Editing Post: Inserting sound

Editing Post: Inserting sound

Inserting sound into our film opening is one of our very last stages within the making of it. The majority of the diegetic sound was recorded outdoors with a field recorder. The non diegetic sound was produced entirely on logic. 

 The screen shot opposite shows the sound once we have added it. In order to add it, we selected the music note on the bottom right hand side of the screen and selected our sounds. However, we had a few difficulties in getting it to work. Unfortunately, the logic files kept on opening in Garageband which led to some tracks being distorted or not working at all.

 In order to over come this, we had to create new sounds from scratch. Although, this worked to our advantage as we were able to create the sounds exactly to our pleasing and measurement as we could see how it would fit our opening straight off. Once we were happy with them, we saved them and opened them in iMovie therefore allowing us to drag the tracks to exactly where we wanted them. We had to import our songs into iTunes beforehand, as we are not able to import songs straight into iMovie.

After adding the sound to scenes, we noticed that some audio needed to be cut down. To do this, we right clicked on an audio track and selected audio clipper in which it displayed the peaks of the sound therefore allowing us to trim the audio specifically to the scene.




We did encounter a minor problem through this process. We didn't want any sound from the actual footage as you could hear us saying "action" as well as being able to hear airplanes. To avoid this we muted all the footage and then applied our produced sound. However, when all sound was added none of it played. The screen shot above shows us unducking a particular scene which is what the underlying problem was the whole time. We then copy and pasted the audio settings - audio being unducked- to all the remaining scenes. Additionally, another problem being that our logic pro files always opened in garageband creating difficulties as synths were missing because it opened in a different software. To overcome this we had to separate the project from the actual composition and upload it to YouTube and then download it as an mp3 into iTunes, therefore we could easily drag our non diegetic sound into place.