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In this tutorial, we're going to be
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talking about adding music to your project.
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And the key things I want to teach you are
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one, where can you find free music
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or high quality, but inexpensive music
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for your projects,
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and then next, how do we add it to a project
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and specifically, how do we shorten a song.
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A lot of times,
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our video isn't going to be the perfect length
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matching up with a song
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so we're going to have to cut it shorter
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and I'll show you some tricks on how to do that.
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So we get a sequence that looks something like this
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where here, down below, you see actually
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Goodbye Summer, this is the song we chose,
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and Secret Conversations.
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We're using both of these songs for our project.
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So first, where do we find free music?
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One place is the YouTube Audio Library.
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If you sign into your YouTube account,
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which you'll have to sign up for,
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and then go to the Creator Studio
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and then down under Create,
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there's this Audio Library where you can search through
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and find all kinds of free music.
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You can search by genre, mood, instrument, duration,
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also attribution.
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Some of these songs, you can use for free
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on whatever project,
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other times, you have to give credit to the actual author
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by crediting them in your video
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or at least in the description of your video
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wherever you upload it.
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Another place that I like is audiojungle.net.
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This has a bunch of good music
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that is relatively inexpensive.
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$10 to $20 seems to be the range for most songs
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and they have a lot more, higher quality
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and different music than you can find for free.
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So those are my two resources that I go to
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when I'm trying to find music which
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although it is not one of my favourite parts
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of video editing,
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it is something that I find myself doing often
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as the video editor for projects.
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So let's get back to Premiere Pro
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and I'm just going to actually move this music
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that I already added over to the side
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so I can start from scratch.
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The thing about music is that
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it can really add a lot to your video.
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Audio is so important and music can make a
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scene seem more exciting, more happy, more sad,
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more dramatic, more suspenseful.
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So music is an important part of video creation.
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You don't necessarily always want to have music.
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It's sometimes good to actually not have music
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to make a point stand out
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if someone's saying something very important,
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just let them talk without music.
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But for a short documentary,
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having nice music throughout is a good idea
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and changing up music also makes it even better.
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So in this little piece,
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even though it's only a minute long,
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we're going to have a transition
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from a happier song
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to more of a sadder, dramatic song
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because there is a tone shift
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in what Anthony is talking about.
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I've included some music that you imported probably already.
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These are songs from the YouTube Library,
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so feel free to use them in whatever project you want.
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I'm going to start with the Goodbye Summer track.
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So I'm just double-clicking it to open it up
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in my source monitor.
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Then I'm going to play with the timeline up here,
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go to the very beginning, set my in point,
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start playing it or just go forward just a little bit,
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and then set my out point.
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And all I'm doing is just taking a little bit of it
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so I can then bring it down onto my actual timeline.
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So I'm going to do that.
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I'm going to drag it down to my timeline.
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One thing that I already did before this lesson
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was I went to my audio track mixer
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and I changed the level of track 3 and track 4 to -20.
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When you add music to your project,
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look at your audio track mixer,
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play through it, and see what the decibel level
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that the voice and the music is balancing around.
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You see the voice over here balancing around
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6, -10, -15.
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And then the audio for the music is balancing around
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24, -25.
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In general, you want the music to be
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10 to 15 decibels lower than the vocal or the voice
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of the interview so that the voice isn't drowned out
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by the music, so adjust accordingly.
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And I did that for both track 3 and 4
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so that I can add two songs and have them
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sort of fade into each other.
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So we have this song and if we play through it
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and listen to it on our track,
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we'll see that it actually adds a lot to this interview.
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The same year I was diagnosed, that summer
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the whole ALS ice bucket challenge--
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It's happy, it's exciting.
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Anthony's talking about something that is exciting,
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the ice bucket challenge.
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Ugly, you know and that doesn't--
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So he's happy this whole time
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and then it kind of switches his tone
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when he gets to this point when he talks about
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To me, meant that I wasn't alone.
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For a disease that literally will take away my voice--
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So when he talks about
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for a disease that will literally take away my voice,
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that's when it takes a dramatic shift
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and that's where we want to transition
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into another song.
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And we're going to do that with the
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Secret Conversation song.
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But first, we need to end this Goodbye Summer song
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and we could just fade it out,
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that's something that we could do,
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we can just bring it in to this point on the timeline,
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add a default transition,
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and fade it out,
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or we can try to end it with the end of the song.
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Sometimes songs have a nice ending
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where it sounds different,
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it's more of a closure to the end of the song.
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So we might want to use the end of this song.
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So what I'm going to do is take my razor blade tool,
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pressing C on my keyboard,
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just make a cut, right around here.
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It doesn't really matter where it is right now.
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Then I'm pressing Y on my keyboard
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to bring up the slip tool
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and I'm going to click this clip,
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the second part of the music,
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and drag to the left all the way until the end of the song.
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And you can see from the waveforms that
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this is the end of the song.
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For a disease that literally will--
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Then we have to find
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a place where these can match up.
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Thankfully, this song is relatively repetitive,
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so we just have to find a beat
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where the song will look good or sound good meeting up.
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I'm going to solo track 3 and track 4.
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I'm just going to make the videos even smaller
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so I have more room for the audio timeline.
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And actually, right now I'm going to put this
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second part of the song on track 4.
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So solo 4 and 3 and then extend this part of the song
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over this first part.
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Now we have our two music clips kind of overlapping.
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We want this second part to end right about here.
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So let's hear what Anthony is saying.
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To me, meant that I wasn't alone.
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So we can fade out when he says
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I wasn't alone, right about there.
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And then we're just going to tweak it.
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So we're gonna zoon in here
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and see where the beats of the song are
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and you can see it just from the spikes on the waveform.
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So in this top one, we see a beat here, here, here.
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On this second part, we see beats here, here, here.
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So I'm guessing that if we match up one of these beats,
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something like this,
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where there's a beat there, a beat there,
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it might sound good.
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And to test it out,
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I would just play it with these two overlapping.
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It's a little bit off.
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I see as I zoom out that actually,
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there's beats here, here, here, here, here, here,
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so that's what I'm going to line up.
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So I'm just selecting this second part of the music clip,
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pressing command and right and left arrows on my keyboard
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to nudge it to the left or right.
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And now I can play through it.
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It's pretty good, maybe nudge one frame to the right.
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That sounds really good.
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So now, we just have to cut this first clip,
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probably right about here.
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And the second clip right about there
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and just drop the second part on top of the first part.
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Delete this part and now if we play through it,
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we need a little bit of a transition
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so just right-click, apply default transition.
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That sounds pretty darn good
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and especially when we have the vocals on it
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or the interview.
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Because it's ugly, you know and that doesn't go viral
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but as soon as somebody does something random and fun,
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it goes viral and so that's what I did.
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That sounds great.
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And now it just fades out
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exactly where we want it to fade out.
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Then we can just quickly take the Secret Conversations song
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and I'm just going to take the last part of the song
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so I'm just gonna go on the timeline up here
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towards the end, set an in point,
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drag it down here to track 4.
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You can see with this song,
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it does have more of a dramatic fade-out right here
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so with the waveform,
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it goes and then right around this point,
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it fades out.
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So I'm gonna put this point
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right at the end of my audio,
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right about there.
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And then it kind of fades out with just a couple
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guitar beats at the end.
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So with my razor blade tool,
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I'm going to cut that last part,
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apply that default transition.
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Just fade it out at the end
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then extend it.
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Right about there
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to meet up with this audio.
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Just have a nice fade-in
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with the default transition.
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That I wasn't alone.
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For a disease that literally will take away my voice,
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for a demographic--
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And this song seems to be a little bit louder
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and you can tell by the waveform.
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It's a lot bigger than this one over here.
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So we're going to actually go to the audio track mixer
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and drop this one down to maybe -25dB.
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So just play through it one more time
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Just insane.
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The biggest thing to me meant that I wasn't alone.
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For a disease that literally will--
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And I think that sounds good.
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The transition of the music definitely amplifies the
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emotions that we're getting in the film itself.
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Thank you so much for watching this video.
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If you have any questions about adding or
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editing music to your own project,
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let me know, but for now your action item is
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to choose one of these songs
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or find another song on the YouTube Library
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or if you do want to purchase a song
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on AudioJungle, you can.
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But find some music that you think makes your video better,
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add it, edit it to your film, and we'll go from there.
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Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lessons.