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Hi there, in this video we're going to bring in some audio.

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We're going to put it into some folder.

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We're going to bring in some music...

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and look at where to get some of that for free.

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And then we're going to balance it so that my voice isn't so low...

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and the music is down a bit...

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so you can hear underneath me, let's hit it.

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The Value of Sleep for Creatives.

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It's made me sound a little more like I know what I'm doing.

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Anyway let's get on with the chorus...

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so I know what I'm dealing with, most of the time.

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Okay, let's deal with audio properly in this video.

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So we're dealing with a voice over, that's me.

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Obviously, if you're doing your own voice over...

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it makes it easy, if you've got a half decent mike...

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it's pretty easy to do...

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but probably you're going to be like most people...

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and hate the sound of your own voice, me included...

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but it was cheaper to do my own voice over...

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than paying somebody else for this exercise...

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so you got stuck with me.

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If you're doing a higher talent...

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what I do is I go out to a site like Fiverr.

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Fiverr is a site, you're meant to pay $5 or Euros.

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And it's what people will do for $5.

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This guy will do a voice over here for US $5.

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That's the Euro translation, or the currency exchange.

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And if you click play, you can listen to Todd.

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Hello Todd.

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Great!

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So he'll do that, for $5, a certain amount of words.

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It seems cheap, but bank on it being about $25-$50 depending.

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Because he might say he'll do the first 50 words for $5...

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or the first 10 words, whatever his rates are.

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And you might have to go further than that.

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And if you want it done, like he'll say it's $5...

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but I'll do it when I get around to it...

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maybe a week, or if you want it done straight away...

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you might have to pay another $10.

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It kind of adds up.

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And by adding up, 25 bucks is pretty cheap for a voice over.

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So just have a go through, and decide, do I need a Caribbean voice over...

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or do I need this guy, or that guy?

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He has a great, like normal voice.

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If you need somebody who's Irish...

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if you need somebody who's Australian...

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or English, just type it in up here.

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I just typed in 'voice over' to get these guys.

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It's amazing what you can get done, quite quickly, and cheaply.

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So we've got our voice over, back to After Effects.

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So when you are working with audio...

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especially a voice over, often you need to time things to it.

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You can see, I've added little markers down here.

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We'll look at these markers a little bit later on.

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I've added them here, so at this early stage...

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we can add our Infographics at different timing points.

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But if you need to edit audio...

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what you really need to do is, something on Audition, it's down here.

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So I've recorded into Audition, and did any edits...

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so I cut out all the ums and ahs, and made it sound half decent.

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In Audition, if you need, you remove background noises.

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The air conditioning noise, something like that...

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that's the job for Audition.

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And I'll do a course about that real soon.

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And we've got our mp3s, it's come through.

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One of the things you might want to do is...

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see I can twirl down this little arrow here, and go to Waveform.

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Waveform is really handy, you can start to see where the breaks...

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in the language are, you can see the pause there for a little bit.

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So you can start timing things, like...

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I'm probably starting to say something about here.

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I'm going to hit space bar.

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You can see I've got the beginning of the conversation there.

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I often have this open when I'm trying to...

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time Infographics to an audio file like this.

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So I'm going to twirl it up at the moment.

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Now one of the big things is...

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you wouldn’t have seen, I had that open already but...

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when I hit Play for this, it's quite quiet.

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You won't really notice it when you're working on your projects.

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You need to check, whenever you bring in audio...

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to check whether it's at the right level.

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You don't want to send your Infographics somewhere...

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and people be listening to it...

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and it either blow their ear drums out...

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or just be really, really low, and they raise the volume...

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and in the next video, it blows their ear drums out.

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So you want to get consistent, there's a world of consistency sound.

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And it's between -6 and -12.

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Minus is weird, huh?

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Just about it works from 0 being the highest...

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and we work down from that.

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How to check? It's quite easy.

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Go to 'Window', down to 'Audio'.

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Or in my case, there's that little gap there.

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And this little guy is what we're going to be watching for.

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And see the gap between -6 and about -12.

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If I hit space bar, watch it.

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See it bouncing down here.

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It's bouncing too low.

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You want that little line to be bouncing anywhere...

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between here and here, is a good kind of general range.

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And you kind of see red, but...

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yellow, just okay, but in here is the sweet zone.

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All you need to do is, have it selected.

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And what I might have to do is...

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if you've got it locked, like the last video...

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unlock it, select it, and just yank it up a little bit.

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And then see how it goes. Hit space bar.

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Not bad, I'm going to get it a little bit higher.

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It's bouncing in that right kind of sweet zone, you can see there.

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It's a little perfect.

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But that's going to be great for me.

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Next thing is, let's bring in the rest of the audio.

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We can go to 'File', 'Import', 'File'.

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It's a long way, there's a shortcut.

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'Command I' on a Mac, or 'Control I' on a PC.

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We use that loads.

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To be honest, I never use it.

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I just double click in this big gray area here in my Project window.

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So just double click, that's the shortcut to it.

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I find it quite quick anyway.

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So these two files, go to your exercise files.

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And under 'Icon Pop', '01 Icon Pop', bring in 'Blip.mp3'.

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And double click it again, let's bring in a second file.

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It's just under the root, 'Infographic Exercise Files'.

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It's called 'Background Music'.

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We're going to use these on...

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all the different exercises that we do.

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It's on its own folder, and all these files here...

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they're next to all free...

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because somebody like Wistia have given them out to us.

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So Wistia is W-I-S-T-I-A.

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Go check out them, they've got some free background music...

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that I saw they were there...

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and I appropriated it for some of my projects.

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The other ones in here, I found Shutterstock.

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It's a stock music site.

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And I've paid for them.

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Actually these ones are the preview versions...

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so what you'll notice is that, you'll play it for a little while...

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and it all plays happy music, but then, part of the way through...

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it says "Shutterstock music'.

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Kind of ruins the mp3 for you, so that you go off, and pay for it.

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You're not allowed to use these commercially...

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any of the Shutterstock ones.

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But you can kind of see here...

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this one here is the Wistia Learning Gallery.

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They allow you to use it for commercial purposes.

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I'm going to use Interlaken Crossroad.

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At this stage follow me, you can pick a different one, of course.

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But I've done this project obviously...

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and tried to find something appropriate.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add it to my Comp.

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You can do it a couple of ways, you can drag it down here.

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The only problem is, if you drag it down here...

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see that little Playhead there, the blue thing...

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if you drag it there...

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it kind of starts way out here.

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So it doesn't start till I get...

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So you've either got to drag it down here...

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just make sure it's at the beginning...

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or just drag it into the center bit here...

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and it just goes in right at the beginning.

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So couple of things I would like to do.

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I would like to create a folder in here, put in my audio in.

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Often, if I'm doing Infographic...

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there will be a files folder, an audio folder, a video folder...

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and I leave the Comps just out of there...

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so I'm going to create this one here, this one's going to be audio.

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I'm going to stick you, you, and you in there.

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And we'll make 'Files'.

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Files is just like any static images, and any other weird stuff I get.

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And you notice when you create a new one...

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let's put it inside the file, so we can fix that.

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This one's going to be any video.

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This project's not going to actually hit somebody...

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but let's get something good going early on.

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So, that's my files.

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One of the other things is, if I hit Play now...

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you can see, they're all kind of battling it out.

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The voice over here, Value of Sleep, is at the same level as the music...

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but they kind of fight it out when I start talking...

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so I'm going to lower the volume of this music.

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So with it selected here, I'm going to do...

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the opposite of what I did with the voice over...

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and lower it down. How low?

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Just keep dropping it down.

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That feels good.

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So just keep lowering it down until you feel like...

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That works for me.

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So, low as you go, it's really just the balance with that...

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whatever has to be the highest, which is going to be our dialogue.

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So I'm going to lock these two here...

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so we don't mess around with them...

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and we're going to move on to the next video.