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The importance of ambient audio

The importance of ambient audio

In the world of low-budget video, it's actually not video that's the biggest problem. It is audio. Audio is the dead giveaway that something is just a really poor production. Try that next time. Next time you look at an independent film, see if you can stand it if the audio is bad. Chances are you will not be able to. You might be able to find a lot of independent movies that you can tolerate if the video is bad, even if the quality of the video is poor. But if the quality of the audio is poor, there's no tolerance for that. So, in this chapter, we're going to look at the powerful world of audio. In this movie, we're going to talk about something called ambient audio. Now, in our main project here, early on in this training series when we were talking about the Razor tool, we split this main clip of this interview here, this guy's interview, we split this up into several little segments, where he says something and then there is a break and then he says something, there is a break…

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