- [Instructor] When we talk about working with effects,
we mean anything from natural sound
that matches actions on screen,
to more abstract sounds,
like whooshes, swishes, and impacts.
Now in the previous videos for dialogue and music,
we selected all the clips on the track,
and adjusted them all at once.
But with sound effects,
I much prefer to work on them individually.
For this example,
I'm going to work on the sound effect
for the helicopter here.
I'll just go down to my sound effects track here,
sound effects 02.
And to make this bigger,
I'm just going to make sure I have the track selected,
and I'll use the shortcut shift-/,
and now it's much bigger.
I'll also zoom in with the plus keys,
so I can see this a little bit better.
There we go.
(helicopter whooshing)
And as we're well familiar with now,
I just need to select my clip here,
go over to my assign track type,
and I'll choose sound effects.
And then I'll get this little icon down here.
What do you think that is?
Maybe, an explosion or something like that?
So as with dialogue and music,
we have some common controls here
that we've already seen before.
We have the Unify Loudness, with our Auto-Match button.
And we have our Volume down the bottom.
And these are the same control,
except with the Auto-Match button here,
what it's actually going to do is
match everything to -21 LUFS,
which is actually slightly louder than the dialogue,
which was -23.
So I'm not actually going to use the Unify Loudness option
at all in this case,
because I actually want this sound effect
to be much softer than that.
In fact, what I'm going to is
turn on the volume control here.
And I'm just going to slide this down,
because the helicopter effect is a little bit
too loud at the moment.
So while playing this back,
I'm just going to solo this here,
so I can listen to the sound effect.
I'll also go up to the top,
and I'll solo Mike while he's talking.
And we'll just try and find
the right level for this helicopter,
adjusting this slider here.
(helicopter whirring) - [Mike] Stations dedicated
to military causes.
One--
- [Instructor] I'll just play that again,
to check that that's okay.
(helicopter whirring) - Stations dedicated
to military causes.
One thing that's common in--
- [Instructor] Okay, now I think
that level sounds much better.
What's unique about working with sound effects
in the Essential Sound panel,
are these two sections here.
We have Creative,
which is actually just the reverb effect,
which we also saw over with the dialogue settings.
But the only difference is here is that
our presets aren't actually describing places anymore.
They're actually a little bit more abstract than that.
And we actually have this one here, Outside Reverb,
which might work really nicely with our helicopter.
So I'm going to select that,
and that automatically checks the reverb
to add it on to my clip here.
And I'm going to play this back while adjusting this slider.
This will control how much of the reverb
is being mixed into my audio.
(helicopter whirring) - Stations dedicated
to military causes.
One thing that's common--
- [Instructor] Okay, I'll just play that again.
- (helicopter whirring) - Stations dedicated
to military causes.
One thing that's com--
- [Instructor] Okay, that's a really nice effect.
And it gives a really interesting sense of distance
to the helicopter.
I like how it's actually a stereo reverb,
so it makes it almost immersive to listen to,
especially if you're listening on a stereo speakers.
And speaking of which,
that actually leads us logically to our last section here,
which is the Pan control.
And here we have a slider where we can pan things
to the left speaker,
or pan them over to the right.
And the truth about this slider here is
it's really just controlling your pan envelope down here.
This blue line across here.
You'll see, if I move this around,
I'm really just moving that line now.
But what is handy about having this here,
is if I look at my helicopter,
I can see it's actually a little bit to the left
of the center of the screen.
So actually adjusting the pan a little bit
to the left as well,
it's going to give that helicopter a nice sense of space.
Let's have a listen to how this sounds.
(helicopter whirring) - [Mike] Stations dedicated
to military causes.
- [Instructor] No, I think I've actually pushed it
a little too far to the left.
Let's bring it back a little bit more.
(helicopter whirring) - Stations dedicated
to military causes.
One thing that's--
- [Instructor] Okay, that really does give it
a nice sense of space within the stereo mix.
And for those of you out there listening on mono speakers,
probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
So that's it for sound effects.
Let's move onto the last element in our mix,
the distant cousin of sound effects,
which is ambience.