In this tutorial, we're going to be
talking about adding music to your project.
And the key things I want to teach you are
one, where can you find free music
or high quality, but inexpensive music
for your projects,
and then next, how do we add it to a project
and specifically, how do we shorten a song.
A lot of times,
our video isn't going to be the perfect length
matching up with a song
so we're going to have to cut it shorter
and I'll show you some tricks on how to do that.
So we get a sequence that looks something like this
where here, down below, you see actually
Goodbye Summer, this is the song we chose,
and Secret Conversations.
We're using both of these songs for our project.
So first, where do we find free music?
One place is the YouTube Audio Library.
If you sign into your YouTube account,
which you'll have to sign up for,
and then go to the Creator Studio
and then down under Create,
there's this Audio Library where you can search through
and find all kinds of free music.
You can search by genre, mood, instrument, duration,
also attribution.
Some of these songs, you can use for free
on whatever project,
other times, you have to give credit to the actual author
by crediting them in your video
or at least in the description of your video
wherever you upload it.
Another place that I like is audiojungle.net.
This has a bunch of good music
that is relatively inexpensive.
$10 to $20 seems to be the range for most songs
and they have a lot more, higher quality
and different music than you can find for free.
So those are my two resources that I go to
when I'm trying to find music which
although it is not one of my favourite parts
of video editing,
it is something that I find myself doing often
as the video editor for projects.
So let's get back to Premiere Pro
and I'm just going to actually move this music
that I already added over to the side
so I can start from scratch.
The thing about music is that
it can really add a lot to your video.
Audio is so important and music can make a
scene seem more exciting, more happy, more sad,
more dramatic, more suspenseful.
So music is an important part of video creation.
You don't necessarily always want to have music.
It's sometimes good to actually not have music
to make a point stand out
if someone's saying something very important,
just let them talk without music.
But for a short documentary,
having nice music throughout is a good idea
and changing up music also makes it even better.
So in this little piece,
even though it's only a minute long,
we're going to have a transition
from a happier song
to more of a sadder, dramatic song
because there is a tone shift
in what Anthony is talking about.
I've included some music that you imported probably already.
These are songs from the YouTube Library,
so feel free to use them in whatever project you want.
I'm going to start with the Goodbye Summer track.
So I'm just double-clicking it to open it up
in my source monitor.
Then I'm going to play with the timeline up here,
go to the very beginning, set my in point,
start playing it or just go forward just a little bit,
and then set my out point.
And all I'm doing is just taking a little bit of it
so I can then bring it down onto my actual timeline.
So I'm going to do that.
I'm going to drag it down to my timeline.
One thing that I already did before this lesson
was I went to my audio track mixer
and I changed the level of track 3 and track 4 to -20.
When you add music to your project,
look at your audio track mixer,
play through it, and see what the decibel level
that the voice and the music is balancing around.
You see the voice over here balancing around
6, -10, -15.
And then the audio for the music is balancing around
24, -25.
In general, you want the music to be
10 to 15 decibels lower than the vocal or the voice
of the interview so that the voice isn't drowned out
by the music, so adjust accordingly.
And I did that for both track 3 and 4
so that I can add two songs and have them
sort of fade into each other.
So we have this song and if we play through it
and listen to it on our track,
we'll see that it actually adds a lot to this interview.
The same year I was diagnosed, that summer
the whole ALS ice bucket challenge--
It's happy, it's exciting.
Anthony's talking about something that is exciting,
the ice bucket challenge.
Ugly, you know and that doesn't--
So he's happy this whole time
and then it kind of switches his tone
when he gets to this point when he talks about
To me, meant that I wasn't alone.
For a disease that literally will take away my voice--
So when he talks about
for a disease that will literally take away my voice,
that's when it takes a dramatic shift
and that's where we want to transition
into another song.
And we're going to do that with the
Secret Conversation song.
But first, we need to end this Goodbye Summer song
and we could just fade it out,
that's something that we could do,
we can just bring it in to this point on the timeline,
add a default transition,
and fade it out,
or we can try to end it with the end of the song.
Sometimes songs have a nice ending
where it sounds different,
it's more of a closure to the end of the song.
So we might want to use the end of this song.
So what I'm going to do is take my razor blade tool,
pressing C on my keyboard,
just make a cut, right around here.
It doesn't really matter where it is right now.
Then I'm pressing Y on my keyboard
to bring up the slip tool
and I'm going to click this clip,
the second part of the music,
and drag to the left all the way until the end of the song.
And you can see from the waveforms that
this is the end of the song.
For a disease that literally will--
Then we have to find
a place where these can match up.
Thankfully, this song is relatively repetitive,
so we just have to find a beat
where the song will look good or sound good meeting up.
I'm going to solo track 3 and track 4.
I'm just going to make the videos even smaller
so I have more room for the audio timeline.
And actually, right now I'm going to put this
second part of the song on track 4.
So solo 4 and 3 and then extend this part of the song
over this first part.
Now we have our two music clips kind of overlapping.
We want this second part to end right about here.
So let's hear what Anthony is saying.
To me, meant that I wasn't alone.
So we can fade out when he says
I wasn't alone, right about there.
And then we're just going to tweak it.
So we're gonna zoon in here
and see where the beats of the song are
and you can see it just from the spikes on the waveform.
So in this top one, we see a beat here, here, here.
On this second part, we see beats here, here, here.
So I'm guessing that if we match up one of these beats,
something like this,
where there's a beat there, a beat there,
it might sound good.
And to test it out,
I would just play it with these two overlapping.
It's a little bit off.
I see as I zoom out that actually,
there's beats here, here, here, here, here, here,
so that's what I'm going to line up.
So I'm just selecting this second part of the music clip,
pressing command and right and left arrows on my keyboard
to nudge it to the left or right.
And now I can play through it.
It's pretty good, maybe nudge one frame to the right.
That sounds really good.
So now, we just have to cut this first clip,
probably right about here.
And the second clip right about there
and just drop the second part on top of the first part.
Delete this part and now if we play through it,
we need a little bit of a transition
so just right-click, apply default transition.
That sounds pretty darn good
and especially when we have the vocals on it
or the interview.
Because it's ugly, you know and that doesn't go viral
but as soon as somebody does something random and fun,
it goes viral and so that's what I did.
That sounds great.
And now it just fades out
exactly where we want it to fade out.
Then we can just quickly take the Secret Conversations song
and I'm just going to take the last part of the song
so I'm just gonna go on the timeline up here
towards the end, set an in point,
drag it down here to track 4.
You can see with this song,
it does have more of a dramatic fade-out right here
so with the waveform,
it goes and then right around this point,
it fades out.
So I'm gonna put this point
right at the end of my audio,
right about there.
And then it kind of fades out with just a couple
guitar beats at the end.
So with my razor blade tool,
I'm going to cut that last part,
apply that default transition.
Just fade it out at the end
then extend it.
Right about there
to meet up with this audio.
Just have a nice fade-in
with the default transition.
That I wasn't alone.
For a disease that literally will take away my voice,
for a demographic--
And this song seems to be a little bit louder
and you can tell by the waveform.
It's a lot bigger than this one over here.
So we're going to actually go to the audio track mixer
and drop this one down to maybe -25dB.
So just play through it one more time
Just insane.
The biggest thing to me meant that I wasn't alone.
For a disease that literally will--
And I think that sounds good.
The transition of the music definitely amplifies the
emotions that we're getting in the film itself.
Thank you so much for watching this video.
If you have any questions about adding or
editing music to your own project,
let me know, but for now your action item is
to choose one of these songs
or find another song on the YouTube Library
or if you do want to purchase a song
on AudioJungle, you can.
But find some music that you think makes your video better,
add it, edit it to your film, and we'll go from there.
Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lessons.