This is a simple stylistic effect that can be used to muffle sound on a clip. Watch your levels and make sure they aren't too far into the orange or red. Reminder! You don't want your audio to be too loud. Then you can adjust the volume of your clip on the clip itself. If you want the freedom to make your clips louder, like in this tutorial video, push the output gain all the way to 15dB. So if you have a loud clip you don't want going over -6dB, set output gain to -6dB, and that will put a limiter on your sound. Basically, it's a tool that can be used to increase or decrease the ceiling of your sound. Output gain refers to a volume level before processing. The Mastering tool gives you an option for output gain. If you want to easily adjust the audio for a clip, SonduckFilm says the Mastering tool is the one for you. You can use this to give the effect of a voice coming from just direction, for example, instead of head-on at the viewer. Using balance, you can change the "direction" of your sound by having it favor the right or left side of a speaker system. Stereo just means the creation of the illusion that sound is coming from multiple directions. The Balance tool can come in handy if you would like your clips to have more of a stereo sound. Options include settings for locations like "deep well," "theater," or "small room."
If, for example, you want to have two characters listen to music in a scene, and you're adding the music in post, you don't want that music to sound as if it's just laid over the video.īy using the tool called Surround Reverb, you can choose how you'd like that music to sound. The heavy noise reduction can lead to audio distortion, so use your best judgment with the level of reduction you choose.Īs the video points out, Surround Reverb is a great tool for blending effects and music, so any sound you're adding in post matches the ambiance of the scene. The tool has options for "heavy" or "light" noise reduction. Using the DeNoise tool, you can get rid of fuzzy background noise in your shots. It can be really difficult in imperfect locations to get totally clean sound. DeNoise is a super basic tool that most editors will know already.