Most Editors Ignore SOUND DESIGN (And It RUINS Your Edits)

The importance of sound design in video editing

Sound design is something that lots of editors ignore and I get it, video editing is our passion. It's what we love. That doesn't mean we can ignore sound, it's equally as important as the video. They belong together, just like Batman and Robin! If you don't know how to start sound designing your videos, check out the 3 tricks in this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial video.

Matching audio coming from a laptop

In the first example you can see Tymon watching a video on his laptop. The audio doesn't sound like it's coming from the laptop. Speakers like this usually lack a bass presence and because of the distance between the laptop and the camera, the high frequencies will also be cut off a little bit. To recreate this effect, simply add a Parametric Equalizer to the clip and cut off the bass to around 200hz. To make the sound more muffled, cut a small amount of the high frequencies as well.

To take this effect to the next level, we can also recreate room reverb. The sound from the laptop also bounces off the walls and to recreate that effect we're gonna use the convolution reverb effect. Play around with the presets and there you go!

Creating an advanced underwater sound

To recreate an underwater sound effect, we first must understand how sound works underwater. When sound is traveling through air, we can hear between 20 and 20.000 Hz. Those frequencies don't have much trouble traveling through air. But underwater, there much more resistence for sound waves to movge. Only the super strong and low frequencies will be hearable. That's because the LOWER the frequency (Hz), the LONGER and STRONGER the sound waves are. When the frequency is HIGHER, the soundwaves are much SMALLER and will fade out faster. To the point: only the low frequencies will survive which is why we're gonna cut of the mids and highs. You can do that by adding a low pass effect and cutting off everything above 1000 Hz.

Click the link above to watch the in depth tutorial on how to create these effects! :)

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