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Imagine a video on a timeline: the video is on top, and the audio is on bottom. You can of course just straight-up cut both the video and the audio at the same time then place another clip next to it, but for a soother way to make video, J-cuts and L-cuts are essential and fun to mess around with.
An L-cut is when you cut a piece of video, but the audio is not cut until later (an example is when he says "aw look at THAT" from one clip on 0:05, and the audio sort of lingers on from the first clip despite the cut to the next).
A J-Cut is the same thing, except the audio of the next video comes first, THEN the video appears. (0:13 when he says "I don't think he's dusted there for months" from the next video clip despite the previous clip lingering on for about a fifth of a second).
Thank you so much for your question. I love answering questions like this. :)
It might take some finagling, but if you are willing to try, Audacity might be able to strip the vocals out.
Purchasing model is weird. You can subscribe and have access to songs, but need to maintain the subscription during creation to be able to sell them after creation. Impractical for games where you're frequently updating.
This is only clear in answers from the faq but no clear license for the songs. You also may need to have special handling to sell your game:
> Can I use Filmstro for my Short Film? > > Yes. ... If you distribute your film to TV or other commercial exploitation then the new owner of your film will need to clear the Soundtrack. Check out our Pricing page .
> Can I sell a Wedding Video to my clients if I used a Filmstro Soundtrack in it? > > Yes. If you had a Filmstro subscription at the time of creating the video then you have paid us to use Filmstro. Therefore you can sell on the Soundtrack as part of a Wedding Video.
Edit: I had confused free and royalty-free. Fixed. These are definitely not free.
Well, one way would be to visit a stock music site, search what kind of music you are after and use it. There are a few great gems even in the free category, if you look long enough! The more ideal way is to hire a composer. However, it also does take longer than just downloading some tracks online, so you have to make sure you have the time to give to the composer to come up with a great track. For reference, I score about 1-2 minutes of film per day, so a 7 minutes long film could take from 3-9 days, depending on how accurately you and your composer communicate your ideas and how skilled the composer is, of course. Hopefully that gives you some idea over what to do.
Some cool sites for you to look into should be Pixabay (music section), Music-bay.net, filmstro.com, artlist.io and this one has some free music too - royaltyfree-music.com
Apply the effects to the audio track mixer inserts rather than to the clips themselves. There is a tutorial here:
https://filmstro.com/blog/how-to-remove-background-noise-in-premiere-pro
Specifically this is because the noise reduction effect is adaptive, so has to 'listen' to the audio for a fraction of a second before it knows what is noise. This process has to be repeated at the start of every clip.
It looks like you’re doing it right. Have you gone into the effect and actually configured it? You can open the VST editor by double clicking the effect name.
You should probably only apply denoise to the individual tracks rather than the master mix though.
There is a full guide here on using denoise with the track mixer here:
https://filmstro.com/blog/how-to-remove-background-noise-in-premiere-pro
Incompetech (free)
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
Sound Image (free)
YouTube Music archive for creator (Check your creator tab.)
FILMSTRO
I use Filmstro for royalty free music. You can get 90 second clips in many genres.
They have a paid tier where you can modify the tracks intensity, etc. But most tracks are free to download and are even YouTube approved, many YouTube personalities use them.
I got my (royalty free) intro music from Filmstro. They have paid plans but I believe you can download 5 or 6 for free, so if you just need 1 or 2 songs, you could listen to as many as you want and just use those few downloads strategically.
Youtube audio library is a good source too. I don't think they limit your downloads.
I'd choose better music. (I'd recommend https://filmstro.com/, it costs money [$15 for a YouTuber for one time use] but 100% worth it, I used it for some of my projects). Other than that it looks really cool! :)
Where are you looking?
The kind of style/tone I'm thinking of is here: https://filmstro.com/music/bells <- go there, and click on the track 'Caspian'. Or https://filmstro.com/music/pizzicato-strings <- go there and click 'Gambado'. You can slide the 'Power' button on the right up and down to add a bit of extra instrumentation (I recommend it for 'Gambado' especially). To me, that seems to suit it more. Try playing one of those whilst your trailer runs on mute and see what you think.