All right.
Now to the voiceover and music.
I spoke about the voice over quite a bit in the brief,
so I'll try not to repeat myself too much, but essentially,
I don't need to be scared of using your own voice
or be a good exercise to time that animation to the recording.
In a real world scenario, you almost certainly won't
have the final voice over the animating too.
And if you do, that would be a rare treat.
But using something, even if temporary, is important,
and if you'd prefer, ask a friend or a colleague to record one,
they'll almost certainly be very flattered.
So besides recording one yourself, I'm
going to recommend some other resources as well as a site called Voice, a 123.
com, which I used to get the voice over recording for my what is good
personal project now.
That was many years ago,
but I use this site to search for a voice actor and people have their profiles here
with examples. Let's take a look at a Jesse Carell.
How does he sound?
The Wall is a state of mind
thinking differently, embracing creative self-expression.
All right. And Julie Shields won that
two wheels.
Sounds like some voice of acting to me.
And I think they cater to a lot of budgets as well.
So if you want a professional voiceover
that's relatively affordable, here's a place you can do it.
Now, as I've been recording this course, my voice generation has become more
and more popular, and by the time you watch this, probably even more so.
So I tried a few options where I could sample for free
what my voiceover would sound like recorded by AI.
So here is one option.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C..
Okay, this is on natural rediscovery.
Didn't sound that great, to be honest.
This one's from big speak.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese, as that one sounds even worse.
This one's a voice maker.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C.
possible, maybe, but no one here is good at recording it on your own.
But I'm sure with some digging you will probably be able to find one,
but you may have to pay a subscription.
I think it's easier to just do it yourself now.
I have recorded my own. Here's what it sounds like.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C.
Now, to avoid confusion of me
using my voice to edit my voice and then time animation to it.
Throughout this and next week's lesson,
I have pitch shifted mine down so it sounds much deeper.
Here's what that one sounds like.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C..
Now does sound a little funny, of course, but I think that will be helpful.
So you can distinguish between what I'm saying and me playing the recording.
Now we're going to edit our voiceover, so I'm
going to drag mine into a new project.
I'll put it in the voiceovers folder and we'll create a new comp with it.
I'll check its settings just to make sure it sounded good.
I'll just call this one Moon Cheese Animatic.
Now, AfterEffects is not the best audio editing software.
You could edit it in any software. Really.
Premiere audition Audacity of Effects would normally be one of the last of words
I would use for audio editing,
but we are going to have to move the audio file around and retirement
with animation anyway, so I'm going to do it quickly in here
and there's not much we need to do except for remove takes that I don't like.
So I'm going to bring up the waveform just by hitting l
raptly twice on the keyboard.
So it's l l i Now we can see our way from here and we can play it back.
To be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C.
and as a whole.
So I'm just going to listen through this once
and then pick out the tapes I like because I believe I say two or three times
throughout this.
All right.
So I kind of like the first half of the take from this point on here.
And then I like the ending here.
So I'm going to split this layer,
which we haven't done before, and that is the shortcut control shift.
D So instead of control D O Command control shift.
D which essentially just splits the files here.
So I'll hit let's bring up that waveform.
I can just drop it here and slide this over.
The moon was first theorized to be made of cheese as far back as 1000 B.C.
and this whole cheese variations became popular.
The created surface of the moon looked increasingly suspicious.
However, after.
Only two spaces. Add a little bit.
Let's bring these both at the start.
Be suspicious, however, after a small expedition.
Now this gap here is a little too long.
So I'm going to split that layer here as well.
Just bring this one a little closer to the left.
7%, a sad day for mankind.
Oh, I think that's sounding good enough for now.
Now, if you want, you could render this out
just as one sound file so you don't have multiple layers in here.
But we're going to be pushing these around a little bit more
once we get the style frames in and we start creating a animatic.
So I won't do that just yet.
But know that you can, if you want to render as a wavefile or an MP.
Three.
I also would recommend using wave files instead of MP threes as well,
because after effects occasionally finds it difficult to read MP threes.
I'm not exactly sure why,
but sometimes I drag an MP three file in and it does apply.
But I've never had that issue with a wavefile
and let's put a animatic in outcomes file two and save this project.
Okay, now for music.
Now where do we find music that we can use in our projects?
Well, I happened to have a subscription to Epidemic Sound.
That's a very popular choice for for music on YouTube videos.
I got a lot of my sound effects and music and background music from here,
but there are plenty of other options available.
There is Art List another popular one and music bed.
All I believe have subscriptions where you pay a certain amount of dollars
a month and get unlimited access there.
But today
we're going to choose to search for music and download it from envato market.
Look at this one
I have definitely used in the past to get music for client projects
and it's been used at multiple studios and they give you a watermark sound.
So I can safely include that in the project file as well.
And then I will just render it using the purchase one.
So here you can buy licenses for one track.
You don't need to buy a whole license and it says here from as little as $1.
Normally they're a bit more expensive than that, but still pretty affordable.
If you are using music a lot in client projects,
I would recommend getting a subscription to another service.
But if you just want a one off track, Envato market is a pretty good place
and regardless,
you should definitely be passing
on that cost to the client, including it within your budget.
I wouldn't itemize it saying music equals $50, just bump up the price a bit.
Now you're going to have to pay for the music.
Now, free options, of course, I'm going to show you some free options.
There is the YouTube audio library.
You probably have to create a YouTube account
if you don't have one already, but this is specifically music to be used
on YouTube for free, so I have plenty of options here.
How does this one sound?
That sounds pretty good.
Does it sound too much like commercial stock music?
Not too bad.
And I believe it's a pretty big library as well.
These are ones just added this month.
I should also mention Kevin McCloud, whose website in competition
has all of his music.
His music you will have definitely heard before is an absolute writing machine.
He's written probably thousands,
maybe tens of thousands of royalty free tracks and has plenty of genres here.
Here we've got one for a silent film score.
How does that sound?
All right.
Not too bad.
Maybe not for us, though.
And again, all of these you can search pretty easily.
Also, Pixabay.
Here's one that has royalty free music.
You can download these on sound it pretty good.
As far as free stock music goes,
they do have a specific license or wherever you use.
I would just check to make sure the license suits you,
Make sure you can use it for commercial projects.
If you're using it for a client
or whether or not you have to attribute it to music.
Now, if you're making a personal project, having an attribute
and putting that in the description underneath is fine.
But if you're making it for a client, that probably isn't going to be possible.
Okay, now let's go back to Envato and let's find a track to use.
So let's go into the music section and let's just try it corporate.
Let's go straight into corporate, see how that sounds.
And you can see the tracks are like $9.14, $6 audio jump.
Oh, that's very cool.
Fred.
Now there's something about these tracks that just make my skin crawl.
They sound so corporate and artificial, it's distracting.
So the hardest part
about finding appropriate music is finding one that feels like actual music.
So let's go back to the music category and we want something a bit mysterious,
I think something a bit science fictiony because we've got the moon in there.
So I want some,
I suppose, electronic music elements and I don't want it to uplifting.
A lot of the music is super happy, but the end of the script is the line.
A sad day for humanity, so I don't want to be too positive.
So let's just search for sci fi
and this is probably going to bring up some sort of epic trailer music as well.
But let's take a look and see how they sound.
That was not too bad.
Okay.
Far too intense for us.
And one thing to note is that animation is going to be 30 seconds long, Max.
A lot of these tracks are, you know, 2 minutes plus.
So we didn't need all the track to sound perfect for us.
This little quiet section in here, this little bridge might be perfect
for us, so don't discount the whole track just because the intro sounds off.
If there's something about it you like, maybe there's a different part of the song
that you could enjoy.
And I like to add ambient in here.
That's kind of what we want for our track
as is going to sit in the background behind our voiceover.
We don't need it, you know, bringing attention to itself.
What do you.
Got? And
mysterious sci fi ambient sounds a lot like what we want from the description,
but this is probably a bit too dark and menacing for how video
footage
This one's kind of interesting.
And that audio jungle voiceover that's the kind of audio watermark
that you're going to get in all of these tracks.
So we might be able to work with this.
Let's download this one and I'm going to find a bunch of options as well.
If music is particularly prominent in your animation, it's good to get client
approval before doing any significant animation to the timing of that music.
I would normally provide a couple of options to the client and ask
which one
they would like, essentially giving them four different versions of the animatic.
And if they don't like any, I would even ask the client to pick music
that they like from a playlist or select on whichever website music platform
you choose.
Because if they choose the music, they're going to be much
less likely to want to change it down the line.
All right.
So I've gone and chosen four different options here and downloaded them.
Haven't paid for these yet. They still have that watermark on there.
Let's just add these to After Effects project
so we have them ready to create a animatic with which will be.