Sound

Sound editing is the process of cleaning up audio, adding effects and music, and performing any other sweetening that your audio may need. Editing your sound is a great way to get evenly mixed audio that sounds professional.

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Intensify Your Video with Sound Effects and Music

Great video is just the beginning of a well produced project. Well placed sound effects and music can help provide context for your scene, and give your character's action more meaning. In this segment, we walk through the process of adding sound effects and music to help intensify a scene.
Hits and Impact Sound Effects

Jordan Claverie - Wed, 05/15/2013 - 10:53am

TV and movies aren't reality, regardless of what they tell you. Enhanced reality might be a little closer to the truth, or not.
Editing Tip: Streamline your audio editing using premiere and audition

A quick video tip on streamlining your audio editing workflow using integration between Adobe Premiere and Audition.
Diegetic Sound

Jordan Claverie - Tue, 03/26/2013 - 5:05pm

Diegetic sound is used almost every time someone tells a visual story, whether on big screens or small. Don’t go running to Wikipedia just yet – we’ll explain.
Matching Action Cuts Like the Pros

One thing that separates amateur videos from professional videos is shooting a scene from multiple angles and cutting on the action. Cutting on the action is an editing technique where the editor cuts from one angle of a shot to another, while maintaining the continuity of the action in the scene. In this segment, we'll show you how we cut four different camera angles together to form one continuous scene.
Audio Location Scouting

Jordan Claverie - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 11:21am

Here’s the scenario: You recently replied to an audio gig posted on craigslist. It’s set to shoot next Tuesday and the producers just hired you. In your email information packet, they list three locations and the addresses. One is indoors, one is an urban downtown setting and the last is on a wooded walking trail just outside of town. A quick look at Google Maps verifies the locations and now you’re wondering what challenges each will bring, and how to deliver the very best quality audio. You need to do a location scout, only this time it’s for audio.
Fix It In Post - Sometimes it's a Good Thing

Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:00am

Have you ever heard the phrase, "We'll fix it in post?" Depending on how you tackle it, that line could be your worst nightmare or your best friend.
Sound Effects Every Audio Editor Should Know

mhageman - Wed, 10/31/2012 - 9:06am

Using a simple audio effects software in your video editing program, every audio editor can learn a few simple filters and effects to match even the best sound effects library. These four will get you started.
Audio Editing Software Buyer's Guide

mhageman - Mon, 09/17/2012 - 10:34am

Audio has always taken a back-seat to video in the consumer’s mind – in fact, people did not care that the very first movies were silent because they had moving pictures to watch.
Capture the Best Sound with Advanced Audio for Video

mikerosen - August 23rd, 2012

Videomaker has released a new DVD to help videographers, filmmakers, teachers and documentarians capture the best possible audio for their video productions in the recording studio.