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Improve Your Audio with Editing

Lesson 44 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

Improve Your Audio with Editing

Lesson 44 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

44. Improve Your Audio with Editing

Next Lesson: Find and Add Music

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1 Introduction

1

Welcome to the Class

02:12
2

What Makes a Great Video

03:17
3

What Type of Video Should You Make

02:47

Chapter 2: Pre-production

4

Come up with a Great Video Ideas

05:05
5

Plan Your Video

03:30
6

The Pre-production Checklist

04:04

Chapter 3 Equipment - Our Suggestions for Getting Started

7

Does Equipment Matter

01:34
8

Our Recommended Cameras

06:00
9

Our Recommended Audio Equipment

04:37
10

Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

01:47
11

Our Recommended Editing Equipment

02:11
12

Our Recommended Drone Equipment

05:35
13

Quiz: Chapter 3

Chapter 4:Cinematography Basics

14

Exposing Your Shots

05:25
15

Compose Your Shots

04:25
16

Filming Yourself

01:09
17

Getting the Right Shot

03:43
18

Choose a Background

02:32
19

My Office Video Setup

02:54
20

Quiz: Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Tips for Shooting with Different Cameras

21

Exposing with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

06:31
22

Focus with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

02:35
23

Stabilize Your Shots

02:57
24

Know Your Lenses

03:18
25

Shoot with Your Smartphone

05:10
26

Shoot with Your Webcam

05:49
27

Record Great Screencast Videos

04:20
28

Tips for Better Drone Shots

04:06
29

Types of Drone Shots

01:43
30

Quiz: Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Audio Recording and Microphones

31

Choose the Right Microphone for Your Video

03:14
32

Record Better Audio in Any Environment

01:27
33

How to Use a Lavalier Microphone

02:47
34

How to Use a Shotgun Microphone

00:55
35

How to Record Audio with Your Computer

01:27
36

Quiz: Chapter 6

Chapter 7: Video Lighting

37

Why We Light

01:03
38

Use Natural Light

04:14
39

The 3-point Video Lighting Setup

07:26
40

Quiz: Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Editing Better Videos

41

Intro to Editing

02:15
42

The Post-production Process

07:50
43

Craft a Story with Editing

05:21
44

Improve Your Audio with Editing

06:34
45

Find and Add Music

05:12
46

Design Clean and Professional Titles

03:15
47

Increase Video Engagement with Calls to Action

01:29
48

Quiz: Chapter 8

Chapter 9: Get More Views - Publishing Your Video Online

49

Export the Best Quality Video for Online

02:54
50

Tips for Posting Online

05:28
51

Grow Your Youtube Channel

04:41
52

Quiz: Chapter 9

Chapter 10: Case Studies: Real-world Filmmaking

53

Case Study - Corporate Promo Videos with Ghirardelli Chocolate

08:54
54

Case Study - Event Videography with Major Lazer

08:39
55

Case Study - Documentary Films with Phil

14:24
56

Case Study - Shooting By Yourself

15:32
57

Case Study - Wedding Videography

08:37
58

Case Study - Phil's Livestream Setup

04:23

Chapter 11: Conclusion

59

Thank You

00:59

Final Quiz

60

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Improve Your Audio with Editing

in this video, I'll give you some best practices for making your audio sound. The best that it can be. The first thing is to make sure that all the audio is at a proper level, especially when you're filming with multiple people here in this project that I'm editing, this is totally meta. But the project that I'm editing right now is this course we have these different scenes with me talking with SAm, talking with Will talking and in different environments. I'm in Premiere Pro now, this is going to be different for you if you're not using Premiere Pro, but you can typically see the audio levels in some sort of graphical form. I can use my audio track mixer up here or see over here on the right hand side, if you're exporting for theatrical release or television, they might have specific levels that they want you to be hitting. But for us we just want it to be even and to make sure that it's as loud as possible without getting distorted. So it sounds good on any device. So as I go through...

here, I can just make sure that the levels are bouncing around the same level for all of us in all of our takes. And then if they're not, there are many different ways that I could actually increase the volume for each clip in premiere Pro, you can actually just click up and down this level meter right here that increases it and you see that it increases down here, it will say a number than dB this is decibels, this is the audio scale that most professionals use in terms of audio levels. The next thing is to make sure that if you have music, it's not over competing with your other dialogue or whatever your other audio is. One rule of thumb that I have is to have the music 10 to 15 decibels below the average of your dialog. And in the audio track mixer on premiere Pro, you can tell that. So here on the top left, you can see track one is my dialogue, track two is the music. And if I play through this track one, you can see it bouncing around negative five, negative six. So between negative .5 and - or so is the average at the same time, the music is around negative 16. So about 10 to 15 decibels below. Now, this is just a rule of thumb and it's going to sound different for different types of songs, some songs with more percussion, it sometimes has to be a little bit lower. I don't like using music that has singing in it because that really competes with the vocals of my dialogs, whether it's a narrative, documentary, an interview or an online course. If you're not using premiere pro and you don't have all of these options for seeing the different levels. Just monitor both on your computer with headphones and without headphones with the sound up loud. So you can really tell if the music is too high or too low. My next tip is to use music to change the tone of a scene or to use multiple songs in a longer video in some of the videos. In this course we've actually not had music Play throughout the entire video because we feel that it would just be too repetitive and kind of distracting if the music lasted too long. In other videos that are sort of the medium length around 2- minutes. We've included multiple songs and what we've tried to do is break up the songs so they match different scenes or different tips. So for example in this lesson that was on screen recording videos we have multiple tips. We have tip one tip to tip three and for each tip we chose a different song to play using music properly. Can really make or break a film. It will also help hide some imperfections in your audio like eco. In this lesson we shot outside and there was a little bit of noise in the background. In one way that you can remove background noise, whether it's outside or inside is by cutting out high and low frequencies basically all sound has a different frequency range. Higher sounds are higher frequencies and lower sounds are lower frequencies. A lot of time, background noise such as freeways rumbling in the background or wind wishing away in the background. You can get rid of some of that noise by cutting out the really high frequencies or the really low frequencies. So in premiere Pro you have filters like the high pass or the low pass filter and you can just find this in the effects bin. You might have something similar in another program. You can apply these to your clip or even in premiere to an entire track and then you can adjust the cut off. So for high pass, what this will do is if we set this to 150 hertz, that's the level of the frequency. It's going to cut off everything below that and it's going to let pass through everything higher than that. That's why it's called High pass. So this is going to be good for getting rid of some of the low audio. You gotta be careful though because depending on who's speaking and how their voices, you don't want to cut out too much of the frequency in their voice. And so for men generally who have lower voices, maybe I'll only cut out the bottom 100 At the same time. Let's do a low pass. So the low pass is going to be the same thing but on the opposite end. So it's going to pass through frequencies lower than whatever we set it to. Typically I start around 5500 or 6000 and see how it sounds. Now. This was in premiere Pro if you can in your own video editing application, try to do something similar to cut out the high and low frequencies and get rid of some of that background noise. Some editing applications will have other audio effects that will help remove any background noise. In premiere Pro we have the D. S. Or the D. Cracker, the D. Clicker and the D Hummer. These are all things you can play around with to remove different types of sounds you won't want in your film, cleaning up bad audio in post production is one of the hardest things to do As a beginner. It really takes a professional, who knows what they're doing and professional equipment to do it, right? So making sure that you have recorded clean, crisp, great sounding audio on set is so important. But I'm sure that you can use some of these tips that I've given you to make your audio sound even better.

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