LESSON 3: SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC

If you followed the previous tutorial you should have a video that consist of 4 clips but still needs some work. next thing we want to add is sound effects and music.

Where do you get this?? I have several site that I use. See below

Music: http://incompetech.com/music/

Sound effects: http://www.soundjay.com/

http://soundbible.com

These site offer free sound effects and music but you need give credit to the owner in your videos. You can also google royalty free music and sound effect to list more. just keep in mind to read through the site to confirm if its OK to use their work. most site have copyright music that cannot be used without permission from the owner.

Next step you wanna choose the music that best fit your video for this video we could use something suspense or Erie.

So you have your sound effects and music ready and you want to add it to the video. If you preview your video again you can probably hear the sound is horrible, so we need to clear the audio in the video that was recorded with the video. There is 2 ways of doing this. You could deleted the current audio or mute the audio, In this lesson we will mute to make things easy.

On the left of the audio track you see the volume track. just push the bar to the left (see below)

OK next step is to add the music you downloaded.  Go back to your explorer menu and drag the track into the time line.

Once you drag your music track in, make sure its at the beginning of the time line. if there is a gap in the track you can click and slide it to the left so the music plays when the video starts. (See below)



You can try and preview this to see how it looks.... Much better?

Next step we are going to add the sound effects. for this particular video you can use sounds effect like:  knocking, footsteps

Next go back to your explorer and drag in your sound effects (see below)

You will need to line up the sound effect to the video, Example.  the noise that wakes you up while sleeping (bang) drag the sound to that part of the video and when see your reaction should be a good place to make it believable.

You can continue to add your other sound tracks. example: when it shows the clip of the door. you can have the knocking sound effect. and finally the last sound effect would be, as you walk out of the room. place the footstep sound.

So now you can see how music and sound really adds to a video. it completely change the mood and makes it look music more believable.

Once you have completed this project to your satisfaction. the next step is add text to your video.