For the next section, we are going to need another software program if you don't already have it.
This is a must have.
You're going to need to go and get audacity.
It's a free program and it's a very powerful sound editing program.
The way you get it is you just go to Audacity team, Doug.
Just go to that website and you'll be able to download Audacity right here.
You check that out, there's lots of features that we'll be using as we get into our Lip-Sync with Achelen,
we will be doing double system sound where we'll be recording our dialogue separately or at the same
time as our live feeds app.
And we're going to need to think them up later so that we have full control over the audio.
So pick yourself up this copy here and also check out the website.
There is also a manual which will cover all the things you would need to know in more detail than we're
going to go into in this course for audacity.
So go ahead and get that.
Download that and have that ready to go for the next part of the course.
OK, now let's jump into audacity and let's just get right into it and learn how to do a few things
real quick with a fast start, we want to find out how to record an audio track or an audio sample.
So with your program open and your microphone connected up to your computer.
You'll be able to select your microphone right from here, and I'm using the blue Snowbowl microphone
right now, so make sure you have a microphone selected and your speakers set up for playback.
Turn your speakers down when you're recording.
And this big red button, the record button is what we want to do right now.
So let's just do a testing.
One, two, three, real quick.
Like we'll hit the record button.
Testing, one, two, three.
Press stop.
And now we'll go back.
And we will play this testing one, two, three.
Testing, one, two, three.
OK, that's how we record dialogue or any audio track.
Now, how do we get it out of here?
We just go to file.
Export.
Export is MP three wave, we're going to use the wave format because we want to import that into a cyclone,
so we just select that.
It's going to pull up our save window, give it a name, test, audio.
It pulls up another box, so if you'd like, you can put in all your information in here to keep track
of.
The year, the genre, you know what it's called and all that kind of stuff, and then just click,
OK, and you just exploded that track and we can import it into a clone.
Now, the next thing we want to do, let's go ahead and add this little X here.
We'll just go ahead and get rid of that so we can start fresh.
Let's record a track that we can use in a cyclone to do Lip-Sync to.
So what we're going to do is we're going to actually be using our face app, this is one method that
we're going to use to use the the live face app for our iPhone, and we're going to be lip synching
back to a prerecorded dialogue.
You'll find yourself in this position sometimes and you'll then find yourself sometimes in the position
of recording your dialogue live while you're doing it with the iPhone as well.
And we'll do that next.
But we're just going to start with the simple things and move from there.
So let's go ahead and we're going to click record.
I'm going to wait so I can collect a little sample without any audio first, because we're going to
use that so we can do a little noise reduction and then we're going to just use our best cartoon voice
and we're just going to say a simple line of dialogue.
Hi.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
OK, so do that, just like that in your best, funniest looking cartoon boy, funniest looking, funniest
sounding cartoon voice.
Just go ahead and and do that.
And when you have it completed, we are going to continue on to the next step.
And what we're going to do is we're going to normalize our audio.
We're going to get it as loud as possible, and we're going to reduce any background noise that we have
in this particular clip.
We're going to clean it up now with your audio recorded.
The first thing we want to do is go sample a piece of this.
This noise that we have here, this background sound, so we just go ahead before our clip starts,
just click and drag with your left mouse and then go to effect.
Into noise reduction right here.
And we want to tell Audacity to get a noise profile.
Would you select that and it's going to sample this piece?
And now what we want to do is select our actual sound clip.
The whole thing like that go to effect in noise reduction.
And I usually get a pretty good result with the default settings here, but first go ahead and do a
preview.
Hi.
Those just give you a little bit of a preview sound, I'm going to go ahead and say, OK, and if you
notice the little squiggly lines along here before and after are now gone, if we play our clip.
Hi.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
OK, it sounds really good, really crisp and clean, it took the little bit of background noise that
I had that would be any air conditioner hum or any auto car kind of thing in the background.
It works pretty well for that.
The next thing you can do to enhance your dialogue is is select.
The piece of dialogue and go back up to effect and go to normalize.
This is set at minus one decibel.
You can preview it.
Hi.
My name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking.
So what that does is watch what when I click, OK?
It just it makes the audio as loud as it can possibly be, spy going down to normalize.
And we didn't really see a visual jump, but if you've recorded this dialogue and it's a little softer,
it's going to bump it up as loud as it can be without distorting it.
I find that between the two things in audacity, using the normalized and using the noise reduction,
you're going to get about 90 plus percent of the way.
There was some good, clean dialogue for use in your in your animations.
From there we just go file.
Export export is wave.
And I've got my audio files here, I'm going to call this I'm a funny
looking guy.
And now I have this piece of dialogue ready to import into Achelen, which will do next.