Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
Lesson 7 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
Lesson 7 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete GuideAbba Shapiro
Lesson Info
7. Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
In this lesson, the instructor demonstrates how to add music and voiceover to a video in Adobe Premiere Pro. He explains how to select the right music and adjust its volume, as well as how to bring in a voiceover and enhance its quality using filters. The instructor also discusses how to organize the audio tracks in the timeline and make edits to create a dynamic video.
Q&A:
How do you load music into the source monitor in Adobe Premiere Pro?
To load music into the source monitor, double click on the musical cut in the music folder.
How can you trim a music clip in Premiere Pro?
You can trim a music clip by grabbing the end and dragging it to the desired length.
How can you adjust the volume of music and voiceover in Premiere Pro?
You can adjust the volume by using the volume line and sliders in the timeline, or by using the gain control in the effects panel.
What is the purpose of the vocal enhancer effect in Premiere Pro?
The vocal enhancer effect is used to enhance the sound of a voiceover. It provides presets for different voice types and can be customized further if needed.
How can you create more space in the timeline to add video footage?
You can delete unnecessary portions of the music clip and stretch out the remaining part to create more space for video footage.
Lessons
Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview
07:25 2Understanding Editing: Overview
25:25 3Understanding Editing: Video Examples
25:07 4Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow
16:38 5Tour The Interface: Project Panel
12:28 6Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot
07:18 7Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
10:31 8Tour The Interface: Video Tracks
05:26Tour The Interface: Edit Markers
08:46 10Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning
21:46 11Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media
25:01 12Building a Rough Cut: The Edit
30:50 13Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points
13:43 14Refining Your Edit: Preparation
10:29 15Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts
25:19 16Refining Your Edit: Using Markers
16:31 17Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts
15:57 18Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit
05:04 19Working with Audio: Overview
17:43 20Working with Audio: Levels
13:36 21Working with Audio: Music
10:00 22Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing
14:50 23Transitions: Overview
13:44 24Transitions: Effect Controls
09:31 25Filters & Effects: Overview
18:05 26Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters
22:18 27Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview
09:40 28Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images
26:56 29Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture
10:57 30Motion & Animation: Motion Effects
17:08 31Titling & Graphics: Overview
27:11 32Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools
11:03 33Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects
08:01 34Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop
12:17 35Speed Changes: Overview
21:12 36Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds
06:23 37Color Correction: Overview
07:39 38Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes
11:32 39Color Correction: Contrast
21:37 40Color Correction: Advanced Tools
15:12 41Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip
07:45 42Finishing: Prepping for Output
14:53 43Finishing: QC Edit Points
24:56 44Sharing & Exporting: Overview
29:05 45Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality
24:46 46Ingesting Media:
28:39 47Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing
31:15 48Media Management & Archiving
26:10 49Multi-Camera Editing: Overview
14:26 50Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence
20:04 51Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras
15:31 52Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing
12:37 53Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies
18:04 54Creating Timelapses: Editing Images
14:21 55Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies
18:47 56Creating Timelapses: Animation
05:58 57Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline
22:36 58Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions
07:57 59Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts
12:00 60Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks
21:15 61Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices
31:55 62Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story
23:50 63Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer
17:59 64Special Tools: Morph Cut
06:56 65Special Tools: Green Screen
20:16Lesson Info
Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over
What I really wanna do is I wanna cut this piece to music because that's gonna be the rhythm of the story. I wanna get a rhythm going there, and I'm gonna use the music, and I'm also gonna use a little bit of that audio file of Kenner describing the events that are happening. So, let's go over to our source area. I'm gonna zoom in so you can see it a little bit better. And I have a folder called music. And if I double clicked on any of these musical cuts, I can load them into my source monitor. And there's a wave form. I can zoom in, you can see this looks like a wave form. You've probably seen them someplace before. And I can hit play by the space bar. (music starts playing) And usually when I listen to music, sometimes I'm very impatient. I'll jump through it to see where it goes. (music resumes playing) So, this is an okay piece of music. It definitely has a cutting rhythm. You have the snapping, I can see the beats, but let me just listen to something else. I'll tell ya, selecting ...
music is a real challenge cause it's like, it has to feel right. And the music that I'm going to choose, or that you choose, is gonna create the mood for your entire piece. So, already I know I want something fairly fast cut. I want it to look like it's a very dynamic event. So I do like this faster paced or more music with more beats. Let's listen to this one. (music starts playing) Starts off nice and slow, but there's still some rhythm. I like this. This is a little more emotional but I still have something that I can cut to it, I still have that rhythm. So I wanna use this. I'm gonna go ahead and bring this into my timeline. We can use keyboard shortcuts but for right now since we're fast and flying, I'm just gonna drag things in. You can simply grab them and drag them to where you want them to be. I do wanna point out, there's a couple little icons down here. That's video only, that's audio, I just wanna grab my audio. If I have video and audio in the clip, I could just drag it right from the source window. So I'm gonna go ahead, drag the audio. I'm not even gonna trim it. I'll do that later, I can do that in the timeline. I'm gonna throw that down here. And instead of letting go on track one, I'm already starting to think about oh, my organizational structure. Even though I'm cutting to music I know I'm bringing some audio in. I like to put my narration or my voiceover on track one because I can always find it and work with it. And I can move things around afterwards but, I'll probably put the music on two, okay? That way I've left a space. If I haven't, I can go back and I can move it later. But I know that I probably want my narration there. Now this cut of music is 56 seconds long. I'm gonna leave it there cause maybe I wanna do a one minute piece. If I wanted to do a shorter piece, I could trim it, I could grab the end, and now it ends earlier and just fade out. You also have the luxury of, oh you know what? I like the way it ends. Well actually, I can see right here in my wave form. There's not a lot of music there so I can trim it, I'm just grabbing the end. And maybe I'll go through and I'm going to cut. I'm gonna hit the C key, and I could actually cut out a big chunk of this. And make the music shorter and maybe put a dissolve to have it transition. I'm doing this for demonstration purposes. No audio engineer is gonna go, "You have no idea if this music really matches." You're right, I don't. And I would never do it this way. But I do want you to see that it's very easy to shorten things. In Premiere, I would listen to it for the beats. There's an application that comes with the creative suite called Audition that allows you to really finesse your audio. So, that's just for a lustrative purposes. Cause I'm a very curious person I wanna see how good or bad this sounds. (music starts playing) Okay. After a few drinks, that would be fine. (audience laughs) I have people on this show drinking but I'm not going to put them in the video cause you know, it's like weddings. You don't show people eating or drinking cause nobody wants to see you know, Aunt Jeff chewing a sandwich. So there we go. You didn't know I had an Aunt Jeff did you? So, I have my audio. I'm gonna bring in the voiceover, Kennen's voiceover. I have that over here. There's my sequence. I'm gonna go down, there's my raw clip. I'm gonna close that folder. Let me zoom in so you can see it. One of the challenges with one, teaching this, and sometimes even editing is that, there's so much information and the resolution's so small it's hard to see. So I'm trying to zoom in as much as possible. I do that throughout the course so you can actually see what I'm seeing. So there's my VO. Remember, I made that folder for the voiceover. And I'm gonna go ahead and scroll down. I can double click to load that in. I'm going to do another trick. I can actually grab something directly from this folder from the bin, and drag it right into my sequence. So if I know I'm gonna use it and I know that it's perfect, I can just go ahead and drag it in. There it is. I'm gonna go ahead and play this. (music starts playing) You can't hear it, can you? The music is way louder than her voice. So, depending on where I am in the editorial process, in this case I have to do it now so I can hear her. I have to bring the volume of the music down and bring her audio levels up. And we do go into this in much greater detail in the following lessons. We have one dedicated to audio on how to read these meters and make sure your levels are good. I'm gonna kind of go through again, this pretty quickly. But I wanna bring that down, bring this up so I can hear her. I'm gonna go that on the fly. If I zoom in, I can just go ahead, and there's actually a little volume line here. And if you look at the bottom of the screen it says how soft you're making it in db, decibel levels. For the background music, I'm gonna bring that down to maybe -20. And I'll bring this one down to minus about the same. So we can't hear that horrible cut that I had. And now, if I play it, you kind of hear her voice. But it's really soft and you can tell it's soft also by this right here. There's a lot of great features in Premiere to fix audio. One of them is being able to control the gain or the default audio level. I can get to that with a keyboard shortcut. There's keyboard shortcuts for everything. The keyboard shortcut I just hit was the G key, G for gain, and I get this pop-up window. And what this allows me to do is automatically increase or decrease your audios level's fixed amount. We go into much more detail. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use one of these normalize max peaks, because what I wanna do is I want it to look at the loudest part. And right now the loudest part is -12, and she has a spike up there. But if I go there and I say, let everything peak at, I'm gonna say -1, so nothing gets over modulated. As soon as I say okay, you see everything just got a little bit louder? Let's play that. (voiceover and music start playing) I can now hear her, that was quick. I can also control volume with the sliders but, there's lots of ways that you can enhance your audio. As a matter of fact, we do have a lot of effects or filters. So if I wanted her audio to sound even a little bit better, because we recorded this basically on a little pocket recorder, there are filters I can throw on it. Video filters as well as audio filters, as well as transitions. We'll be learning about all that. But if I go down to my lower left hand panel, and scroll over, there's something called the effects filter. I'm gonna move it over here so you can see it. And inside the effects, I believe it's called voice. Did I spell voice right? I did. I don't see it. So let's go directly down. And this is the challenges. Sometimes I remember there are effects that are actually third party effects that I don't necessarily have on my program. I'm gonna hit the X key here. Audio effects, it would be right at the bottom. Oh, it's not called voice, it's called vocal enhancer. So I'm gonna grab that, drop that directly on her audio. If I go up into this upper left hand window, there is a tab called effects controls. There is the effect that I put on it. Is that the effect? There's a voiceover. So I throw it on her. Yeah there it is, vocal enhancer. And I'm gonna actually go here, click on edit, and I can do a lot of geeky stuff but I'm really all about make it easy, make it drop down. I'm just gonna say enhance female voice. And what's the difference between male voice and female voice? The frequency range in general. But of course, these are all presets. You can go in and they have filters or effects for everything. This is just gonna tweak it a little bit more. I have female selected. I can go ahead and hit play. (voiceover and music start playing) It just gives it a little more full sound. So very quickly, fixed the audio. I have us warming up with the mic here. (audio file starts playing) That's the pre-role stuff. So I can in my timeline just grab it, drag it, I've just edited that out. Maybe I want it to start a couple seconds in. I'm gonna go ahead and listen and play. (music and voiceover starts playing) So what I would eventually do is I have now something to work with. Part of the finishing process, I may actually go in and bring the music up louder before she starts talking and bring it up again at the end for the montage. As a matter of fact, I wanna do something. I cut this music down to show you I could do it but, it's too short, I wanna leave some space to actually see some of the video. So I'm gonna go ahead, I'm gonna delete this transition. I'm gonna delete the back half of the clip. Because it's non-destructive I can just go ahead and stretch it out and bring back all the audio that I just removed. So now I have all that extra space to cut video to.
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