I purposely put
the microphone far away from me and put it in. So just listen to
this right here. It's something that I mistakenly thought was really
not that important. You really put your
energy into learning. First of all, tell the
volumes will be low. So I'm even just going
to turn up the volume. And let's see if
my headphones on to be able to really hear
what you're hearing here. Cinematography, lighting, editing, and really becoming
good at your craft. What do you hear? Big part of learning how to edit
audio is training your ear. So what do you
hear? You hear how the microphone is
picking up more of the room, the ambient noise. It's not really picking up my
voice like it is right now. I'm emphasizing this point
because just this last week I had a client
send me a bunch of videos they wanted edited. And they had their
microphone way back on their camera in a large room. And there was so much echo, there was nothing I
could do in the editing. And I come across
this quite a bit. And so for those of
you who maybe are beginning in YouTube, I mean, this is just a common thing that people don't realize
and don't think about. And so this is why I really
want to emphasize it. So get your microphone is
close to you as possible. If you don't mind
having this shot, I recommend having
it right here. Now, second main point
when it comes to getting good audio is using location. All jokes aside, that actually
is something to consider. You know, I'm speaking
to a lot of you YouTube creators that may not have a choice like where I'm
recording right now, this is where I can record. So if I had a choice to go to a different studio or whatever that
I would do that. But it is something to consider
when you're recording. Think about, is it
possible to go to a different location
and in your location, what does what does it like? One of the things which is my original main point I was
going to share that has made all the difference for me and recording audio
and people are talking is using some
sort of sound dampening. So what I have right now and
this room is on the table. I have the sound blankets. So it's pretty amazing. These are professional
sound blankets. They absorb they all the sound. It's pretty awesome. And so I have one
up over here as well to prevent the
sound bouncing around, they make a tremendous
difference. Now, there are a lot of that. We'll just use traditional
moving blankets. Those can work,
but I'll tell you, I've found that these are worth the extra money because that's exactly what they're made for. So there's just something
that I had to learn the hard way trying to rush and maybe just
do a quick recording. The learning men, especially
if you have cement floors, tall ceilings, that can
be the worst combination. Laying down a few of these
sound blankets to absorb that, that reflection of sound can really make all the
difference in your recording.
5. 05 CLEANING UP BAD AUDIO: Editing the audio. I'm really excited to
show you my workflow because I think you're
going to find it very fast, simple, and very powerful. Now here I am in Final Cut Pro. This is what I use
to edit a lot of my YouTube videos
and client projects. I also use Da Vinci Resolve. So if you're using
that or Premiere Pro, all this will work just fine because the software we're
using is Adobe addition. So for those of you
other students that are, maybe you're coming over from my Final Cut Pro editing class. I mentioned that you use
a third party software to do my audio editing. Well, adobe Addition, is it? Now? Why? Because I've used a lot of different audio editors
and it comes down to one thing that I keep coming back to that is noise reduction. So this is what I'm
showing you right here as a brief demonstration
in this, in this video. So number one, I'm just show
you just how to export it. So this is a video I have here
for you, Final Cut users. You're gonna wanna go
export, which is Command E. Go into the Settings,
go to audio only. Go next, pick where
you want to save it. And then I'm going
to click Save. And then I'm gonna
go to that location. And I'm gonna go to here, right-click, go into open
with Adobe Audition. Now, here is Adobe addition. So a brief little tour for
those of you who are new. This basically it
shows your files. Here is our left
and right channels. So that's why you see
it the audio twice. And then other than that, here is where we're going to add and subtract our effects. Now I'm just gonna
make this a little bit louder so that we can
hear this effect. I'm going to apply
it. So I'm gonna put it right about here. For right now, this
doesn't matter. I'll put my headphones on so I can here. And I want you to listen
to this right here. Okay. So what that is, I purposely put a fan here behind because this is some
noise, the background. So this is probably the most
common, I think you'd agree. The most common thing
that we have to deal with when we're
editing audio, very first thing we
want to focus on is getting the line noise
or other noise out. So that's what I
want to show you. Adobe Audition has an absolute incredibly
powerful D noisier. So let's, let's do it. If I get in and I'm
just gonna go over to this right here on this rack. I'm going to go into down to Noise Reduction Restoration
in this d noise. Okay? So now what I wanna do is I want you to listen to it with it off. And then I'm going
to turn this on. Okay. Are you ready? This is gonna be off and on. So ready, so I'm surprised how many filmmakers
and then my turn it off. Those are the camera
don't realize the power of being able
to create stock footage. I've made well into six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that it's given me a
tremendous amount of. That's pretty awesome. I've you're literally
use this with a gentleman talking
outside with traffic going by and is able to adjust it enough to
get it completely out. Absolutely incredible. Now
a couple of things here, denoising, a couple of things. So we're going to listen
a little bit more. You'll notice that if you turn the denoising
up way too much, so I'm going to
turn it up to 100. And let's listen to
that for a second. To me, well into six
figures creating stock footage and it's
something that it's given me. What are you here? We're
trying to train our ears. So I'm hearing where it's
a little bit metallic, little bit almost
robot sounding. And now what I'm
going to show you is a tool that we can use
to fine tune this. I can really tell,
I can confirm that, but if I click on output noise, only, what's gonna do is it's
going to show me the noise. It's cutting out just by itself. Here, how much of my
voice is in there. So we don't want that. We don't want we want as
little of the voice as possible because it's just cutting out things that we want. So I'm going to
click this again. And what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna get it back down to here to about halfway. Let's look a little
less than halfway. And I'll turn that off just to listen to what it sounds like footage I've made well, in the six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that it's given me a tremendous amount
of freedom in my life. Okay, so I'm actually going
to come down a little bit, just a little
bit right there. Now here's I'm going
to show you too we can continue to tweak. I would encourage you to
do with your own audio. The audio on the supplying
is that go through and click on these
different selections. Because what this is doing
is, as you can see here, it says focus on lower and higher or you can
just focus on higher. So let's say that the
static that you have with a line noise is a really high frequency and you
want to cut that out. This will help focus on that. Or maybe it's low. Now I have it set
to all frequencies. So I'm just going to keep
it right about there. Something else I'm going
to come we're gonna come back to how to get
this all the way out. So let me, let me show
you this or I'm surprised how many filmmakers and
those are the cameras don't realize the power of being
able to create stock footage. I've made well into six figures. Now I'm going to leave a tiny
bit of that noise there. Because if I continue
to take that out as I've just shown you that my voice is a little robotic. And because I'm going to show
you another amazing effect. Adobe Addition has, it works brilliantly for removing some of this excess noise
in the background. So I'm gonna go down here. I'm going to add another effect. I'm going to go underneath
amplitude and compression this time, dynamics processing. So I'll just show you
a couple of things and then it'll make more sense probably if you're not
familiar with this. But for those of you who
are a little more familiar, and also for those of you
who've done color grading, this is an allergy like to use. This is like we're going to
add an S curve to our voice. So let me show you what I mean. The first thing I do is
when I click spline curves. Now this is something that I use Adobe Audition for a long time and didn't, didn't click this. What this allows you
to do is I'm going to, when I bring this down, this allows me to have a curve
which is a nice fall off. Now, what is this doing? This is, I'm going
to show you here right now what this is doing. I'm going to bring
this down. Now. Listen to my voice
with it on and off. I'm surprised how
many filmmakers and those are the cameras don't realize the power of being able to create
stock footage. I've made well into six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that it's given me a tremendous amount
of freedom in my life. And so my goal right
now is just feel to it. Okay, so you see this
little red meat are going, There was doing is
as soon as it might, my voice gets down
to certain volume, it's cutting the rest out. So let's turn it back off
and I'll let see if you can hear that background that his son is going on
in the background. I'm surprised how
many filmmakers and those are the cameras don't realize the power of being able to create
stock footage. I've made. Well, now
let's turn it back on. I'm surprised how
many filmmakers and those are the cameras don't realize the power of being able to create
stock footage. Beautiful. Isn't that nice? So
this is another way to cut out some of that
excess without really what I've happens a lot of the times what you'll
try to do and with noise reduction alone is you try to reduce it
and reduce it so much. Then again, it starts
affecting the voice quality. So we get that to a certain
point where we're okay. And now it really cleans
up the audio or able to kill the noise in-between
when I'm not speaking. And then also one thing I
wanna show you that to adjust. Let me show you
what it sounds like when there's too much. So I'm going to
pull this out here. Realize the power of being
able to create stock footage. I've made well into six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that It's given me a tremendous
amount of freedom to hear. My voice is kinda
pull in and out. So that's when, you know,
there's just too much. So what I'll do is
I'll bring this down because it's
bringing it down in volume where it starts to
actually have the effect. And I bring that down there. And so what happens is
it goes back footage. I've made well into six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that it's given me a tremendous amount
of freedom in my life. And so my goal right now
is this field to educate as many as possible how to successfully create
stock footage. Now I mentioned an S curve. Well, in the next lesson here, we really get down to equalization and working
with other audio. I'm going to show you
what I mean by adding. We're going to add the
top of that curve and you're really going to hear
a difference in the audio, but to recap really quickly. So what did we did in
this little lesson here is we went in
and we denoise. We use the eraser to take
you off excess static. And we also use dynamics processing to pull
out some of the in-between noise and really be able to make it more of
like almost like a podcast. That's what we're
going for, right? So again, now we're
gonna go into equalization and making the
voice really, really shine.
6. 06 BEFORE AFTER FAN NOISE: Now before we move on to
the next lesson in which I'll be using a
different audio file. I want to show you
the before and the after of winter when
we first brought the file in and now
I went ahead and use this process they're going to be teaching in the
rest of this class. And I want you to hear
what it sounds like after, I'm surprised how
many filmmakers and those are the cameras don't realize the power of being able to create
stock footage. Okay, now I'm going to turn on all of the effects that we did. I'm surprised how
many filmmakers and those are the camera don't realize the power of being able to create
stock footage. I've made well into six figures
creating stock footage. And it's something that It's given me a tremendous
amount of freedom in my life. And so my goal right now
is this field to educate as many as possible how to successfully create
stock footage. You hear the difference. So we have that really
that fan noise, the background, we have, the dynamics are a
little bit flat. The equalizer, there's just, there's not a brightness there. So we brighten it up
and we like again, so we've added
that the de-noise. This is how I wanted
to show you this. Basically, if you happen to
have not a great recording, then this is what Adobe Audition can do and this process can do. Now, let's go over and let's
edit a good audio file. And I'll walk
through this process step-by-step and give you
some details along the way.
7. 07 MAIN EDITING WORKFLOW: Okay, here is audio from a recent YouTube video
that I'm putting together. And so I've done
that same process again for you Falco users. I've just exported out as audio only and then I
wouldn't open it up here. In addition. Now, here's the first
thing I'll start with is so I'm gonna go through this a little more
in depth as I mentioned. You can see right here
I want to show you something that I use constantly. I use the visuals, the visual wave form. When I'm editing
audio constantly, both in editing, in the editor. When I say that,
I mean Final Cut. And also here in addition, I can see that the top
is about negative nine. And really the bulk of the audio is ready button and see that
versus negative 15. Now as a rule of thumb, this isn't this isn't
like a concrete rule. What I would like this
to be is at negative six with the top being
at negative three. So what I know is that my
audio is a little bit quiet. Now there's a couple of
different ways you can do this. Sometimes you can boost this since I know that
I probably want, you know, about 90 bees. I could do that on
the whole file. I can go up and I can get it up there or maybe you just I it. So I'll use my eyes
right now to six. And I get a little bit louder so that I can hear things
a little bit better. That's probably what
I would do here. So I would boost it
up so that I get it right about negative six there. And you'll notice there's
some things going up. And so we'll get back to the actual the volume a
little in a little bit. So after I do that, the
first thing I'll do is I'll go and I'll listen to this and see if it needs some denoising. Let's check this out. If you do that, that's actually where your
money has come from. This is a simple statement. They are who is
paying your bills? This is a pretty good
recording because I don't have a lot of background noise like we did
in that previous lesson. I'm actually not going to
use the denoise or as much. And if I do, I'll
tell you what I'll do is I'll go in here and I'll add the de-noise just to
just as a refresher on the actual process. But I'll pull it way down here. I'll pull it just a
little bit because it just cleans it up a tiny bit. I'll play that for you or
who is paying your bills. So don't stop. It's a pretty simple
statement, pretty simple idea. They're going to either hire you again or refer you to others. And after doing that for awhile, Dan, how valuable the
client relationship was. And as a result,
I can say proudly that you can hear that we're
trying to train our ears. It just takes a little
bit of line noise out. It's really nice. It
just takes that out, but it's not DKNY
way from my voice. So parametric equalizer. Now some asked me, Well, why
would I use a parametric? It's because parametric
allows you to choose certain frequencies and
really dial them in. And that's what we
want because I'm gonna teach you something that some of the best audio
engineers have taught me, and that's called a sweep. So what I'm gonna do is I'm a first start here
with this four. This four is just a
section of frequencies. And so I'm gonna
take it and go to this queue width
and turn this up. Now what that's doing is
the higher the number goes, the thinner that this gets in the least amount of frequencies
that we're getting. We want that because
we're trying to isolate which perhaps or
some bad frequencies causing some reverbs are some small little echos that are creating a little bit
of mud in the voice. And so we don't want
that. So let's listen. As I do this sweep. Over the last 11 years, 70% of the clients that
I've serviced have come back for more work
and if also referred. And so that's a large part
of how I've been able to hear that here, a little bit more
of that and it's almost painful listened to you, but you can really hear it. That's a large part of why I've been able to have
a steady stream of clients. See that. So this is again, something
that we wouldn't do this, we probably wouldn't
pick up on that. Now, I know this when this room with my voice
or right around two k is the time where all
tend to have problems with with these bad
frequencies building up. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna take that and we're going to
do is I'm just going to pull it down to
about negative ten. And I'll put it
right about there. I'm actually going to keep it a little bit wider
because I could hear that there is
frequencies kind of a little bit of a wider zone that we're giving problems. Now I'll do a sweep
with this one. So I'll play, I'm
going to get this a little bit thinner now, so new that do the next
one. So we'll go here. I'll be able to have really
strong client relationships, have really good rapport, have a really high
recommendation rating with them. And I would say one
specific thing that I have done is why gave you,
I gave you a cup. And it'd be honest, there's quite a bit
actually going on there. So what I might do is I might take this and I
might just go here. And I might just take quite
a bit in, widen this out. And so because we got some
Halloween kinda going on, so I'll take it right
there a little bit less subtle and then
just widen it out. So that subtracts
almost all of that. And then I'm gonna go to
the next, next one here. And then I'll do the same thing. You're probably getting the
drift. Now what I'm doing, I'm doing this sweep. Couple of things. We're working
through the project. It's having the attitude
that they have requests. Well, you're going to do all you can to make those requests. And so you're saying that
we happy to do that now, if their requests are going to take you still almost a boom, boom, boom going on
in the background. And so again, it's this little buildup,
their frequencies. Now, here's the where the main points I want
you to take away. I want you to listen
to this now on an off, because here is what
I'd like to teach you. Oftentimes, we think
we're editing audio, that it's actually
adding something, right? When we jumped into
the equalizer, we're going to boost the treble, going to boost the base. But really it's about
taking the bad frequencies out and then it naturally leaves the good
frequencies there. It makes it sound like you actually boosted
them, but you didn't. So let's listen to
that really quickly. Here is with this, we've just taken out that there. I'm actually going to go
before I forget them and take out the low all the way the low. This is something that a lot of engineers
will tell you to do because there's just some of the mud
possibly is there. And so I'll take
some of that out. Now let's just listen
to this clip again here with this is with it on a couple of bullet points
of how you can apply this. So number one, we go
back to market research. So if you're a content
creator online content cam and turn and turn it off
and listen to it again. Cool idea, but let's
hit a couple of bullet points of how
you can apply this. Number one, we go back
to market research. So if you're a content creator, online content creator
for either Instagram, Facebook or social media
platforms or YouTube. Well, there's tools out
there, get educated. They actually go
into, for instance, you can go into Google and
turn it on, turn it off again. And you can look at what people are looking
for on YouTube. Similar thing. Get those tools, learn
how to use them. Because instead of just
a bunch of content hoping that people
are looking for it, you'll actually be
able to find out, okay, can you hear that? We're trying to train the ear so they're a little
reverb going on. That's the buildup in the room. That's what you're taking out. It's cleaning up the voice. Now, I've just done partly EQ. This part is taking out the bad. Now we're going to
boost some of the good. And when we turn it on and off, you're really going to
notice a difference. Okay, so let's do that. So I'm gonna go over here. I'm gonna make this amount
of boost the clarity. So then this range here is
our clarity in our voice. So I'm just going to take
this up a little bit. I'm gonna go to this
one around 100 is the lower part of the voice
that I want to boost a little bit and I'll
just listen to it as I'm giving you just a couple of I've given you
a general idea, but let's hit a couple
of bullet points of how you can apply this. So number one, we go
back to market research. So if you're a content creator, online content creator
for either Instagram, Facebook or social media
platforms or YouTube. Well, there's tools out there, get educated, can turn it off. Actually go into
like for instance, you can go into
Google and you can look at what people are
looking for on YouTube. Similar thing. Get those tools, learn how to use them. Because instead of just
creating a bunch of content and hoping that people
are looking for it. You'll actually be able to
find out what people are searching for and
create that content.
8. 07B MAIN EDITING PART 2: The next step in this process is something we just did
in the previous lesson. We were talking about
removing noise. And so that's going to
be adding our dynamics. So then this time I'm gonna go through it a little
bit more in depth. Okay? So we're gonna go
here and this is really good or really
make our voice shine. So we're going to add our
dynamics so that again, that was in amplitude and compression dynamics processing. Then I want to stop
here for a second and just explain a little
bit in case for some of you, if you didn't understand
what this is, I'll try to give you a little
bit better definition. You see here that this is
the amplitude on the side, then it goes crossways here. So what I'm doing
is if I click on the middle, everything here. So if I go down here about it, about anywhere below
this is below this, this amount is going
to be cut completely. So that's where it cuts out any noise in the
background, whatever it is. If it's below this amplitude,
is going to cut that out. Now notice again, this is
just a hard heart angle here. As I mentioned when the
secrets is to click that spline curve
because it smooths out the reduction is and make it so harsh and robotic,
want to pull that out. So remember what we did here. So now that I'm, when I'm
talking, let's review. I'm now let's go back and revisit these three points and then I'll give
you just a couple of, I've given you a general idea, but let's hit a couple
of bullet points of how you can apply this. So number one, we go
back to market research. So if you're a content creator, online content creator
for either Instagram, now watch the Red
Sea as it's working, that red is coming down. It's reducing the noise, right? And you see how much
I've got it down. So you kinda see
that again, this is almost like a podcast voice, which is a great effect. We want to work with Facebook or social media
platforms or YouTube. Well, there's tools out there. Get educated, really
clean, right? It really cleans it up. Let's listen to it without and
then I'll turn it back on. Now let's go back and
revisit these three points. And then I'll give
you just a couple of, I've given you a general idea, but let's hit a couple
of bullet points of how you can apply this. So number one, we go
back to market research. So if you're a content creator online, so you can
really hear it there. When I stop, pause for a second. It just cuts it down to nothing. Scrape cleans up anywhere in-between breaths
but I'm talking. But now here's what I told you. That this is where we
really make it shine. I'm gonna turn this up
right up here on top. Okay, so now we have this true
kind of S curve coming in. Now I want you to listen to
the voice, the difference. Couple of, I've kind of
given you a general idea, but let's hit a couple
of bullet points of how you can apply this. If you're a content creator, online content creator
for either Instagram, Facebook or social media
platforms or YouTube. Well, there's tools out
there, get educated. He did actually go
into like springs since you can go into Google and you can look at what
people are looking. Now, take it off. And I'm just gonna move it
back and forth so you can hear the difference
for on YouTube. Similar thing. Get those tools, learn
how to use them. Because instead of just
creating a bunch of content, hoping that people
are looking for it, you'll actually be
able to find out. Isn't that amazing? I mean, that really
adds fullness presence. It's almost like you're
bringing the mic even closer to you. It really adds a punch
to the voice that just isn't there without
adding these dynamics. So this is what we
talked about before. This S curve to the voice, which again for you, those you understand what
that is in color grading, you know what that does as contrast to the, to the colors. So we're doing the same thing. Now. Lastly, I'm going to go in here and I'm
going to watch my dad, my audio levels where it is now, now that I've boosted
some of that, Let's look at my
audio levels and cod need to do for my limiter. Let's go back and revisit these three points and then I'll give you
just a couple of, I've given you a general idea, but let's hit a couple of bullet points of how you can apply it. So mostly I think it's
not really peaking much, but here's the thing
you always want to do. I can see this visually. I can see where this
is going up above it and nothing's really
hitting up at zero. But just to be able to
make this a little louder, I want all of these to
hit at negative six. And so I'm just going to go down and I'm going to add
my hard limiter. So that's amplitude
compression hard limiter. I'm going to add three points or three dBs here and have
a negative three here. And then let's
listen to that now. They're going to either hire you again or refer you to others. And after doing that for awhile, pretty soon you'll find
yourself in a place where you don't have to go in market or look for work and you don't, you'll never be a
starving artist. That's really pronounced. I might pull this
down a little bit. For those of you
like that sound, That's all I would call
a very compressed sound. You can do that, but I might
go like one-and-a-half here so that it adds just a little bit more
variance in my voice. And then we can
listen to that was, and as a result, I can say proudly that over
the last 11 years, 70% of the clients that I've serviced have come
back for more work. And if also. See how this little push and pull back-and-forth and it
gets a little bit too much. And I go back to my dynamics. I'm going to edit that effect. I'm gonna pull this
so that's a little softer on the reduction, okay, serve your clients better. And the more that
they're going to either hire you again or
refer you to others. And after doing that for awhile, pretty soon you'll find yourself in a place where you
don't have to go in. Okay, Now, let's
let me show you. Let's go back and review. Let's go back to when it
was when we opened it. So don't surprise. I'm sure you've may
have heard this before. It's simple. Get them to click to where we just were found for those who really flies that are maybe not applying this
to the full extent. Because maybe they're still
kind of caught up on how talented they are with their previous
accomplishments are. And they forget that when
you're working for a client, it's like being an employee. In the more that you
can think like that, the more that you will get, you'll serve your clients
better and the more that. So what do you think?
Pretty awesome. I mean, that's a really
awesome contrasts from when we really
brought it in, knowing that this is
a good recording. No background noise, had a
good mic and a good position. And really was able to make that much difference
in is pretty quick. So here to finish this out. In addition, here's what you do. My favorite parts. Go here and go click Apply. If you do not click
Apply, just so you know, you try to save this
without clicking Apply, it will not really do much. So you'll be
disappointed when you drag your audio back in. Now once that's done
applying the effects, here's a really important part. You have to save it. So Command S for save, then it saves that. So that now here's probably my favorite
parts is that it's so simple to get it
back into Final Cut. So Reveal in Finder, take it right here, There's
the file, drag it down. There it is. And you can see the difference between
where we had it before. So I'm going to take this file. Then I will take the audio out. So we'll take this out. And then it's perfectly sink because that's something else you should know
when I export it, I didn't do anything different. I didn't do anything
different to the duration of the file. Does that make sense? Let's just review it. I'm talking about I didn't
try to cut anything here. Because if I do
that, the duration, the end or the out is
different and it won't sink up like I just did
right here perfectly. So that's what I recommend. So now I go to play this video. So what would you say is
the most important aspect of becoming a
successful filmmaker? Is it learning the camera, the, the perfect angles, be
able to just shoot. So pretty good audio. Right now, there's probably
a little bit of adjustment and then maybe some of this
is up to personal taste. Just like how we like
to color grade or we like certain colors
and our photography. You can absolutely adjust
it to your needs and your likes as far as maybe in your equalization
or your Dynamics. But that in a nutshell, is the process that
can take you from your editor into the powerful
program of adobe Addition. Do the edits that you need to do and bring it back and
have some awesome, amazing audio for
your YouTube videos or your client projects.
Vinnie Van Wyk, Online Educator
