Video is an art of vision and hearing. The background music of the video is different, and the effect presented is also different. Next, I will bring you the skills of video editing and soundtrack, and related content recommended for video editing and dubbing.
1. Video editing and soundtrack skills
When the soundtrack is selected when editing the video, half the success of the video is achieved. So how do you find the right soundtrack? Let me take VideoStudio as an example to share some tips with you.
1. Use keywords to search
Whether it is a mixed video clip or a commercial project, there are keywords corresponding to the video theme, from which we can pick out three or five core keywords.
2. Retrieve the soundtrack
After finding the keywords, open the relevant music platform and search by keywords. When downloading, especially when it comes to commercial videos, pay attention to the copyright information of the music.
3. Edit audio
Open VideoStudio , right-click on the blank space of the timeline, select Insert Audio, and import the downloaded music.
Figure 1: Insert audio material
2. Click the mixing button of the software, and a straight line will appear on the audio, which represents the volume of the audio. Click any point on the straight line and drag it up or down to change the volume at that point. In order to make the soundtrack more natural, we can drag down the points where the music starts and ends.
Figure 2: Drag to audio control point
3. In the upper panel, there are two tabs: Properties and Mixing. In the Properties tab, you can adjust parameters such as volume and channel, and in the Mixing tab, you can add stereo effects to the audio.
Figure 3: Setting Audio Properties
2. Recommended soundtrack for video clips
We generally make music for videos based on the content of the video. The content of the video determines the style of the soundtrack, and the style of the soundtrack can in turn highlight the style of the video.
The soundtrack can be divided into sound effects and music, and the sound effects include ambient sounds, transition sound effects, etc. When editing, adding sound effects such as wind, rain, and human voices at appropriate positions can make people feel more substituting; and music runs through the entire video, which can enrich the content of the video. The more commonly used soundtrack styles are: high-burning stepping point, soothing and gentle, shocking atmosphere, dynamic rhythm, relaxed and cheerful, etc.
These soundtracks can be downloaded on major music platforms and material websites, but you need to pay attention to copyright issues when using them. When searching for soundtracks, try to find some copyright-free music material websites. The specific download method is as follows:
1. After entering the music material website, you can enter the music name or theme keywords to search, such as background music, movie music, Vlog music, etc.
Figure 4: Enter keywords
2. In addition to searching by theme, we can also filter songs by genre, emotion, action, etc.
Figure 5: Filter music
3. After preliminary screening, we can play the music one by one, select the appropriate music, and click the download button to download.
Figure 6: Download Music
Many friends may think that this method is difficult to match the appropriate soundtrack for the video. Here is a little trick to help you quickly find the appropriate soundtrack.
1. Enter the homepage of the music website, and you can see many popular playlists and rankings. We can browse the titles of the playlists to see if they match the style of the video.
Figure 7: View the top list
2. If it matches, you can further filter; if not, you can enter the song list keyword in the search bar to search.
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This article introduces the skills of video editing and soundtrack, and the related content recommended for video editing and dubbing. If you are often exposed to video clips and don’t know how to make music, you can listen more and pay more attention to cultivate your own sense of music.