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[ADOBE TV Presents Colin Smith in...]
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Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium
is our video suite of applications and the 2 that I want to look at here today
is After Effects and Audition.
I want to show After Effects users how they can use Adobe Audition,
and also just a couple of tips for working with audio in After Effects.
We get questions all the time from users on "How do you hear things in After Effects?"
and "How do you scrub?" so we'll take you through that.
I also want to show you Resource Central.
You might not know there's an enormous amount of sound effects,
loops, and cool stuff free to download, so let's get started.
Okay, here we are in After Effects, and I'm just going to play my little piece here.
[audio with explosions and music]
Okay. So what you're hearing is a mixed-down file
which I'll show you how we made that in Audition--
placed back inside After Effects.
I wanted to show you this final version so you can hear how different it is
from the original.
Let's listen to the original.
I'll simply go over to my left-hand side here,
turn off the other track and turn on the original audio track
that came with that video file.
[audio of explosions]
Now, we get some explosions in there.
Most of them are completely clipping and overblown.
They were never meant to be there as the real sound effect.
They're meant to be replaced later on.
Plus, it just sounds lame.
I mean, you want big, magestic sound effects;
ones that have been treated and recorded correctly and professionally.
You'll also notice that this green line is in here.
That's previewing to RAM, so I'm hitting the 0 key on my numeric keypad
or you push the button up here in the top right-hand corner.
After Effects is a little different than something like Premiere Pro
where anytime I hit the space bar, it's going to preview the audio.
You need to preview to RAM first before you can hear the audio in After Effects,
and that's what we had happen here.
I just hit that Preview to RAM and then we play it back.
If you want to scrub, you'll notice that as I'm moving my marker,
of course, I can't hear audio, but if I hold down the Control key on Windows,
Command on Mac,
[audio of explosions]
I can now scrub and play that back.
And I could be scrubbing without using my key
and add that keyboard shortcut at any time
[audio of explosions]
and I'm starting to scrub that audio.
So a little thing that's maybe not easy to figure out,
but we've got it down there.
Let me just delete this track and we're going to take this out to Adobe Audition.
In the Edit menu, Edit in Adobe Audition,
so I selected that particular track, and when I click on this,
it's going to launch Adobe Audition and bring me in here.
And the first thing you see is the sound wave and the video file is here also,
but they're not playing together.
It's really simple.
We just need to make a new multi-track file, select both of these, click on this button,
insert into multitrack, a new multitrack session,
and I'm going to leave this at 48k, 16 bits for our video,
naming this just default there, click OK,
and now we're into our multitrack.
And we have a video window over here, so when I hit Play,
[audio of explosions]
we're now playing this back.
Any changes I make right now will be saved inside the file
that it's being replaced in After Effects, so they work hand in hand.
But I'm going to create a new multi-track mix inside Audition.
I want to replace every single one of those explosions
with new explosions, and Markers is a way that can help us do that.
You can add Markers on the fly, and if I just hit the * key
wherever I see an explosion--
so we'll just come along here
and you can definitely see some of the sound waves in here
and if you're looking at the video over there, you see an explosion,
so I can just press my * key on the numeric keypad
and I've added a Marker.
If we go to our Markers, you can name them, so lots of really great ways to get this done,
but I am going to open another project that already has the Markers inside it,
so there we go.
Each one of these Markers is now at a point where an explosion happens
either on the left side or on the right side,
and I'm going to drop in new tracks.
So Window menu, Resource Central, I've got this snapped over on the right-hand side.
Resource Central connects to the Cloud, so you've got to be connected to the Internet
because these literally thousands of files are up on the Internet.
So if I drag this out, you can see we have News, Sound Effects, Loops, and Music Beds
and these are all royalty-free for you to download and use.
I'm going to start by going to my Sound Effects
and we can actually type explosion blast
and it's going to find a number of these files already.
We have a bunch of different categories that you can go to,
but I'm going right to these explosions.
So if we click on the Play button here,
[audio of explosion] much better.
So right now, we're playing that back from the Cloud.
That's not local yet.
if I click on this little down arrow, it downloads it, has a little check mark here.
Now I can drag this directly into my multi-track and there's my new explosion.
So if I mute the original track that I have here and play this now,
[audio of explosion]
you see we get a really good-sounding explosion.
So that particular one--I'll be using this maybe a couple times in here.
And we will bring in some other ones so this one is [audio of explosion].
Well, that one's good.
Let's download that one, drop that in.
So you're basically just pulling these down, dropping them in place
and having those Markers really helps.
I'm hoping these are all going to sound good;
I mean, they're blasts, so let me drag them in.
Of course, I could take care and work a little bit closer on making sure that they sound different
and I think I'm missing one here.
Let me take that one up there.
[audio of explosions]
And let me drag that one back there.
Now I think I've got all of them.
[audio of explosions]
I could also take the time here and pay attention
to where the explosions are happening.
Remember, we've got full 5.1 mixing in here
or I could just use my stereo mixing, and if I open up my tracks a little bit--
I'm just using the scroll wheel on my mouse over the left-hand section here--
and opening this up so you can see our pan controls,
so if I've got an explosion that's happening over on the left,
then I could pan that over to the left, pan it to the right,
and pay attention to where those sounds are occurring.
Okay, so that is our explosions.
Now I'm just going to jump into our loops
and grab a couple of things inside here
and let's go to Classical
and I want the one TimpCello02.
[audio of timpani and cello]
Okay, so I'll download that,
drag that into here into a new track,
and this happens to be a loop.
That means that if I right-click and choose loop,
it'll actually see a little loop icon show up in there--a little badge--
and now when I drag this out,
it's going to continue that loop out seamlessly.
[audio of timpani, cello and explosions]
All right, and then we'll go to my Choir sound
just to give it a little bit of a difference--oh, let me just download that first.
And now drag that in and we'll play that back.
[audio of timpani, cello, explosion, choir]
Now that I've got my multitrack recording all set up and ready to go in Adobe Audition CS5.5,
I need to create a stereo or a 5.1 file to go back to After Effects.
I just want to show you that if I wanted to get everything out as stems--
separate files--you can do that.
In the Multitrack menu, export to Adobe Premiere Pro
and in here, I can export each step separately or mixed down to a certain file
and that can open Adobe Premiere Pro together.
But actually, we just want to get this out as a file
that we're going to import into After Effects.
So I'll do that by going to the File menu, Export,
Multitrack Mixdown, Entire Session.
And let's just put this in my drive right here
and we'll call that orchestra explosion, save that.
I'm going to change this to the same as before,
which was 48, click OK.
Everything else seems to be wonderful, and click OK.
and you can see how wicked fast this HBZ800 is.
It's just blazing fast, so let's go back to After Effects
and I'll import that file, so I can just choose File, Import or double-click in the bin
and I'll go out to my drive and find my orchestra explosion
and open that file up.
There it is.
Drag it down and notice the Markers were kept in,
so I had the choice to leave my Markers in.
That's each one of the explosion Markers--remember I have to preview to RAM,
so I click the Preview to RAM button
or hit the 0 key on my numeric keypad.
[audio of orchestra explosion]
All right, that's how easy it is to take some of the files that you're working on
inside After Effects whether this is an animation or motion graphics
or in our case, visual effects, and take this right back into Adobe Audition,
create multitrack, export it back out, and be able to hear this properly.
Adobe Audition is a great tool for anyone using either Premiere Pro or After Effects.
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