In this video, we're going
to shorten stock music to length. It's rare for a piece of music to
match the length of your video perfectly. We'll cover two techniques. One, cutting out portions in
the middle of a song to shorten it, and two, creating a ring out. We'll be showing you how
we source the music from audio, but these techniques will
work with music from any platform. There's more information at
the end of the video about this, but if you like what you see, you can get 70% off of your
first year subscription of audio using the code TEAM2FILM70. Okay, technique number one. There's two kinds
of songs you might work on. The first has no discernible
rhythm, but they do have a distinct ending. On audio, I'm going
to search for music like this by adding ambient and
cinematic genres to my filter, which will reveal a
selection of suitable songs, like this one here. This should work just fine. I'll place a cut where the song's outro begins and then
position the ending in my timeline. I can delete the rest of
the song as it's no longer needed. Adding a crossfade
will disguise the edit. If the default fade is too short, add a longer fade which
will help make the edit harder to hear. Even though the song
has minimal to no rhythm, care still needs to
be taken when positioning the edit point. As the melody in
the song progresses, it's possible there might
be things like key changes, so if you are
having a problem, an easy fix might be just to
simply roll the edit left or right to hear what sounds best. Let's get rid of what we
currently put in the timeline. This time I'm going to look in
their curated playlist, Best of Summer. I'll use this track
called Face, but the vocals won't suit my edit so
I'll download the instrumental version. Straight away, I can
tell the intro is too long. I'll cut where the first beat lands. This song has a 4-4 time
signature that's 4 beats in a bar. Those bars are arranged into phrases. Each phrase has 4 bars. Sometimes phrases are
even organized into periods. The melody patterns in those phrases and periods sounds fast
when allowed to play until it's complete. Chopping music in
the middle of a phrase or a period will
interrupt that melody before it's had a chance to resolve. But when we respect that structure within our edits, the
audience might never be aware of the edit's existence. You can identify the end of a
phrase by the cadence of the melody. If you're having
problems, try this technique. Start from the beginning of the
song and tap and count along with the music. In this instance, every 4 taps is a bar. And in this song, typically around
the eighth time you count 4 is a phrase. Although there are
some 4-bar phrases too. So get your finger
ready on the spacebar to stop the playhead
dead center on the end of a phrase and let's count. That was the end of the first phrase. Were you with me on that counting? Let's zoom in to see how we did. I'll head over to detail zoom. That's really good! As I'm trying to shorten the song, I'll move to the end and
find another phrase where I can cut the song
using the same technique. Instead of pressing
spacebar to stop playback and then make the
cut, as soon as my playhead hit the correct beat, I used command B. That put a cut right
where my playhead was located. Let's bring these two clips
together and see how the edit sounds. That worked really well. We landed the cuts pretty cleanly. If you have a problem however
with your cut, try this technique. Place the two clips in different
tracks and extend one over the other. Drum beats are really
easy to see in the waveform. If these two clips are in
sync, their drum beats will line up. Actually a lot of DJ software has
waveform visualizations just like this. And if they're not
lined up, just try nudging one of the clips
left or right and then trim the tracks down as needed
before returning back to the same track. Time for technique number two, ring outs. That's when a song ends
abruptly but with a small amount of reverb. To find a song to use for this demonstration, I'm going
to take inspiration from a song by Moby. Now, I don't have the rights to use his music but Audio's
Link Match AI can help me find songs in their library
with a similar style and rhythm. So I'm going to find the Moby track on YouTube, copy the link
to my clipboard and paste it into Link Match AI. It's not going to be a perfect match because if it was a
perfect match, it would be the same song. I like using this feature as a way of exploring music that
would be difficult to find using the regular search features. So it's brought up my selection. I'm going to use
Bigger Bounce by Wave Haven and again, the
lyrics won't suit my edit so I'll grab the instrumental. Let's remove the last song we added. Do you know what's
cool? Have you noticed that I keep dragging the
track straight into my timeline? But because I have the assets been
selected, the bin which I would put my music, it's dropping it there for me. Just like editing
music, a ring out won't sound right unless it's placed
in the correct part of the song. They typically sound best on a
strong note or drum beat in a song, but they don't always
need to be placed at the end of a bar, phrase or period,
giving you greater flexibility. In fact, as music stops, ring outs are
usually used for dramatic or comedic effect. The lack of resolution to a
musical motif can add to their effect. Find the note you want to ring out on. Here sounds good to me. I'll place a cut. Get rid of the portion of
the song we don't need anymore. It's only a few frames
from the finish of my edit, so it will be easy for me
to tweak the visuals as well. At the moment, this music
stop is dry. There's no reverb. Reverb is an important part of the
effect because it makes it sound deliberate. It gives the impression that someone was playing the song,
but then suddenly stopped it. We'll fix the dryness
of this with the reverb effect. I can't just apply reverb
to the entire clip for two reasons. Firstly, we'll hear the reverb
throughout the entire song, which we do not want. And secondly, when
a reverb is used as a clip effect, it's only
audible for the duration of the clip. In other words, we won't hear
any reverb after the song has finished. That's the part where
we want to hear the reverb. Not what we're after. Let's
delete the reverb from the clip. You'll find it in
Inspector, under Effects. Hit Delete. The easiest way to solve this problem
is to create a separate Ring Out audio track. If you don't already
have a spare stereo track created, add a new
one, and name it MX Ring Out. Select the track header, and in the Inspector, you can add
effects to the entire track. Let's add the reverb. I'll change it from Default to Cathedral. Now, anything I place
in this track will have reverb, and because the reverb has
been applied to the entire track, that reverb will continue even
after the clips in the timeline finish. This is the key to creating a Ring Out. To do this, I'm
going to go find that beat and add it down to
this new track we've created. Let's get a taste of what it sounds like. [music] Then we've got Ring Out. We can further refine the effect by playing with the
track volume or reverb settings. Let's finish up by adding
some quick fades to these clips. Before we finish, music Ring Outs
can also be enhanced with Sound Effects. For example, how about the
sound of a record needle being pulled? Let's go grab one from
Audio's Sound Effects library. Pretty cool. Let's try another effect. Searching around, I found this
cool sound called Space Bridge Hit. Let's add it. That also works pretty well with the ring out, and we can play
around with the attenuation to get the mix right. If you're interested
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techniques that we showed you today will work no matter
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