For every new content creator or person making videos that will require them to either be on-camera or recorded on audio, the is one unifying and horrifying point that we all go through.
I do NOT look like that or I do NOT sound like that or… both!
There are specific reasons that occurs and a large part of coming to grips with it is understanding why that happens.
Fair warning though, you are still going to look and sound like that only now you wont have any mystery attached to it!
Very often when you are navigating around the internet trying to get hold of video and audio assets on the cheap… like me, you often don’t get exactly what you want.
Sometimes you get the right video but no audio ot the right audio but no video.
That in itself is not a huge problem because you can always find something appropriate to complete the picture so to speak.
The real problem arises when you try to manipulate one or the other of these recently matched assets or assets on other parts of the timeline.
These assets tend to behave individually still and often it can all go a bit wacky with stuff moving around when it shouldn’t!
To stop this there is usually a feature in most video editing software that groups or locks those audio and video assets together so that when dealing with them they behave as one entity.
Here’s a look at what I am talking about in PowerDirector and just be aware that other video editors will have different terminology for that same feature.
This video and the one below that cover a few of the latest updates to Filmora 15.
From my perspective in using the software I am happy to see they have eased back on the whole A.I. thing and refocused on editing features.
The stuff they are coming up with in the main are what it says on the box, which are tools and improvements to speed up and improve workflow.
This is an interesting tutorial from the folks at Filmora covering the new audio tools available in Filmora 15.
Now strictly speaking these are not totally new tools but they have been updated in a way that makes them far more useful and easy to use.
By the way, yes the voiceover in the video is A.I generated because the guy that made the video doesn’t speak English, so I think we can forgive that!
The problem being addressed here is that often you may have video and audio assets on the timeline that have noticeably different volume levels.
For anyone watching a video that has all that going on, it is very distracting and will kill watch-time in a flash.
Solving that problem is the past would lead to a seemingly endless and frustratingly circular process of individually adjusting clips levels to match.
Once you had all that handled then then you would upload to YouTube or whatever and find that the whole project was either too loud or too soft compared to other videos and again, watch-time dies!
The new tools in Filmora handle all of that by making the clip level normalization and gain work together seamlessly and then have the project level normalization and going do the same.
On top of that it now has clearly marked common normalization levels for services like YouTube (-14Lufs) or Podcasts (-16Lufs).
This is just a pretty simple ideas tutorial form the folks at Movavi.
I don’t think any of us are going to be having too much trouble using green screen these days.
What was once a wildly exotic effect only the really cool kids had access to is now so mainstream it is borderline boring!
So this tutorial is not so much how to use green screen but more what to use it on for an effects.
Well maybe not necessarily a map like the New York Times but a map anyway.
Probably about once per years I get some kind of project that requires I use, create or do something with a map.
Inevitably that results in me faffing about on the interwebs trying to find resources to do that for free because HEY! I’m not paying for something I only use once a year!
So, you can take the tutorial below at face value and learn how to do what it says or, follow along and steal the location of all the free assets and services in there. Its up to you!
Derral Eves has over half a million subscribers on YouTube and the crazy part is that he doesn’t actually target his own channel as his business model!
His own channel is sort of a side gig that comes as a result of the consulting work he does for other channels.
So, why is this even relevant? Well I’m glad you asked!
Derral is one of my absolute go to guys for YouTube content and channel strategies so if you want to expand into that space, this is one of the guys to listen to.
I have generally liked audio tutorials Mike Russell has put out over the years but for the past your or so things have changed a little.
A lot of his stuff has become shamelessly biased towards whatever product or service he happens to be promoting at the time.
I can understand the need to do this cos lets face it, that rent aint gonna pay itself!
However I also think that only presenting one alternative for a job that many can do is pushing it all a little too far.
So the video below is a good tutorial for handling a phone as an audio recording device and even the workflow suggestion is good as well.
However the final step of taking it to an A.I service is definitely not restricted to Riverside.FM!
My workflow is somewhat similar and goes like this:
Record as best I can using the tips Mike mentions in the video and the best set up I can pull together at the time.
Pull the video and audio into whatever video editor I am using and apply and basic correction that I can.
For example I can sample the background noise and just about every video editor these days has the ability to remove it reasonably well.
I then apply a little compression and normalization to get the levels even.
If need I also go for some de-reverb to get any echoey room sound out.
All the above is done on a best efforts basis on the understanding that the better I can get the audio myself, the better an A.I. service is going to make it sound.
Then when I have done whatever I can I use Adobe Podcast or Filmora 15 or PowerDirector or Movavi or any one of a bunch of A.I. engines that can handle audio.
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