Master Sound Design for Video Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro

1. Welcome! Start Here: Welcome to Premiere Pro Sound Design for video editing. I'm glad, and I'll guide you through making your video sound professional. Same video, three different feelings. In any video, sound shapes the mood and holds attention. How do you control that feeling by getting three things right, voice, music and sound effects working together. This course is for anyone who edits videos and wants a simple, reliable audio workflow inside Premiere Pro. We'll skip the jargon and focus on the moves that matter, making narration easy to hear, snapping a track to your story, and adding sound effects with purpose. Together, we'll set up the Audio workspace in presets, clean and level voice, balance it with music, and play sound effects that lift the moment. You'll learn to read meter with keep loudness consistent and finish with short form or long form projects, built from the same repeatable systems. All practice files and presets are included in the resources section. And if you're wondering who I am, I'm blod. I've spent over a decade editing videos, managing two of the biggest YouTube channels in their niches. I've built editing systems that generate millions of we, and I'm showing you how to bring the same level of craft and polish to your own or clients videos. I recommend watching videos and every lesson builds onto the previous one, giving you a smooth and natural curve that can pounce as you go. You can control the volume and the playback speed of every video to learn at your own pace. If you get stuck having questions, be sure to drop them in the Q&A section below. Just make sure to check the existing questions first because there's a good chance that the question you want to ask has already been answered in detail. At some point, you'll be asked to leave review. Please wait until you've had a good chance to really experience the material. Your honest feedback helps improve the course and better serve you and future students. Thanks again for joining this class. I'm excited to help you Master Sound Sign Premiere Pro and give you the confidence to use it in real projects whether personal or client based. Let's jump to the first lesson. 2. Why Sound Design Matters for Video Editing: No Audio vs Music vs SFX: Video, talk about why sounds and music matter. I'd like to show you an example. I have exactly the same video for the scary and for the happy video. Exactly the same. It's just in the woods, the cameras going left to right, right, left, and let's take a listen to the difference. So this is the happy one. It sounds like a peaceful morning. Everything's great or the evening, but it does sound like the morning as if the nature is about to wake up. And let's listen to the scary one. So how do you feel? For me, the difference is just, I mean, it's completely different videos. Although we have exactly the same video, we can completely change the way this video is perceived with the sound. And that works with music, with sound effects, with everything. We can make that feel childish or mature. We can make it feel scary or happy. We can make it feel expensive or cheap. We can influence the mood. We can influence the pacing. We can influence the quality, the clarity, whatever you think about music and sound effects play a ginormous oh, that's exactly what we're going to learn. The sound effects, the music, we're also going to learn how to work with your own sound so that it sounds crisp, expensive, and just easy to understand. I'll also show you real life projects of short form and long form videos from the very beginning to the very end of editing everything in terms of the sound, the music. So let's get to the next video and jump into Premiere to begin. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that. See you. 3. Premiere Pro Audio Workspace Setup: Essential Sound, Meters & Presets: Video, let's set up audio workspace. When we open Premiere, your workspace might look slightly different from mine. That's a great thing about premiere is that you can customize the way your workspace looks. Usually, in order to work with the audio, you have to go into workspaces at the top right corner, then go into audio and here, you will have the audio. For example, I have this audio piece here. Whenever I select it, I have my essential sound here at the top right corner and I can choose what to do with it. Here on top, it says that it is the SFX, but I can clear the audio type. I can say it's a dialog and then go ahead and customize it and so on. That's the central sound panel, which we are going to use a lot. Another important aspect is the audio track mixer. If we click on this button here, we can open it and you'll see that we have these columns. The column number one is the audio track number one. This is number two, number three, and one until we get to the very last one, which says mix and mix, it's just all the audio tracks together. If we come to the first one and we add any of the effects from here, it's going to affect track number one. If we had our audio on track number two and we had lots of effects, let's say on track number one, something like this, and let's put something else, like that, it wouldn't affect this audio piece because it's on the audio track number two, so it's on this one here. But on this one, we have lots of effects. It's pretty important because we'll be able to save time for us by using the audio track mixer and by using the essential sound. I to make things as simple as possible, we'll be using mostly just these two, and it's going to save a ton of time for us. There's this very interesting phenomenon life where 80% of the work can be done with 20% of the effort and 20% of the work can be done with 80% of the effort. It's like the first 80%, is the easy stuff that can be done quite easily with least amount of tools, least amount of time. But then that last part that this optimization, it never ends. I lasts forever. So these are the main tools that we'll be needing. I mean, of course, we can go so deep into this, but there's no need for us to go there. We always should ask ourselves, is the audio good? Can people hear? Can they understand is high quality? If so, then there's no need to try to squeeze anything else out of already squeezed lemon. We can leave it as it is. Now, let's jump back into Premiere and let's say you don't want to switch the workspace all the time. Well, there's another way to do it. Let's say I go into the vertical workspace. I can go into Window, and then I can add here the essential sound, which is already added for me. And then I can also add the audiotrack mixer. I can add here. Now, you'll see that I'm in the vertical workspace, but I have the audio track mixer and the essential sound here, so I can select it, and it will be exactly the same. So if you don't want to switch workspaces, this is an easy way to do this, and I do it quite often like this. Usually it depends on the type of project that I'm working on or the project or the season that I'm working in. So that's how you do it. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that. I'll see you in the next video. 4. Micro-Project: Premiere Pro Audio Setup & Real-World Sound Awareness: Seen why sound design matters. You've seen the workplace optimization premiere pro. Now, two quick tasks for you. First of all, go into Premiere and customize the workspace to your liking. Either open the audio workspace, just make sure that it does exist for you or go ahead and open your main workspace and add a couple of panels like Essential Sound and audio track mixer. Once that's done, I do recommend paying attention to sounds around you. It's a really good practice just to understand what's around you all the time. Whenever you go for a walk or to do any sports, just pay attention to the things around you. It's going to be like cars, other people, animals, insects, just some sort of machinery. It will help you in the future because you will be familiar with the sounds. Oftentimes, we'll go through our life on autopilot, but it really helps break the pattern and really remember the sounds better. So go and do that. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, see you in the next video. 5. Premiere Pro Voice-Over Cleanup: Noise Removal, EQ & Limiter: Well, in this video, you learn how to clean up your voice in Premiere, specifically through a four step process. First of all, you'll have access to this video in the downloadable resources section. So go ahead and access that, download and open Premiere. Next, we need to select the speech, which is going to be the green line at the bottom, or lots of green clips, small clips. First thing we need to do is click on automat, you'll see that it says automatch to target loudness of -23 loves. When it comes to human speech, it should be roughly at about -16 to -19 loves. By clicking this button, we get premier to do it at -23. Now, in order for us to get it to -18 or -16, we need to still having the clip selected, press and G. Let's select again, press and G. And to adjust gain by, in this case, five, to make it louder by 5 decibels and pressing okay. You can see, it just became a little bit louder. Now, specifically, why are we doing this sequence? We're trying to make our audio as loud as possible but so that it doesn't clip. Clipping of the audio means whenever we listen to it and it reaches 0 decibels, the sound cracks and it becomes pretty bad. Well, we don't want that, but the same time, we don't want our video to be very quiet. So this is exactly where we're doing it. There are also many ways to achieve the same result in the same effect, the same loudness, but this is the easiest and most convenient way to do it. If a person G, we can also click on normalized peaks or normalize peaks Max peaks or peaks to a specific decibel number. We're not doing that because we don't want just the peaks to be high, we want the average speech to be higher because if we just lower the highs, then it's not going to help, then it's going to be quite in the middle. If you know what I mean? They're highs, middles, lows and we want everything to be adjust a little bit higher. When I think about this, I think about the lumetri color. So if I quickly show you this, if I go into color, it's similar to the lumetroscopes. Let's think of the highs as the highlights. We have highlights here at the top and we don't want to increase just the highlights. We want to increase the whole image, brightness of the whole image so that the middles go up as well. That's what the middles are the loves and the peaks are here at the top. If it sounds confusing at any point, totally understandable if you have any questions, please reach out in the unit section below. Once we did the first two steps, we go into our workspace and we need to go into the audio workspace and we'll do two things here. We have our audio on track number one and on track number one, which is this one, once again, track name, number one, we need to click here. The first one we need is amplitude compression, hard limitter. Hard limiter is going to limit the audio from reaching 0 decibels and picking or cracking or losing its quality. Because for example, at some point, for example, here, let's listen. Hook. Okay, it almost reaches it. It grabs attention. It's about to reach it like here. In step three, all right, let me open. Open it up a little bit. Step three, almost reaches zero. We need to limit it. And the reason for that is because the next effet that we're going to do is we're going to increase the quality of the sound of our speech. And if we increase it, then it might go over zero, but we're going to limit it in advance. So hard limiter, we can either just double click on it and we can customize the settings here or we can right click and press on Limit two -3 decibels. If I double click, it's going to be exactly the same as let me press Command, double click. So we -0.1, if I press minus three here, it's the equivalent of just pressing minus three here. It's exactly the same number. And then the last step that we need to do, the fourth step is click here, filter in the queue, parametric equalizer. Once again, very similar thing either double click or right click. So we can double click and click on vocal enhancer. You'll see that instead of it being a straight line, which is default. We put the vocal enhancer and makes the audio sound better. It's more crispy. There is more base. Everything about the audio becomes better, and you can see that the different frequencies, it either lowers the frequency or makes it a little bit higher. That's the way we achieve this very good and high quality voice. Now, let's listen to this video and I'll be pressing Command set to turn off the effects and you'll hear the difference. Every viral short you've ever watched follows this exact three step formula, and once you know it, you'll see it everywhere. Step one, the hook. It grabs attention the first 2 seconds. Step two, retention, every line, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Step three, the report that satisfying payoff or call to action that makes people like, share or follow. Master those three, and you'll never post another flop. So you could hear throughout this video there we points of the audio being a little bit more crisp and the other portion was kind of muddy in a way. I wasn't crisp. And this is what the vocal enhancer does. So once again to recap, we to select our audio clicon Auto Match. Then we to press on G and adjust gain by five. That's how we make it to -18 love. We need to add the hard limiter so that our audio doesn't peak at zero and we need to add the parametric cecizer to make our audio better to enhance it. By the way, this video that was playing in the background, it was made for you as well. It's the information on how to structure short from videos. If you have any questions, let me know, add that. I'll see you in the next video. 6. Balance Voice & Music in Premiere Pro: Clear Dialogue Over Background Tracks: In this video, let's talk about the voice versus music balance. There are going to be separate videos on how to choose the right tracks, how to put everything together. In this video is just specifically how to balance the two together. It's pretty simple as well. First, we need to select our music, go into our effects and search for parametric equalizer. But in this one, we need simple parametric Q. So simple one and then put it in. Now, a very important part. I'm just going to apply a preset, which is lower music for voice. You'll see that it is a simple prometric Q. If you put these numbers, these specific numbers, it's going to lower the heights of the music so that they don't compete with your voice. By searching simple parametric EQ, just apply it onto your audio and then copy the setting. In the end, you should look like this. Then once you have this, just go ahead right click Save preset, give it a name. In my case, it was lower music for voice and good to go. Anytime in the future, whenever you add a music, just add this effect and it's going to lower the highs of the music, so that is going to be better. Now, let's take a look at the difference. Why are we doing this? So let's turn of the effect, and this is going to be the song. Can you hear the difference? It is unbelievable. This was a game changer when I first heard about this and learned about this and started using this. The videos became just ten times better. I really recommend you to use this. It's going to completely change the quality of the videos. Let's put this clip to our video, having the simple Primag and let's listen. 2 seconds. Step two, retention, every line, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Great. However, it still competes a little bit just because the background music is a little bit too loud. And what I recommend you do is selected press and G, and this is a personal choice. Some people choose -30 deciols, some people choose -15, and also depends on the loudness of music. The best approach that you should use is just practice, and then you'll be able to easily identify this. But for example, for this song, I would put it roughly two -15 and I would listen to how it sounds. Blaine, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Step three, the reward that satisfying payoff or call to action that makes people like, share or follow. Master those three, and you'll never post another flop. One, the hook. I grabs attention the first 2 seconds. Step two remains pretty good. You can hear the song. You can hear myself. So pretty good. I mean, there's not necessarily need to optimize it any further. However, based on the personal choice, you can make it a little bit quieter or a little bit louder. For clients, I usually put it to -20 to 25 to 30, depending on the music. They preferred it when it was a little bit more quiet rather than loud. So let's give it to minus five extra and see how tones. At tension every line, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Mm hmm. Well, for me, it's just a little bit too quiet. So I'm going to press Command and you can see it becomes a little bit louder again, so it comes back to -15 instead of -20. It's also important to know that different devices have different loudnesses. So in headphones, you hear it one way, but then on a laptop, you will hear it another way. And then on a phone, it's going to be even further other way. It's impossible to optimize it for all devices that exist. I would just try to make it as good as possible, and that's going to be the 80%. Don't try to optimize those last 20% because once again it's going to take forever. This is good enough. Just put the simple parmigQ save this as a preset, then select it G, roughly -15 -20 -25 depending on the song. If you hear that it just competes with the voice a little bit too much, lower down. If you cannot hear it in the background, raise it up. It's a simple set. There's no need to overthink this. It's just super straightforward like this. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 7. Micro-Project: Clean & Balance Voice-Over: You've just seen me clean up the voice and balance it with music. Now, it's your turn to do so. In the downloadable resources section, go ahead and find the clip. Download it Open ten premiere and have a practice yourself. Follow the four step process for the voice, create preset for the music, and try to listen. It's a little bit too loud, it's a little bit too quiet. It's all personal choice, but have a go at it. If you have any questions, let me know. Add that. I'll see the next video. 8. Choose the Right Music Fast: BPM, Energy & Loops for Video Edits: Video let's discuss, how do you pick the right track fast? Well, first thing, to understand what is your video about? Is it a documentary? Is it a software video? Is it a fun video? Is it a tutorial? Is it drama? Is it comedy? Like, what kind of genre is? What is the video about? Once you understand that, that's a good starting point. Well, one way you can just easily ask GPT and it will literally create a an answer for you like this, based on what's already been created hPT doesn't have creativity, doesn't come up with something that's going to be relevant. It just takes everything that's ever existed on all the information that it has, and then it gives you the answer based on the history. Anyway, let me show you Epidemic Sound as an example. Let's say we have a comedy video. The first thing I would do and specifically on Epidemic Sound is I would go into music because that's the track part. That's where we find the music. Then I would scroll down a little bit and at Come here. We can choose any of these, so for example, tutorials, trial, podcast, cinematic, and so on. So let's choose comedy. Goofy moments. Let's open this one. And we can listen for the trucks. The next step is literally to just go ahead and listen to the songs and try to understand, is that what you're looking for, or will that work for that video? Sometimes I do have to go through, let's say, dozens and dozens of tracks, and I literally mean dozens. So I would scroll down and potentially get to the very bottom and the last song might work or it might not work. Then I'd have to go, for example, back to comedy or to different themes and just see, maybe there's something else that's going to be a little bit better, and then I just go ahead and open that and search one of the very important things is, let me show you by going into travel and for example, sounds of Japan. Let's come here. You can see that, for example, an epidemic sound shows that if there are vocals, if there's speech or somebody singing, if not, it's not going to show it here and then it's just going to be beats, melody, orchestral. But if you have this one, I recommend avoiding it. Why? Because it's going to compete with what you say. You either have to technically get rid of that so that you can barely hear the speech or the singing or just don't use that at all. You to make things simple, I never use anything with vocals. It simplifies my job. If you go into the bottom left cornea, you can see stamps here, you can open it. And then you can download specific parts. You can only download the melody, the instruments bass trumps. Usually, I don't do it. If there's something very specific, I might if let's say one of those is distracting and I want to get rid of that, then I might download, like, three of them and use the three instead of the four. But it's pretty rare. What I oftentimes do is just go ahead and click on Download and you just going to download. It going to premiere, see if it works. If it does work, I'll just this is the part that I really, really like about epigram sounds because it's already structured. You can search by genres, by moods, by themes, by artists. If you have artists that you like, you can go ahead and click on them. It also simplifies our job because, for example, if we're doing something in terms of the tutorial, we can click on Tutorial, and then instead of us having to figure out, does this work for tutorial or not, this mus will work for tutorials. They put it together on purpose. But if you use something like Pexels, which is a bit more limited than epidemic sound, and I'll talk about the difference between those two websites in a couple of videos. But let's say we're here and went to search for music and we would search for tutorial, and then I'd still have to just go ahead and listen. And then if I like it, once again, download it, put it in premiere, and that's it. Let's recap. Note likect the right track. First, avoid the vocals, understand what your videos about and try to match the dynamic or the mood or the genre of the video. Then just go ahead and try it out, put it into Premiere, see if it works. Oftentimes, I find a song that I think will work great, but it doesn't work. That's not a problem. I just do it once again and that's it. I might do it five, ten times. The more you practice, the more you understand with time you can also build the library of the music that you use. Oftentimes. You wouldn't even have to think about this. You'll be able to just click on the song and know exactly where it's going to go. That's how you do it. If you have any questions, let me know than that, see you in the next video. 9. Cut to the Beat in Adobe Premiere Pro: Beat Markers, Intros/Outros & Endings: Come in this video, we'll cut the music to the beat. First of all, I just want to show you one feature on Epidemic Sound where I just found a great song. There's a feature playlist slash themes and there's now trending. And when I open this one, this is the song that I actually quite like. When I was listening to the song, I found specifically three moments. First, the very beginning, which is this sound in the very beginning, this one. Then the beginning of the song, which is the beginning of the bit and this is exactly cutting to the bit. This is what I'm talking about when I mentioned this is this part here when the bit starts, and then the very end, when the song ends. So let's listen to it. First of all, there's this very interesting beginning, and then there's a clear bit of when the song starts. I absolutely love when it's like this because some of the songs sometimes, like, just like flat throughout the video, just beat throughout song, throughout the music. But this one, it starts in an interesting way, and the very first sound is interesting. And then as the beat begins, it's also quite interesting. And then in the very end, it's also pretty good. So if you listen to it, so. I look for those three parts, and then I download the song, and I know right away which parts will go where. So let's the song. I'm going to use the full mix and click and Download. Then I'm going to open Premiere and literally just drag and drop this song over here. I'm going to double click on it, and we'll see the same waveforms as we saw on Epidemic und. Let's listen to this very beginning. This part is quite long. I'm not sure if we'll use everything. But specifically trying I will try to find the bit first for and starts. So we hear three bits here in the very beginning, this one, two, and three. Listen again. It's like two, two, two. And then we have this very big bit, which is the main one. So we had pom. Then when we hear the big bit, the music and background begins as well. For me, it's very important to use this, and if we take a look at people like aseNisa or the Big creators or anyone who's in the editing workspace. When the cuts are precise and the music bits are precise, it becomes a lot more expensive. Cutting on the beat is super super important. I'm just going to market over here and then I'll go a little bit further. Doesn't matter where and I'm going to mark out. The reason I'm doing this is because if I don't and I click on drag the audio, it's going to drag the whole song. Don't need that. I can just mark it out, like so and just drag a small part, and then I can make it a little bit more if I need to. And let's come to the very beginning and Okay. So I want the beat to start when the middle portion of the video starts. When there's an intro, I want to use the beginning of the song, which is going to be this part over here. But since we are now putting the middle part, I want to use the middle part to start after the intro, where we have the main part of the video. Where? Step one. The hook. It grabs attention first 2 seconds. Step two, retention. Every line had more visual, keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Step three, the reporting satisfying playoff or culture that many people like, share follow. Pass to those three and you'll never post another film. When we have the end or the payoff or the reward part, we'll use another part of the song as well. This is the middle part because this is the intro. The first 5 seconds is the intro, roughly. Every viral short you've ever Worse follows this exact three step formula and once you know it, you'll see it everywhere. Step hook. It grabs ten. Great. I also like that this music is not overpowering my voice. So even though we didn't do any adjustments, I can hear myself pretty well. Now, let's come to the very end and let's find the end part. Great. I'm just going to mark it out. We have a couple of ways to do the ending here. The place where I marked the song out. We have sort of like a riser the ends like tune, two, two, tune tune. So we can use this part. We can use just this very last part, which is just the last kind of sound that this music produces. We can try both. I would say that let's actually let's cut it here first, and we'll put it here. And let's just listen. What it sounds like. Follow. Mas today's three, and you'll never post another flop. If you don't like, share follow. Masdas three, and you'll sounds a little bit abrupt. So let's try to figure out. I'm just going to put another track, and I'm going to make it a little bit longer. Post. I'm going to start when the rises starts roughly around here. What if we make it a little bit shorter? Like, so and then I'm going to apply this transition so that at the end, it's not just as abrupt. Actually, we can make it a little bit shorter. Hm? Great. Okay. Let's see what we have here. Like follow Master desideFol Master dt outside the pop. Actually, I don't like the way it sounds in the end. I don't like it at all. I don't like this end. It's like it doesn't work here because we don't have any riser here at the end in terms of the visuals. So I'd like to actually get rid of this at all, put this part here in the very end. Maybe we can just use this very end part and maybe we can connect this part here as well here follow up. Master those three, and you'll never outside the pop. Master those three, and you'll never Look, Must to those three, and you'll never armor follow. Must to those three, and you'll never another Hmm. Sure, follow. Must to those three, and follow. Master is three and you'll never post another flop. Actually, I like this one a lot more now that I heard it for the second time. A lot of the times it's just experimentation and seeing if something works or not. And if it doesn't work, then just try something else. One thing I also like to do is we can apply default transition using the shortcut Shift Command D here as well, and it's going to make it a little bit smoother. Let's here share follow. Master is three and you'll never post another flop. Sure, follow. Last these three, and you'll never post another flop. The end sounds beautiful. Now, let's work in the very beginning. Let's work with what we have here. So let's mark it out here, drag it and see how long this part is. Every viral throw you've ever wor following this exact three step formula, and once you know what you see it everywhere it grabs attention. Hmm. Actually that sounds pretty good. H since it's doing it like so, there are a couple of things we can try. We can disable this one by person Shift Command E and just literally disabling this one. And let's try to just let's listen to what it does here. Every viral short you ever worse follows this exact three step formula, and once you know what you see it everywhere. Step one. The hook it grabs attention first 2 seconds. Step two, retention. Hmm. Which one sounds better? Every viral short you've ever worse followed this exact three step formula, and once you know what you see it everywhere. Step one. The hook it grabs attention the first 2 seconds. Hmm. Actually, both versions sound unbelievably good. Usually, it doesn't happen. But what we're doing here is just extending the original song. But this one, by using this one, we're mixing it because you can see it's basically exactly the same part. It's just slightly misaligned here because the intro of the video is a little bit shorter than the intro of the song. Let's listen again. Every viral short you have a voice follows this exact three step formula, and once you know we see it everywhere. Step one, the ho What if we cut it like so and do it like so enable this one? And once you know we see it everywhere. Step one. Okay, let's listen to this. Every viral short you've ever Worse followed this exact three step formula, and once you know it you'll see it everywhere. Step one, the hook. This works pretty well, and I would go into the effects. I'd select all the audio, put the lower music for voice. Evil short Ever Voice follows this. And now make it lower by Let's try 15. Every viral shortcub Ever voice follows this exact three step formula and once you know it, you'll see it everywhere. Step one, the hook. I grabs attention the first 2 seconds. Let's make it louder by five. Every viral short you've ever watched follows this exact three step formula, and once you know it, you'll see it everywhere. Step one, the hook. It grabs attention the first 2 seconds. Step two, retention, every line, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. Step three, the report that satisfying payoff or call to action that makes people like, share or follow. Master those three, and you'll never post another flop. This is really good. So for this song, usually, I told you I put it to like -15, but this one works at minus ten. We're going to keep it like this. So once again, to recap, the intro of the song we use for the intro of the video. The middle of the song we use for the middle of the video. The end of the song we use for the end of the video. The only thing we have to mix together is the cuts. We want to make sure that it sounds great. For this song, it was quite straightforward, but when it's not straightforward, just try moving it around a little bit. Try to find patterns in the song because oftentimes when the song doesn't work is when the two patterns collide, and those patterns are different. That would be a specific bit throughout the song. And then you put another bit of the same song is just a different melody already. You don't want to do that. Maybe you to start the bit half a second earlier or half a second later and then it becomes smooth and seamless. The idea behind this is just to put everything together so that it's seamless. Basically, we're using the song, but we're just making it a lot a lot shorter. That's it. That's how you do it. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, I'll seeing the next video. 10. Music & SFX Sourcing: Epidemic Sound vs Pixabay & YouTube Audio Library: Video, I'd like to walk you through the paid versus free sourcing of the music and the sound effects. There are two websites we've already looked at which is epidemicsund and pxcells.com. Now, Long Story short, epidemicsund is better simply because they are paid. Their subscription doesn't cost a lot of money, and I understand for some people, it still might be a little bit of a lot of money, so that's why I'll be covering both of those. Epidemic Sound is able to get the money to work with professional artists, to get music from them. Whereas with Pixabay, you can find great songs here and I'll show you a specific one character who does amazing. You will find just a lot of trash here. And that's the sad reality about this. In the resources section, you'll find links to both website, Epidemic sounds going to have a 30 day free trial for you to get started. Even if you're not going to use it in the future, I do recommend taking a look at it in order to get the practice in. You don't need to pay anything in advance, 30 day free trial, so there's absolutely no risk for you. When it comes to Bigby, it's this person here, some music. You'll find that his songs are absolutely next level. I used a lot of his songs and it's been great honestly. I really recommend you this music composer. And one thing to mention about pixies that some of the songs were created by humans, but a lot of them were created by AI. Without even scrolling, we have this one, which is original and this one AI, AI, AI, AI, AI AI. We have one, two, one, two, three, not AI, and one, two, three, four, five, six AI without even scrolling though AI sometimes produces good results, most of the time it's not good yet, once again, it's just putting patterns together and it doesn't have any creativity, something for you to pay attention to. We'll cover sound effects a little bit later as well, but on both websites you can do sound effects. For example, on Pixel Boy, we need to go into sound effects, which would be here on epidemic sounds going to be sound effects here. For me, I've been using Epidemic Sound for, I don't know, six plus years. At this point, I've been using that with my clients, and even though I had subscriptions to websites like art list, motion array, invito elements, the best one in terms of the music and sound effects is still Epidemic Sound because that's what they focus on. So I've mentioned like 2000 times that Epidemic Sound is super great and it truly is. If there are any specific questions about either of these websites, you can let me know. You can also find royalty free sounds and songs on YouTube. However, most of the time, you need to put their details in the description, which is an extra step and I don't like to do that. For Pixabay, if you go into, for example, if we download the song and we go into their license, you can take a look at their license here to make sure you adhere to their license as well. Epidemic Sound, you just put the channel where you'll use the song. For example, on YouTube, you put a link to the YouTube channel or to the Instagram page or to Tik Tok. Just does everything automatically. If you have any questions about these website, you can let me know. Other than that, I recommend epidemic sound. Even just get a 30 day free trial for you to test out and get some professional practice, and if not, then you can always go back to Pixabay. If you have any questions, let me know, than that, see you in the next video. 11. Micro-Project: Hook & Drop Music Edit for YouTube, Instagram & TikTok: I just want to mention that once again, in the downloadable resources section, you can find files to practice in order to cut to the beat in premiere. And in order to get exactly the same song that I used for the practice, please use the 30 day trial for Epidemic Sound. If there are any questions, let me know, I see you in the next video. 12. Congratulations!: Congratulations. If you're watching this, it means you made it halfway through the course content. And we've covered lots so congratulations you for making to this point. There's a lot more valuable content coming soon, but before we get to the next video, I want to simply ask you if you found value in this program up until this point, it takes 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback. Of course, I will immensely appreciate this and feedback will massively help future students in deciding the best program for them. So leave you feedback now, and of course, if there's anything I can help you with, let me know in the Q&A section below. You're doing great. Keep going. And without being said, let's get to the next video. 13. SFX in Premiere Pro: 5 Essential Sound-Design Recipes (Whoosh, Impact, UI...: Well, in this video, let's talk about the sound effects fundamentals. Whenever I work with sound effects, I like to play a game of associations in my head. For example, there's some sort of graphic coming onto the screen. What kind of sound does that associate with? Usually, when something moves quite fast, it's like, sort of like windy sounds like. So that would be like, Whoosh sound. You will face a lot of the sounds that exist in real life, and you will also face with a lot of sounds that don't exist in real life. Like, for example, something just appearing on the screen, what kind of sound would you use for that when it's just just instantly appearing? Well, a lot of the times, sounds like pops or some sort of switches are used, even though it doesn't exist in real life. The best way to understand this is to practice and practice as much as possible. That's what I recommend us to do here. Let's take look at this video. In the very beginning, for example, we have this very sharp and instant zoom. Every. By the way, I'm going to mute the track with the music so that we don't hear it. And we can also mute the sound where I'm speaking. In the very beginning, we have this very fast Zoom. With fast Zooms, we usually use some sort of swooshes. Let's search for swoosh on epidemic sound, and let's go into sound effects. Swoosh. Okay. This is pretty good. I'm going to press and download and just download it. And then we're just going to track and drop it here. And let's listen whichever works best. I like the second one. It's quite fast. I'm just going to mark it out and then drag it here, so maybe make it a little bit shorter because we have swoosh from the very beginning, start fast and end here. This is great. Then when we have these three things coming onto the screen, once again, here we would use a swoosh. Some people could probably use pops and sometimes it does work for this one. I just because it's like a long movement, swoosh would be best. Let's try to use another maybe like this one. Let's find this part where it comes onto the screen and that's going to be the very beginning. We can see the first one. Let's see. Let's test how it sounds. Okay, pretty good. I'm going to copy it by pressing option and pressing down and move it a little bit to the right, two frames to the right. One, two, and then we have the third one up here. I'm just going to put it even lower. Move it a little bit to the right. Let's here. Let's move it a little bit to the start because if I feel like it's a little bit too slow, one, three, maybe a little bit more. So I'm just going to select everything but shift and move it to the left. Let's decrease the loudness by ten. For this one, another very important one which is used quite often is UI sounds. So we can go into Editing sound, search for UI I quite like this sound. You can see the sound, it doesn't make sense for what we have appearing on the screen, but let's give it a try. Let's put it in and let's see where it starts appearing here. Quite like the fact that it has a couple of stop points. It's not just one long swoosh tuk tuk and because we get that works as if we have different letters appearing one by one, so it's pretty good. For this one, we can also use the UI sound, but let's try to find another one. Maybe this one. Let's drag and drop it. We can drag and drop it writing timeline and see what it sounds like. Hmm. Pretty good as well. I like it. So you can see, there's no sort of sound for the text appearing, right? But we're just using our creativity in order to put it in. Let's find another one, last one. Maybe we can use this one. Let's give it a try. Maybe we need to cut it a little bit, because it's quite long. Let's cut it maybe soil. This is pretty good as well. Then here we already have a sound effect, which is swoosh. This one comes automatically with this transition and I'm going to show you in the next video how to get that setup for you as well. Now, let's listen to everything with sound effects. And then one thing here as well, for this transition, you can see we have this transition which is going down. And for this transition, we can actually use another swoosh and we can actually just go ahead and copy this wooh. I'm going to dragon drop it and press Option and going to just make a copy it here. Then why don't I put it roughly so Okay. Now we just need to make it a little bit quieter. This one and this one in the beginning. Let's put it to minus ten. And this one the sound effect quieter as well. So let's put these to minus five. What about this one? Let's try this one minus five, as well. Maybe this one's a little bit too quiet. Let's make it louder by three. Let's enable everything and listen to everything. Every viral short you've ever voiced follows this exact three step formula, and once you know it, you'll see it everywhere. Step one, the hook. I grabs attention in the first 2 seconds. Step two, retention, every line, cut or visual keeps the viewer watching just a little bit longer. In step three, the report that satisfying payoff or call to action that makes people like, share or follow. Master those three, and you'll never post another flop. Perfect, You can hear it in the background. It's subtle. Doesn't compete with my voice or with music, but it adds that little bit just improvement to the video, which makes it a lot more expensive and a lot more pleasant to watch. Now, some of the sounds that are used quite often, for example, pops, we can search for pop. These sounds are used quite often. Then we can search for impact. It's going to be a hit. Something like this. You will also get access to 38 of my most used sound effects. I've gathered this library of sound effects over the years of editing videos, so it's going to be super useful. You have things like bushes, beeps, dinks. What is this dramatic rise, errors, film projector, and a lot more stuff you're welcome to use. It's going to be in the downloadable resources section. So go ahead and access that. One of my favorite ones by the way, is this ratchet. So if we zoom in here, especially in the end, Oh, I love this sound. If it's number is changing rapidly or is shot after shot, this can be used very well. So this is just one of my favorites. Then there's Sci Fi sounds, which is also good. Go ahead and explore this. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, I'll see you in the next. 14. Instant SFX with Free Extensions: Premiere Composer Walkthrough: Video, I'd like to introduce you to Premiere Composer, which is an extension to Premiere Pro into after effects. If you go to this website, which is going to be in the downloadable resource section and you go into products for Premiere Pro, premiere composer, this is the one, you don't only get a lot of the sound effects, but you also get a lot of the other stuff. I think this is going to be super useful for you. Now, let me show you what do you get. By the way, it's absolutely for free. If you want, you can get a paid version, you're going to get more, but honestly with the free version, you get more than enough. This is premiere composer. You get a lot of the sounds. First of all, you get text boxes, text breezes, but you are welcome to explore that. We are going to focus on the sounds. Here's what you get. You get approaches, buzzes, beeps, plus booms, click click drum pop, slide, swoosh tap knock transition. One of the great things about this, you can also search and why don't I have swooshes in the fax folder is because I have swooshes here. If I search for swoosh, you have five different swooshes and in order to use it, all I have to do is to, for example, click. It's going to preview, and then I have to press and add and it's going to add it. That's it. Simple as that. If I want to delete, just press delete and press on Commandt and going to delete it. Super super useful. I really recommend you to explore this. I don't use all the sounds all time. Swooshes probably the most used ones. Transitions are also pretty good, but it's also kind of swooshes. Pops is pretty good here as well. So if I search for a Pop, super super well. And yeah, really recommend you to use it. Super Great is absolutely for free. I have no affiliation with them, so go ahead and test it out for yourself. Let me know if it's good or not. Let me know if you have any questions. If you don't, then I'll see you in the next video. See you. 15. Practice Sound Design in Premiere Pro: Timing, Layering: That you've seen me work the sound effects and now that you have access to put me a composer, go ahead and give it a practice. You don't necessarily have to copy me sound to sound. The most important thing is for you to practice. If you want to use another sound, go ahead and do that. If you're a little bit hesitant, go ahead and just copy me exactly. If you have any questions, let me know and that's in the next video. 16. Hormozi-Style Content Piece Explained: Structure, Beats & Audio Choices: Video, we're going to take a look at $100 million leads by Alex Ramses specifically on what the content piece is. A content piece consists of hook, retain reward, or hook value reward or hook retain CtA. There are many versions of this, but it's like you hook people in, people watch the video, and then you reward them with something in the variant or you give CtA at the variand. Every short form content is a piece of content which has these three parts. A very important thing is that what is a long form content? Will long form content is just a lot of the content pieces together. You've seen me do sound design for a short from content and the way you do sound design for long term content is exactly the same. You just have to do it many times. If we take a look at this, for example, we can see here, long equals more content units. So we have short from content which is hook retain reward and long term content is just a lot of these pieces put together. A content unit is a shorten content. And the long from video consists of just like five, ten, hundred of these small content pieces. You work exactly the same long from video. You just do it many times. Remember that the way we worked on the short from video is the beginning of the video was the beginning of the song. The middle of the video was the middle of the song, and the end of the video was the end of the song. So we just have to do it many times. If you were looking for a secret formula, that's a secret formula. If you have any questions, let me know and that's in the next video. 17. Short-Form Video Build: Voice Clarity, Music Edit & SFX Polish in Premiere Pro: This video will focus on the sound design for a short film video from the very beginning to the very end. We'll do the audio, we'll do the sound effect, we'll do the music, everything. So here's the video that we have, and it's already in edited video. And let me quickly show you what this video looks like. Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve? Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap gut. Premiere. Premiere Pro or After Effects. Mm. Premiere. Premiere Pro or blender. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas? Premiere. Premiere Pro or I movie? Premier. Okay, so this video follows a format that a video for my clients got 3.7 million views. These type of videos when there's a choice, they get millis and millions of views very popular right now. So that's why I'm following this format as well. Specifically, what I did here to walk you through in terms of the audio. So we actually have my lady ask me in the background these questions. So she gives it to me, but then it's a lot better to use the voice overlay that was generated by 11 labs. And so this is what I use here. The green one is the AI generated voice from 11 labs, and the orange one is me. By the way, if you want to learn how to create viral videos just like this one, you can go ahead and click on my profile. I have a number of courses that teach that, so just go ahead and learn it. Specifically, I recommend starting with how to MastersofFm video editing in Premiere Pro. And then after that, you can go into Master Short from video editing, Premiere Pro and after effects, and then after effects. And there are three courses like this. Just go ahead and click on my Pfund. You'll be able to find it easily. This part at the bottom. So if I enable just this one, if I enable just the solo track, you will hear this just, like, a little bit of the sound in the background. And the reason for this is because my voice, it has a little bit of this background noise. But then the AI generated one is crystal clear. And so there is a big difference between those two. It's sort of like when you're photoshopping something, you want things to look similar. You want to overlay some sort of effect on top so that both images look the same. And I kind of use the same approach here where we have two audios, but then both audios will have the sort of, like, just a slight noise in the background, which just makes it a bit more human and it's not as abrupt and contrast when we switch between AI and myself. So I'm not going to touch this. You can say as it is, but I'm going to select all the audio. I'm going to click on Automatch. I'm going to select again, pressing G, five, pressing K. Okay, P. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap gout. Premiere. Premiere Pro or after Effex? Press commands to disable the audio game by five. The reason for that is because when we add it, for example, here, we have a lot of noise in the background. Like, listen, the contrast the difference here when it comes from here to here. Premier Pro or cap gout. Premiere. So that's a little bit too much. I want to avoid that, so I'm going to press and Kamanjt. It's still quite loud and people can still hear it. It's just not going to be like at the very top. Now, I will also go into audio, select everything. And for AudioTrack number one, I'm going to add a hard limiter, which is going to be here, and I'm going to add parametric equalizer. So for hard limitter, right click minus three, parametric Q vocal enhancer. Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve? Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap Got. Sounds very good. This is the first part done. We'll come back to the vertical workspace. Now, we need to work in the sound effects. And the only sound effects really that we need to use here, well, first of all, here in the very beginning when we have this abrupt Zoom, and then we need one for the checkmark. And technically, we can animate, you know, everything that's moving on and out of the screen with swooshes. But we'll see how it goes. So first of all, I want to find the checkmark. And for that, I'm going to go once again to Epidemic Sound and let's search for Chuck Mark. Sun. What did I use here with clients? Ali or Bangkok. Bangkok. Okay, so that's some sort of YUI sound that I use with the client. Let's see if we can find something similar here. YUI success. Actually, might be this one. Let's double check. Bangkok or Cheng Mai. Cheng Mai. Yeah, I think it's exactly the same one, this one. So because the sound worked, why don't we just go ahead and download it and then see if it works here as well. So I'm just going to put it in. I'm going to select it. And whenever we have the check mark appearing on the screen, we are going to have this sound as well. Premiere, press G and put it -15 premiere. And I'm going to drag it with option and it's just going to duplicate it. Premiere. Potentially, we need to move it slightly because I think, like, it's just a little bit too fast. Premiere. Because you can see that we have the sound start before I actually start saying the word premiere. So I'm just going to select this and move it a little bit to the right. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap Got. Premier. Premiere. Here as well. It's like, too early. Hm. Interesting steward here as well. Premiere. Premiere Pro or blender. Mm. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas? Premiere. Premiere Pro or I movie? Premiere. Yeah, let's double check it again. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap cut. Premiere. Premiere Pro or After Effects. Mm. Premiere. Premiere Pro or blender. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas? Premiere. Premiere Pro or I movie? Premiere. Okay, this is really good. By the way, the reason why I always like premiere out of all of these is because even though I absolutely love like blender and after effects, I teach both of those, so hard to put everything together in blender. I mean, I think there's an editor, but I never used it because it's just a little bit too complicated. In after effects, you can work with audio. And premiere with latest updates that's about to be launched, like it is absolutely next level. It will be just as good as after effects. Not in terms of the motion graphics, but in terms of, like, for example, Roto brushing, which is going to be done with AI, and it's going to be unbelievably good. And so that's why I choose premiere just because more versatile. Okay, so let's do a swoosh in the very beginning. Composers swoosh. The fast swoosh. Premiere. Make it minus ten, just a little bit quieter. Premiere Pro or DavinciRsolve. And now let's search for music. Let's think what kind of music can work here. And actually, we can ask SAGPT about this. Hey, GPT, I'm doing a short form video comparison where I compare Premiere Pro with DavinciFinal cut after effects, blender, things like that. What kind of background song can we use here? Not background sound, but background music, can we use? Like, what's the genre or what can we search for on Epidemic Sound in order to find it? Electronic bit. Yeah, I think that could work great. Okay, so we have two very good candidates. We have the first one, the second one, which is just bits, but different bits. This one is a little bit slower. This one is a little bit faster, and you can also see the BPM bits per minute. So we can go and try the first one. If it doesn't work, we can try the second one. Both are pretty good. There's no big difference between them, so let's just give it a try. So I'll put it in. Mm hm. So roughly, we have the beat here, so I'm just going to drag and drop it. And I'm going to start when we have the first check mark, so I'm going to start the beat here. Let's see. Premiere Pro, What Premiere. Beat is a little bit too fast. Starts a little bit fast, so I'll just move it a little bit further. Pre me a prop. Pre me a pro or PP Let's try to download the second one and see if we feel like the second one is going to be a little bit better. So I'll do exactly the same thing. Find the beat roughly here, I believe it was. Okay, so literally just put it in the same place around here. So we'll mute this track with the one that has the song, and let's give it a try. Premiere Pro or final cut, pro. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Canada. Premier. Premiere Pro or Afro Okay. I can tell right away, this one is a little bit too fast, so we'll stick with this one. I'll go to the effects. I will add the lower music for voice, which is good to be here. Then Pres g minus ten. And let's see. Mm. Premiere. Minus ten, as well, T -20. Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Cap cut. Premiere. Premiere Pro or after effect? I want to decrease it even further because it's a little bit too loud. Mm. Premiere. Premiere Pro or blender. Mm Premiere. Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas? Premiere. Premiere Pro or I movie? Premiere. I think that's it. Let's try to put the swooshes in as well. We need a little bit longer swooshes. Maybe let's try this one. Or DaVinci Air Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Let's try to put it hears well when we have Premiere appearing. Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Set it with the other ones. Here. Premiere Pro or final? Pro or final cut Pro. Premiere Pro or final cut P. Premiere. Premiere Pro or cap cut. Put it roughly in the middle. So I'll just copy it. I'll get it until the middle, so I'll cut until the middle and then I'll just copy it and then put this one back in. But then the next time I paste it, I'll be able to just put it in the middle somewhere like so. I'll do the same for the other ones. Pro or after affix. This one is good. Let's search for blender one. Put it here. Or, what do we not do? We did not do the end of the song. I'll just fine the very last bit. I think the very last bit is going to work well. Maybe not even the bit. Maybe like around here. Yes, this part's going to be very good. So I'm going to select it, go to the Vx control copy the simple parmgQPs it here, G -25, and make it a little bit higher and put it like so, and let's listen to the solo. Something is not working here. Let's see. Maybe, let's see, like so. Yes, this is going to be working well. Guys listened with everything else. Air Pro or eye movie. Premiere. Premiere Pro or DavinciRsolve? Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Make this one quieter by ten, or the swooshes Premiere Pro or DavinciRsolve. Premiere. Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Here. By the way, there's no such thing as perfect video. Sometimes I will forget things. Sometimes, you know, I will not put something on purpose, and then the audience will notice that because oftentimes you might think that people notice too many things, they'll notice that something's missing or something is not enough or not good enough, but oftentimes, like, people don't notice anything. I think there's a stat that people don't notice 60% of your imperfections, the ones that you notice. So if you notice 100%, people will notice only 40% of your imperfections. So less than half of what you notice. Anyway, for this video, I'd like to export this video, and that's it. I think this video is good to go. So we have this Wush in the very beginning. We have swoosh here for every movement. We have the Check Mark premiere. Nothing is competing with the background voice. The background music is good. The voices are optimized. I mean, everything is great, so I like to keep it this way. So if you have any questions, let me know. Other than that, see you in the next video. 18. Long-Form Segment (3–6 min): Pacing, Music Arcs & Consistent Dialogue: This video, we'll do sound design for a long form YouTube video. Let's jump in so that it is a little bit easier for you to understand everything that's happening in the screen. Let's take a look at the audio waveforms. I mean, the visual waveforms are all kinds of different colors. It's just a little bit easier for me to organize this way. But if we take a look at the bottom here, we'll notice certain patterns. So we have one color here, and this purple color is the intro color. We have intro for the first 23 seconds, and then we have content pieces. We have the blue one. The blue one and the blue one, oops, and then we have two orange ones. So this one and this one. These are all different content pieces. Basically, this video is about five different after effects plugins that are basically the best plug ins that exist. And each of the plugin is like a content piece. And when we put it together, we get long from content piece. Something we discussed with you a couple of videos ago. Basically, we'll have to do everything very similar to what we did in the past, repeat it five times or in this case, six times because we're going to have in so for this video, once again, let's do it very quickly. Let's select the audio. Go to the audio workspace. We are going to automatch it person G, person five, and then here we will click and do hard limiter, and we'll do parameter kickser, Right click, and right click. So it's as fast we'll go into the editing workspace. We'll begin by working on the music, and then we'll do the sound effect sound effects with long from video, especially with this one when just tutorial. It requires medival sound effects, which we'll focus on once again a little bit later. But now let's focus on the music. So I'll go onto the music tab. I'll scroll down, and I will go for tutorial. So we have creative skills, educational software tutorial. This is the software tutorial. So let's open this one in a new tab and see what they have here. I like the song, so I'm going to download it, and we need five different songs to get this video done. Kind of like this one as well, so let's download it, see if it works. If not, we can always come back and find something else. Don't like this one. One thing I like about Empatican sounds, you can click on, for example, the song, and it's going to give you similar tracks, so we can search it, like, so Or we can go ahead and click on the artist, like, for example, here, and it's going to give us the artist, then we can take a look at the artist that produced it. But I'd like to go back to the very beginning. This is pretty good. And let's find one for the intro as well. This kind of style can work for the intro as well. Pretty good. So let's try to find it. For the intro, I'd like to choose something a little bit more dynamic can be as dynamic as some of the other songs, but I don't want it to be, like, slow and sleepy. I want to be active and energized. Kind of like this one. I don't know why. It doesn't have a beginning. It doesn't have a proper end, but I kind of like it. So let's give it a try. So this is the 80s. Just downloaded six of the songs. This is the 80s, so I'm just going to drag and drop it here. Actually, I can try and organize this a little bit better so that we have all of our songs here. This is going to be the one for the intro. Let's find the part when this song begins. So for the intro, I mean, we can definitely start with the intro with just a bit, so we'll put it in, like, and let's see what we have. These five aftereffect plugins will completely change the way you edit them anyway. Over the years, I've tested dozens of plugins, but only a handful tree stuck. I kind of like the melody, and I want to find the melody a little bit later, maybe. Okay, I like this part, so I'd like to use it somewhere. This pipe aftereffect blackness will completely change the way you edit and animate. Over the years, editing animate. Over the years, just edit and I. Over the years, I've tested dozens of plug ins, but only a handful trees stop the ones that save hours, repetitive tasks, and make motion design actually fun. In this video, I'll show you the tools that became part of my everyday workflow and ones that get spit up first and stick around because last one is the custom tool I guilt to solve a post. Well plugin. And let's find a part at the very end. Maybe around here. Pick around because last one is the custom tool I build to solve up to effects. Problem. Plug in number one. Let's pick ups and stick around because last one. Okay, so a couple of things. First of all, let's use the lower music for voice so that we can hear it a little bit better. Mute the mute my voice so that we can hear the music only. Extend this one a little bit. Hmm. Okay, let's work in the intro. Maybe we can do it, like, so at this point, I'm just going to move things around because I'm not sure what's going to work well and what's not going to work well. So I'll just move things around. Okay, this one worked flawlessly here, like, so Perfect. Now, let's just do the beginning. Very good. However, you saw me just moving things around. Like, I don't know what's going to work exactly 100% all the time. I'm just moving things around trying to make it work, trying to make it in a way that it just it sounds like it's flowing. Like it's not abrupt. Now let's work on the end. Basically, what I'll try to do at the end is find the pattern of the middle song, and then I'll try to find where the pattern ends and there I'll try to insert the end part there. Okay, so here is where it ends. Let's listen to it. Lo so. Let's try to do it like so. Because they have lots of small beats here closer together, I'll try to put this bit here as well so that it's very close. Actually, the intro turned out to be pretty good, especially here in the very beginning. For the end part, at this point, my hearing got a little bit blurry. It's not sharp anymore because I listen to the song so many times, so I'll just keep it for a little bit. I'll add the other songs, and I'll try to put it together, and then after that, I'll see how it goes. So I'm just going to put the five songs that we added. Right away, I'm going for the part when the bit starts. And I will put it right after, you know, when you get listicles, and you get, like, number one, number two, number three, number four and number five, like presentation of the title screen is called. So right after the title screen, I will put the bit basically on the cut. And then we just need to find the end part. We don't necessarily have to use the very end part. We can use, for example, like, the end here when it's just going down. Or we can try to use the very end. Yeah, let's try to go to the very end. Okay. Just try to fit it around here. Let's try to find a pattern of this song. Okay, so here I hear it right away. The song ends here, and so when I put this one together, it should work pretty good. I'm going to give it a default transition. Let's see. Mm, pretty good. And I'm going to lower it, like so. Then I'll use another song. Once again, going for the bed right away, putting the bit here. Let's see. I'll put another track because I want it to overlap a little bit so that there's no complete silence at all times. I think we need to make this one just a little bit faster. Like one frame, move it a little bit. Pretty good. And then let's find the end. We can use it here. So here, we'll put this part here. Oh, actually, wait, wait. This is not the end. This is going to be the end. Because this is the end part, kind of the end, not the end of the song, but the end of this sequence, let's call it. We can actually keep it. Like, so, we don't necessarily have to search for this end, which is the one we were going to use anyway. It comes from the song from the original song, we don't have to mix it. So I would always prefer to keep it rather than to try to mix it somehow a little bit better because this one is a lot a lot better than me trying to mix it. So I'll just lower this one down at the very end, like so. We'll use the other one. Great. We have done a very good job. So we have the intro. We have the five different songs, intro five songs. Now we just need to add the sound effects in the very beginning. So I'm going to disable the song and add the sound effects. Now for the sound effects, we have a couple of arrows here on the screen, and then we have pop ups. For the arrows, we can use, if we go into the Sex folder. We can use the marker. We have marker. Which can work for arrows as well as if somebody is drawing the arrows. Let's see where the movement stops for the arrows here. So we need this very end part to be here. So let's see. Yes, so may make it just a little bit quieter in the very beginning so that it's not abrupt. Great. Now for the pop ups, we can try and search for the word pop up in the premiere composer for the pop sound. This one's good. Let's see. Put it on a different level. Surely, we can keep it on the same level. The litter from here. Here, here and here, let's see. Great. So we have pop ups for every single number that appears, and then for every single arrow, we have this marker sound. Let's see if there's anything else. For this, I want this to keep minimalistic and not use any sounds here. This is just a personal choice, but, of course, we can add a little bit of the sound here, something like we used in the past, like, using the UI sounds, which is going to work pretty well here. Actually, I'm not sure if there's anything else we'll need in terms of the sounds. We can definitely add, the keyboard sounds and some sort of movement sounds, especially for these parts. Kind of a personal choice, a lot of the times. But to be honest, I'll say that the more sound effects you use, usually the better, it's better to add a little bit more than not enough. Because if you take look at, for example, Misty Beast videos, those videos are full and full and full of some sort of action. Movement sounds, there's never a quiet point. It's almost like pop up, pop up. It's a very similar story here. Actually, for these intros, let's add a sound here. We have some text coming onto the screen. We have text coming here and here. We can add sound for this text, and actually quite like the sound that we used in one of the previous videos. I think it was this one. Okay, let's give this one a try and see if it's going to work well. Mmm. I think the sound works very well here. So I'm going to paste it, paste it in here. Make it a little bit higher. Put it here. Okay, let's do exactly the same thing for everything else. And the last one as well. Now, in terms of the loudness, we need to work on the loudness of the music and the sound effects. So let's see for the first of all, let's lower the music by at least ten. These five after effects plugins will Too loud, right away, minus ten, as well. Completely change the way you edit and animate. Over the years, I've tested dozens of plugins, but only a handful truly stock. The ones that save hours, repetitive tasks, and make motion design actually fun again. In this video, I'll show you the tools that became part of my everyday workflow and the ones that can speed up yours too. And stick around because last one is the custom tool I build to solve after effects most annoying problem. The pop ups. We can make it at minus ten. These aftereffect plugins will complete and make the marker a little bit quieter by -15. These five after effects plugins will completely change the way you edit and animate. Over the years, I've tested dozens of plugins. Now, we'll say that my voice sounds pretty bad here, and it was my problem because I did not record it properly. That's also kind of a big lesson that you cannot always revive some of the sounds that you create. And unfortunately, that's the reality. And I record it in bad quality, and I cannot really revive the audio, but I can still do my best not to try to make it the best it can be. My problem. Plug in number one. Okay, for all of these sounds or songs, let's put it to -15 and see if it competes. Give in Paris quick. Wait for quick. For reference, what? Then just match it to your brand usage and reduces. Definitely need to reduce it by I don't remember what we reduced it for and doesn't show me, but let's reduce it by -20 now. Here's or give in Paris quickly. Still a little bit too loud. Let's do minus five extra. So it's a total of -25 You installed the extension cleaner and great for quick iterations. Instead of manually and after effect users. Perfect. This video is ready in terms of the sound effects. This video is quite short, so under 4 minutes, but it's good. We have quite a lot of changes in terms of the music. We have six different songs. We have a number of sound effects and sound effects here in the middle. Lots of visual stuff, but the visuals, if you want to learn how to work with the visuals, go ahead and click on my profile. You'll be able to get some of the other courses there. This video is done. If you have any specific questions, let me know. Add than that, see you in the next video. 19. Micro-Project: Final Deliverables — Short + Long Form Content: That you've voted me do sound design for two videos, it's time for you to practice. Go ahead and choose whichever project works best for you, either short term content or long form content. Go and download necessary files in the resources section. If you have any questions, let me know. Other than that. See you in the next video. 20. Last Step!: Congratulations. You are nearly 100% done with sound design course. There are just two small steps in today. First, take action. As Kafia said, a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. So if you haven't already, take your first step by editing your first video. All the best information in the world means nothing if you don't act on it, and even small steps lead to massive outcomes. Lastly, if you found value in this program, I would really appreciate if you could take 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback. I will be immensely grateful to you and your feedback will massively help future students in deciding the best m. Although this course is complete, your journey has just begun. I'm excited to see you edit online, so be sure to keep me and fellow students posted. Remember, I'm here for your success. So if there's anything I can help you with, please let me know in the Q&A section below. 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