When you’re starting out in video production, audio equipment, and techniques often go overlooked. But, good audio is essential for any video. A low-quality video is watchable if you have exceptional audio, but a great-looking video with bad, unintelligible audio will just get skipped. In this class, I wanted to distill 10 years of my knowledge working with audio as both a music producer and videographer into a compact class, that will get you up and running with audio equipment, and enable you to achieve great sound, no matter where you are and what gear you possess.
In this class we’ll talk about:
- What creates noise in recordings, and how to avoid the most common sources
- How to properly set up your recording equipment
- Different types of microphones and how to place them
- How to sync your audio
- Different types of audio setups, starting from zero dollars
- How to apply noise reduction, and balance the dynamics and the frequencies of your recording.
I’ll be using Premiere Pro for editing my audio, but the techniques I describe are universal and can be used in any editing software.
I hope you enjoy this class, and have as much fun watching it, as I did making it.
Fun fact: I made the background music for this class, so I’m proud of that too.
