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OCR Nationals: Unit 22 – Creating Sound using ICT A03 – Create an audio clip Sound Editing & Effects

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Page 1: OCR Nationals: Unit 22 – Creating Sound using ICT A03 – Create an audio clip Sound Editing & Effects

OCR Nationals:Unit 22 – Creating Sound using ICT

A03 – Create an audio clip

Sound Editing & Effects

Page 2: OCR Nationals: Unit 22 – Creating Sound using ICT A03 – Create an audio clip Sound Editing & Effects

Introduction to sound editing

Professional sound editors:

• Clean up dialogue tracks

• Add layers of special effects

• Place sounds at certain times

• Cut out unwanted sections

• Mix in interesting sounds

• Cut pieces of vocals away or move them elsewhere

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Sound Editing includes:

Cutting Placing Fading Moving Duplicating Adjusting volume of audio material Mixing is also a form of editing often combining

two or more sounds files together

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Introduction to effects:

Effects are applied using the Effect menu

To apply an effect, you must select part or all of a track first

To select the entire track click in the grey area of the Track Control Panel below the sliders

Some effects have a preview button in the Effect dialogue box

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Introduction to effects:

Audacity has over 25 effects

Always listen to the audio selection before you apply the effect and again after applying the effect

Use the undo button or edit – undo to undo any effects that don’t sound right

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Create an audio clip

Trimming a track

Splitting a trim

SilencingCut,

Copy & Paste

Fading Changing Tempo

Amplifying Other Effects

Sound Editing

Applying Effects

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Fading

• Fade in gradually increases the sound – the sound increases progressively

• Fade out gradually decreases the sound – the sound decreases progressively

To fade in or out:

• Highlight a selection of a track

• Effect Menu – Fade Out or Fade In

• Notice the change in the waveform

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The ‘change tempo’ effect will change the length of the selected audio

The speed of the audio can be increased or decreased without changing the pitch

This effect can be used to ‘slow down’ speech that is spoken too quickly

Changing Tempo

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Amplifying

• Amplify changes the volume of the selected audio

• This effect can be used to increase or decrease the volume of the selection

• To reduce the volume: drag the slider so the amplification is a minus figure (below 0.00)

• To increase the volume: drag the slider so the amplification figure is above zero

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Other Effects

Try other effects such as:

• Bass Boost

• Change Pitch

• Change Speed

• Noise Removal

• Normalise

• Repeat

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Trimming a track

When a track is trimmed, everything to the left and right of the selection is removed

To trim a track:

• Use the selection tool to select the part of the track to be kept

• The area outside the selection will be removed

• Play the selection to make sure that the selection is the part you want to keep

• Edit –Trim

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When a track is spilt, the selected part of the track is moved to its own track, replacing the original selection with silence

To split a track:

• Use the selection tool to select the part of the track to be spilt

• Play the selection

• Edit - Split

Splitting a trim

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Silencing

Silencing can be created in 2 ways:

1. Select part of a track and silence it

2. Insert a period of silence into an existing track

Silencing is represented as a straight line in the waveform

To silence part of a track:

• Highlight a selection

• Edit – Silence

To insert silence into a track:

• Generate – Silence – the Generate Silence dialogue box displays

• Enter a number in seconds

• Click the button for Generate Silence

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Cut, Copy & Paste

To cut or copy part of a track:

• Highlight a selection

• Edit – Cut or Edit – Copy

To paste a copied selection into an existing track:

• Edit – Paste

To paste into a new track:

• Project – New Audio Track – Edit - Paste