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Cataloging natural sound - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
Cataloging natural sound
Natural sound, or nat sound, is an important part of storytelling. Videos that have no nat sound just don't work all that well. You expect to hear what you see. There are exceptions, music videos for example, but for the most part using nat sound under the narration is a given. You should also use full volume snippets of nat sound that help break up your copy. Doing so, will hold your viewers interest. One thing to keep in mind: it's not all that unusual to record nat sound of something but not actually have that thing in the video. You might have recorded the cry of a hawk, but did not have time to get it in the viewfinder, but that's okay. You can always use that video clips nat sound audio with a different video clip of that soaring hawk. Just as I do with sound bites, I create subclips of nat sound and put them into separate folder, in my video editor. I work with Adobe Premiere Pro, but other video editors have the same kind of feature. We're going to work with clips from the…
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