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adding sound effects to your videos can
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really help bring your footage to life
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they're a great way to help tell a story
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they increase production value and
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create a much more immersive experience
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for your audience so in this video i'm
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going to give you a crash course in
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sound effects so that you can level up
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your videos and make your footage stand
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out
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it's coming up
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[Music]
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hey everyone steve here from learn
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online video and today i'm going to be
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showing you how you can add sound
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effects to your footage sound design is
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such an important part of the production
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process but it's often overlooked
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especially when first starting out today
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i'm going to show you where you can get
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all of your sound effects for free i'm
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going to show you how to edit those
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sound effects and give you some creative
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tips to help keep your audience engaged
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today's video is sponsored by epidemic
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sound this is where i'm going to be
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getting all of my music and sound
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effects for this tutorial i will leave a
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link to a free trial to epidemic sound
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in the description below download as
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much as you like join in at home but
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first what is sound design well put
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simply it's creating what your audience
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hears this could be created by using
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natural sounds music sound effects but
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why would you need it well there are a
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number of reasons why you might need to
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use sound design or add sound effects to
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your footage the first is if the footage
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that you're working with has terrible
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audio maybe there was a lot of wind on
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the day maybe there was a lot of
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background noise or even worse maybe you
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forgot to plug your microphone in and
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your footage has got no audio at all
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this is where sound design comes in
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equally sound design can be used to help
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tell a story it can increase production
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value help keep an audience engaged and
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make your footage stand out so how can
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we use sound effects to help tell a
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story well let me give you an example
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i'm going to take this ball here and i'm
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going to throw it over there like this
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now you didn't see where that ball went
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but you assume it smashed through a
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window because you heard it smash
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through a window it didn't it landed on
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a cushion and i added a sound effect but
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that is the power of sound design let me
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give you one more example this time i'm
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going to take this hammer and i'm going
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to throw it over there like this
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[Music]
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now we've got two sound effects we've
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got the glass breaking and the cat
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screeching so by simply just adding one
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more sound effect we've now told even
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more of a story you can add sound
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effects to any type of footage it
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doesn't matter what camera you shoot on
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it doesn't matter what editing software
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you use the principles are exactly the
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same always ask yourself how can i
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improve my footage by adding sound
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sometimes this might be a simple case of
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just adding music a cinematic b-roll
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sequence without cinematic music isn't
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going to be very cinematic
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boring
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but add a cinematic film score and all
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of a sudden you've got something that
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looks feels and sounds much more
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cinematic
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so what are some go-to sound effects and
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how can we use them well let's start off
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with the sound effect that i use by far
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the most which is the whoosh sound
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effect epidemic sound have a ton of
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these you can download and experiment as
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much as you like now a wush sound effect
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works really well with any type of fast
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camera movement for example i could whip
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my camera from one shot to another and
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add a whoosh sound effect to help
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emphasize that movement equally i could
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be pushing my camera forward but want to
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speed up this footage i could add a
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speed ramp and whoosh sound effect much
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better much more engaging and much more
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fun to watch adding sound effects is
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about as easy as it gets simply line up
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your sound effect with your footage and
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you are done i find the best thing to do
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is to build up an archive of sound
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effects that you can just dip into at
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any given moment also here's a quick tip
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for finding what you're looking for much
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quicker find something that you like
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music or sound effects then click find
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similar just here you'll then be taken
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to a list of similar music or sound
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effects very useful and a huge time
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saver now on my timeline here i have
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five short video clips i'm going to show
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you five different ways that you could
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use sound design to help bring each one
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to life now the five clips that i have
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on my timeline here are all stock
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footage and generally stock footage
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doesn't have any audio so let's fix this
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okay shot number one let's start nice
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and simple we have a shot of some
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seagulls at the beach let's bring this
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footage to life okay i'm gonna head over
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to epidemic sound and search for
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seagulls we've got plenty of options
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let's download a few now let's add some
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ambient beach sounds and some waves
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crashing now i'm simply going to place
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all three of these sounds underneath my
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footage and this is the result
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and of course we could add music let's
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go for something inspirational and we've
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now got this
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[Music]
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okay clip number two we have the hustle
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of new york city now let's look at what
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we can see and think about what sounds
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would best go with this footage well
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let's start off really simple and type
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in new york city into the search bar and
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we now have literal sounds from new york
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city perfect look also we have an
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ambulance with its lights on so let's
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add some sirens to this footage i want
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traffic moving horn's beeping the works
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let's take a listen
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much better okay for the next clip i've
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already added the sound effect to this
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footage of a very wet and miserable
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looking day but can you notice anything
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different or unusual about this sound
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listen carefully
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just sounds like rain right well in fact
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it's actually the sound of bacon frying
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but because you saw the rain your brain
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told you that it was rain that you were
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hearing so you don't necessarily need to
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use the sound effects that match the
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footage that you're working with the
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sound could be of something completely
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different the sound just needs to work
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with your footage okay shot number four
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we've got a very stormy sea a big wave
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rising up and crashing down it looks
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windy so let's add some wind sound
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effects now let's set a dark and ominous
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mood by adding some dark and ominous
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music let's also add some sounds of
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waves crashing and just as this big wave
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crashes down let's add an explosion
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sound effect of some kind let's add the
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sound of thunder cracking this will work
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well and will really help emphasize the
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wave crashing down now the footage is in
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slow motion so i want a sound that
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matches let's go with this one here
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thunder crack so we're now starting to
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get much more creative okay so we've got
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our footage and underneath we've added
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music and three sound effects we've got
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wind waves and a thunder crack just as
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the wave crashes down let's take a look
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okay great and as you can see we're now
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starting to layer up our sound effects
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and you can take this to any level you
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like you could mix your sound effects
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with all types of different music you
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could go happy and upbeat epic dreamy or
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suspenseful the choice is yours okay the
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final clip let's see one more example
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okay we've got a shot of some wine being
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poured not particularly exciting so how
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can we make this footage much more
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interesting let's start telling a story
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and being much more creative okay we
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know the basics now let's start by
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searching for some sounds of drinks
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being poured
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there we go loads to choose from let's
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go with this one here now this could be
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the kitchen of a restaurant but let's
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make this a house party let's find some
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house party crowd sands
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yep great and it would be a pretty dull
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party if there wasn't any music so let's
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go with a nice dance anthem this one
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looks good let's go with that one let's
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take a look
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[Music]
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much better we have instantly created an
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atmosphere by simply using music and
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sound effects i don't know where this
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part is but i want to be there but how
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can we get a little bit more creative
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with this shot well what about if this
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shot was part of a short film and we
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wanted to rewind this scene back to the
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start of the day in a creative way well
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we could start by reversing the clip so
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that the wine then gets sucked back up
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out of the glass and into the bottle but
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what about sound well let's reverse the
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sound of the drink being poured to match
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the footage
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not bad okay right now let's speed up
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the last part of this footage so that
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the drink gets sucked up a bit quicker
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i'm going to do this by adding a speed
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ramp at the end and i'm going to do the
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same with the audio let's take a look
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okay not bad but it's still missing
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something let's add a riser what's a
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riser well let me show you because
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there's a ton here a riser is a sound
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effect that starts off quiet and then
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gets louder and stops risers work really
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well for ending a scene now let's add
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our party crowd sound effect and our
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dance anthem and see what we've got
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[Music]
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and end scene so as you can see by
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simply adding music and sound effects to
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your footage you can dramatically change
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the feel mood story and this really
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helps bring your films and videos to
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life be sure to check out epidemic sound