HOW I EDIT B ROLL & SOUND DESIGN

you know never mind what's up everybody Peter we get in here welcome back to yet another video another day another vid thanks so much for tuning in love ya good to see you here all of your smiling faces today we are gonna break down the break the habit video basically how I edit at b-roll video above short mini short film an internet video weird breakdown how I make a video specifically the shots I chose and why how I organize them and then most importantly the sound design how I did it the things that I use the places I got the sounds and why it makes videos a thousand times better and we're gonna end things off with a challenge giving away some subscriptions to epidemics sounds that you can do the same thing it's gonna be a good one I'm super excited for the hashtag challenge by the way because it's almost the end of summer depressing so we're going to end off the summer with another hashtag challenge which I'm psyched about so with all that out of the way let's jump in to the video today alright so jumping into Premiere Pro it all starts for me where the project bins live so I like to make different folders for all the different cameras that we're using and then just random folders like Miss SFX music those types of things everything's organized it's all clean it's all tidy I know if I open up any of these folders everything is neatly organized inside ready to go what is in misc things like light hits or dust or random drone shots or mat bars or you know a little insert or a meme or whatever I'm trying to you know just accent well little spice rack if you will just drop it in some spices those those things go in the misc folder this edit specifically the whole underwater film kind of happened by accident give you a little a little back history on what you saw Tuesday called break the habit from a nation that operates on a false belief that were not as important without a blue check or a first-class seat to social status over a social life an online presence rather than being present that little spoken word thing I actually wrote that on a flight home from Finland a year ago and I recorded that voice over the same day I recorded the voiceover for that little film I made called the owl those moments are important with the real moments you know the substance and nostalgia in life it's the small everyday stuff the routines those were done within 10 minutes of each other and I had this voice over I had it with some other footage and I've been trying it on different things here and there just didn't fit it just didn't fit it didn't feel like it was working so I just put it on the back shelf last week went out to make a vlog which you've probably seen by now called underwater photography where Chris Howe and myself were exploring this new housing in just different ways to take photos because it's difficult so I started editing the b-roll because I was feeling it they got home super-excited and realize like oh this is this is kind of dope this is kind of better than the vlog so I thought to myself maybe I should just put it out as its own little video because I'm just really proud of it it just really turned out well I got I'm psyched on this then I thought the voice-over that might actually work for this because the footage kind of feels ominous and just a little bit darker and moody it's got that heavy weights that feeling to it I thought that voice over might just be perfectly suited after I finished editing everything did all the sound all the sound designs I dropped that voice over in and it just worked so he sent everything off to get it mixed it came back sounded amazing it's funny I was like I didn't plan for that even be a video that was gonna make last week so it just happened that's your little backstory that's your little history on break a habit take a look at the timeline this is what it looks like you get your main Clips right here you got your end titles you got a couple accents at the top got a little dust filter in there this little thing added these little bad boys and all those little floaties in the water a lot of that stuff was already in the water this particular shot didn't have anything I thought it looks kind of cool and then the real the real meat of this piece happens on all the audio tracks below so you can see there's not a ton I've done a lot more sound design than this but these all of these things are all the sounds that I specifically added to make it feel you know a lot more cinematic that sound design has everything to do with what makes that film great it's one of those understated things sometimes it's not very exciting to do the more and more I do it the more and more I love it but it adds so much value to a film I might be wondering where I get all my sounds it's kind of a mix between sounds I make myself with my own sound packs epidemic sound is where to get the bulk of everything because not only do they do music like I've told you guys they they do sound effects as well and then I've just picked up random packs here and there and I have this just massive library of the most random things I think if I needed I got cattle walking I'll find it I'll try to find sonar beep I'll try to find those specific things going back to epidemics sound they have a massive massive sound effects library so like the sonar beats at the beginning all of those are from epidemics down so you know what you've seen the film this is what it sounds like you get that cool music in the background little sonar beep well-placed nice piano comes in all of those undertones in the background all of those whooshes the bubbles that you're hearing all of those things just add add to the mood and just the vibes that you get when you watch this without those it wouldn't be nearly as impactful there's that sonar beeping n-now the music it's paused that the music makes it sentimental it makes it feel sad it makes it feel emotional which is great but I'm gonna play it again in a second without any of the actual music just to show you how cool it sounds is just with the sound design okay cool so that's enough let's go ahead disable those two audio tracks right click enable right click enable so now all you're gonna hear is the sound design from this film I'll let it roll for a little bit just you can kind of get a little idea [Music] it's almost cool without music like it would work you could upload this with no music and guarantee there's maybe commenters that say I prefer it without music and yeah there's a little bit of me that does too fun little fact that sound you've heard of me kicking my foot was actually a low-pass filter I put on the sound of a jet flying through the air just worked with the water and the way my foot cut through that so one of my tips would be if you're making sound design it doesn't always necessarily have to be the exact sound that you're looking for I talked about this maybe two years ago now when I was shooting with Jesse driftwood and he he did a massive like ollie off of like a six set and when he landed I wanted like a really impactful hit but I didn't want like a typical boom I wanted a good impactful like I wanted you to feel it in your bones and your bone marrow that's where I wanted you to feel it I found a sound clip of prison doors being slammed shut a sound of jail doors being slammed shut it sounds like this put a little extra sauce on those in Premiere Pro low-pass different EQ things and when he lands that's steel that that slamming of the door resonating just sounded so good and it's just those little things like a fighter jet going by if you hear it again you'll see what I mean by like very easy sound to find low passed it doubled it split it just a little bit just play it around until it sounded right you'd never know that was a jet the funny thing is getting on to the getting out of the CD there that water splash that didn't exist those were two sounds I found on epidemic sound called like bathtub water splash or something I just found two that worked put them in the exact spot because you don't know where the water hits like you can't see it individually falling on different parts of that platform like it just you just see water splashing you hear it your brain makes the connection it works so listen to that again [Music] [Music] so anytime I did underwater stuff I found what's called like an atmospheric undertone if you will not necessarily music not necessarily a sound effect but just like a resonating undertone and atmospheric sound of just like kind of like wind blowing or but those types of atmospheric undertones work great especially when you're trying to get like a creepy vibe or a mysterious or scary those types of things which works for underwater you can hear there in the background so that was just a sound effect of someone's swimming I just slowed it down by 50% because the sound effects sounded like this so I just put it back in slowed it down to 50% put a low-pass filter on it and a low-pass filter I'll show you that in a second right so if I have to do that again in the timeline we've got our in and our out points I can drag that on here now we listen to that okay cool command J if you're on a Mac and I can change that speed to 50% now we listen to it it works but it's just like a little too sharp it's a little too bright that sounds you come over here to effects you're gonna type in low-pass drag that onto our clip here and now let's listen to it and it sounds like this so that even listening to that could sound like breathing underwater like letting bubbles go so you could even double that sound with something sinking underwater and it would sound like let's just say you threw a stone into the water and then you followed it down as it was just sinking lower and lower and lower now visualize that and listen to this 100% that would work and that's just the sound of someone swimming but we just adjusted it to work for something else that's where sound design just gets very exciting so that low-pass is a little bit too much you don't hear this you don't hear the sloshing of the water as sharp as I wanted it so we just adjust the cutoff a little bit until you find something you're happy with that's good now you've got a sound that works for two different things let's keep watching there's that bathtub noise again obviously a hit and you dive into the water bubbles again because we're seeing bubbles so again brain makes that connection it just works in a little whoosh to go with that reverse clip and then at the end for the credits put those sonar beeps back in with the underwater bubbles now after all of those things were finished music looked good about how I wanted it to feel sound design was ready to go what you do if you're gonna ever send this off to someone who mixes audio you send them an om F file which is an open media framework I think it stands for but essentially I don't have to send Gabe all my additional sound effects I just export the OMF file then he can bring that into Pro Tools or whatever software he's using to mix an audio engineer and he can still tweak all of those things for me and then send me back a final mix we are creatures of habit yearning for a way to be heard but rarely stop to hear now it's all done so all I got to do is completely disable all the audio from everything so we can do that by selecting all of the audio just coming down here dragging a box over everything and then right click and enable that basically Gray's out all of the audio as you can see mr. t right here so we can click and disable those ones and then we just drop in our master mix at the bottom and the only thing we have for audio is that fresh new track at the bottom that has everything with it a couple other little fun things that I did was color grading this so if you've ever shot underwater video in a lake specifically the one that's close to me isn't necessarily the clearest lake that you've ever seen it's not really freshwater it's it works and it's it's nice and I like to go out and swim in it but by no means is it good for footage so let's just take a look for example at the color grade of a clip like this water and let's hide the effects on it that's actually what it looked like put that effect back on and that is the color grade we ended with same thing with diving into the water here before after it was really difficult with the shots that were split half-and-half or you could see the sky and you could see the water because I wanted to color grade the water but with the amount of color grading I had to do to shift it from green to blue it affected the sky as well so I'd to create a mask which let me just color grade the water not touching the sky but I had to do that mask for every frame of the water right so check this out so coming over here to that jumping shot which was super cool if we turn off the effects that's what the water looked like but I wanted it to look like this but if the whole sky looked like that it was it would just look weird so up here is actually the mask that I made you can see that mask as it moves through the frames because you have to mask it frame by frame because that water is moving right so if we scrub through from the beginning it's little things like that that usually go unnoticed but those types of things take a long time but they do make those projects a lot nicer when you put the love and the extra attention into little things like that now in this particular clip I go underwater and Chris follows me down but I didn't like what it looked like once we got under the water now we'll play it frame by frame so you can see me going underwater and suddenly that's a new shot so I started masking out the water as it just moves upwards and then my body continues to fall down so when you see it at speed you don't even realize there's a cut there it's kind of just been hidden your brain just kind of pieces together so again I created a mask masked out the transition as that camera goes onto the water to a different clip of me going onto the water but going in the same direction that's screen direction we've talked about that sometimes if you have someone walking to the right and the next clip cuts and it's a car driving to the right then it's a bird flying to the right those things all seamlessly work together well because of screen direction they're all going the same way so feels seamless it feels almost like a transition in and of itself but it's not your brain just kind of pieces it together the shot up top he was moving down the next shot he's still moving down cool and we covered that cut with a mask on the water and if we go frame by frame it just slowly moves up so that wasn't a very big one it was only one two three four frames and that was enough to get a nice little seamless seamless little transition there so finding those clips that work together even though you didn't intentionally shoot them to be together is something to definitely look for when you're making projects like this now one last tip that I like to do when I'm making things like little mini short films or little b-roll films if you will is making sure that music ends when it's supposed to so this track was actually quite a bit longer three minutes and 11 seconds but you'll notice the film is only 2 minutes and 30 seconds so I just made a little cut here you probably even really notice when you're actually paying attention to the video that's what the cot was [Music] might be a little obvious now that I've pointed it out when you're watching the film no one's gonna know that there was a cut there so I just find a spot near the ending that I like because it got more triumphant it's starting to build and I wanted that as the ending and I found the same kind of note that watched the waveform and I just matched them up as best as I could I would say don't be afraid to take the music that you want and Frankenstein it up a little bit so that it works specifically for you that's something that we always try to do with our videos is end them where the song ends instead of just having to fade it out I'm not a big fan of just long fade outs of music it works but I prefer it to end where it's supposed to end it makes it feel more polished and professional like it was meant for this piece and I think I already mentioned this but I love to choose the music first a lot of times I hear something and it it inspires the idea for a project I hear that music and it starts to inject ideas into my brain and then I want to shoot to match the music that I hear in my head or that I found online so a lot of the times that's how I start things and I started this whole project by finding that music first it could have been the first thing I put him a timeline so having that allowed me to just edit the mood through the song versus trying to have all the footage and then find a song that maybe works for all of the cuts I always find for me personally as an editor finding that track first really helps not only just with editing to the beat but inspiring the whole visual before we even get started so those are just kind of my tips I hope you guys enjoyed that a little just a little behind the scenes look at how I make something like this starts with organization finding the music and getting inspired to culling through the footage to find good transition points the color grade obviously and then a big one is the sound design so coming back to that I propose that we do the p.m. SFX challenge so definitely hashtag you're gonna post these on instagrams so the challenge is make a 30-second b-roll film highly in which sound effects using music and sound from epidemic sound now I've linked it below if you're not a member that's where I get all my music that's where I get all my sound effects a lot of stuff comes right there so if you want to sign up trial all of those things are outlined clearly at the link below click on that check it out we'll get back to this at the very beginning of September I want to give you guys some time if you're traveling or if you want to go somewhere to make it and then we'll feature let's say ten different artists but you got to use that hashtag PM SFX challenge so I can go through them and then we'll all listen together so that'll be cool and we'll pick three winners and they'll get one-year subscription free from epidemic sound okay guys that is it for me hopefully you liked this video I hope you enjoyed it hope you got something out of it subscribe if you want to stick around and see more photography cinematography vlogs short this is all of the things stick around if you want to see more of that be happy to have you join the community join the discussion and and I will see you in the next video see ya [Music]

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Length: 20min 41sec (1241 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 13 2019