- [Instructor] When we talk about working with sound effects
in the Essential Sound panel,
we mean anything from natural sound
that matches actions on screen,
to more abstract sounds like whooshes, swishes, and impacts.
Now, when working with dialogue in music,
I usually adjust all of these clips at once,
but with sound effects,
I much prefer to work on them individually.
The sound effect that I want
to work on in this exercise file,
is this helicopter sound effect down here,
and I can quickly move my playhead
to this point by double clicking
the marker that I've placed here.
And then I'll just press the Plus key to zoom in on this.
And if I go to the track where this clip is added,
and I'll just select it and extend it down,
I can see that I've already assigned this as a sound effect
because it has this explosion icon at the bottom of it.
I'll just select this clip to open up
its options in the Essential Sound panel.
And as with dialogue and music,
we have some familiar controls, here.
We have the Loudness section, and down here,
we have the Clip Volume section.
They're the same controls, except if I go up
to Loudness and click Auto-Match,
you'll notice that it's matched this to -21:00 LUFS,
which is slightly louder than the dialogue which was -23:00.
This is actually a little bit louder
than I'd like for my sound effects,
so I'm actually going to reset this
so that there's no loudness adjustment at all.
In fact, I think I'll just use the Clip Volume Level slider
down here to find the right level for this helicopter.
So, to do that, I'm going to solo the track
with the helicopter sound effect on it.
And I'm also going to solo the track
with the dialogue on it.
And just moving this slider around,
I'll find the right level for this clip.
(helicopter sound) - Patients dedicated
to military causes.
One thing that's common in--
- [Instructor] Okay, I think that sounds like a better level
to me, and it's not overwhelming the voice too much.
What is unique about these settings here
is the Creative section and the Pan section.
And I might just un-solo the dialogue
track so we can focus on these.
If I expand the Creative section,
you can see we've got a Reverb effect, here,
and we can select from any of these presets,
maybe something like the Outside Reverb
would be appropriate for our helicopter sound.
Let's have a listen to that.
(helicopter sound)
Yeah, that gives an interesting sense
of distance to the helicopter,
and I like that it's a stereo reverb,
so it makes the helicopter feel a bit more immersive
if you're listening with stereo speakers.
Which leads us on to the Pan control, down here.
And this is really just the exact same as the Pan envelope
that you'll find on each clip.
It's this blue line, here.
And if you can't see this, just go up to your View menu
and make sure you've got Show Clip Pan Envelopes checked.
And you'll notice that if I drag this slider around,
it's actually moving that blue envelope
around in my clip, as well.
Because the helicopter that I've added this effect to
is just slightly to the left of the center,
I might try to replicate that with my mix by also moving
the panning slightly to the left, as well.
Let's have a listen to how that sounds.
(helicopter sound)
And you can see, down here on my meters,
that there's more sound on the left speaker
than there is on the right speaker.
(helicopter sound)
And that's how we mix sound effects
with the Essential Sound panel.