00:00.00 alifeinruins Welcome back to episode one sixty nine of a live newss podcast. It's just me David and you listening unless it's a few people and you're screening dirt somewhere in ah the desert or in the middle of the woods full of poison ivy um I ended the last one talking about the full circle shit. Um. But I want to continue with the like the editing and stuff like that I know if you've tuned out ironically because I'm talking about how I communicate that's fine and if you're still engaged literally anything you're doing like if you're in cerm if you're like I said crunching numbers. There's something you're going to need to learn. And like whether that's excel or Microsoft Access or I mean Google docs or something with that There's always a way to make that more efficient and to Google how to do it and like. I think a lot of people get bogged down with doing tutorials and like how do I start this or you like I was saying what that they animating but really, it's just your and you're asking questions like how do I make this thing happen. How do I make this fade to black. Okay. I want to add fire on top of the video um so I have to find a video of fire but then one that has a green screen too where you can take out the cuts called key color key and you essentially that's what a green screen is you tell the computer. 01:30.84 alifeinruins This pixel like that exact color and you can add a little range to it take that out and that's how like Marvel movies are made and like how iron man's flying. It's just like the the computer that's what's such a solid green and like vibrant color is so that it can easily be distinct or you can easily. Differentiate it from the subject and the you know the background and all of that then requires lighting and that's all stuff I had to learn too but green screen like that. That's a major thing especially with what I do and i. Like how the hell do you do that and I just googled it and it's apparently really easy and um from there. Um I would say the number 1 thing if you're gonna I'm going back into the media now if you're going to make videos or want to. I mean if you just want to succeed in whatever business you're in I think everything's going to be needing video at some point or it will help you stand out so I'm just going to talk on my expertise on this I wouldn't say expertise just experience is that what expertise means like experience latin. Um, yeah, so I wanted to let's say for example, go with the flame thing I found a flame like ah, there's stock footage websites like storyblocks. You've probably heard of that as a sponsor on some videos and it's a website where you can type in cows. 03:04.89 alifeinruins Black man harvesting corn and then like you know, maybe not add that but I literally type that and cut it out. Chris um, you can type in cows or you can type in like weaving or I can type in native american or I can type in birds and it will show you specific stuff or like mushrooms. And our ocean or ships and you can so pick from different things different options download that and add it onto your video and then I think it's like three hundred and fifty bucks a year not my favorite price but it works. Um, so in that flame like I downloaded a video of like sparks. It's animated. But there's a background that's a green screen to it. So maybe it was actually sparks and there's a green screen behind I don't know I tell the computer pull out that green color in Adobe. You just go you add the effect go to the effect panels put it on there. It's just like excel when you want to insert a table. It's that easy like you just click a button Google it k figurere it out now I have flames. But then you also need to add sound and sound is something that is really important honestly, if your video is shitty but your sound is good. That's great and if your like your lighting is also really important too. But that adds to a shitty video. But sound um is of like the utmost importance because that's like what like put it this way when you watch like a murder mystery doc sometimes you'll hear like the recording of somebody like on a tape and then there's just like an animation of like a wavelength and like a picture of. 04:39.82 alifeinruins John Wayne Gay or something like that. You don't need video like it helps watch but the sound was what matters that's the content. Um, but in this case like I wanted to immerse somebody into the video like the k-man skits that I do and so I had those sparks fly up and I had them over top of the video. It goes like. And I had to look up kw whooshing sound or like like I couldn't it's hard to describe on a on apeas in letters. But then I have something called epidemic sound which is also it's a stock sound website and you can look up stop music or stock sound effects. Sorry. Um, and yeah so I looked up like I forget what I found but you can pick through a bunch of stuff and then you add that underneath the video of the flames. Um, and by underneath I mean look photoshop if you're familiar with it and powerpoint. Do you have the text layer. Then you add graphics on top. Everything's layered and that's how everything media-wise works. Um I mean editing audio is a little different but detracting from the the flame example so I keyed out the color of the flame right? The green screen. So now there's just sparks overtop my video and then. On top of the video sound that I had I add this like the whoosh sound so that way or oh is like Torch that's what it was I typed in torch sound. It's like so not only does that visualize okay like fire cave in like the cave background is what is on the background when I'm in the video. 06:12.82 alifeinruins The Wosh sound like adds to it and sound I don't think you realize how much it it immerses you into stuff if you sit and listen think about this planet earth when you watch those there is no sound that is all added later There's no way with how far they are from those ants or how far they are from a polar bear. They're not going to get its like feet like crunching on the ice. That's all added later with stock sounds. But I'm sure with the Bbc or whoever makes planet earth I think think it's Bbc um, they probably have very professional people who go out after that polar bear has moved. And like make that same sound in that area or in a studio somewhere. But the reason planet earth is so immersive is the video and like the drone footage is amazing, but it's the sound that immerses you and you don't think about it and every video like movie you watch the sound is of the utmost importance like. I can't even describe it like we just saw oppenheimer and of course like the visual of a nuclear bomb exploding. How do you do that without a nuclear bomb Christopher Nolan had to I believe he used fire and ping pong balls and then added a bunch of lights and colors to it. Ah and put it in like a. 07:27.20 alifeinruins Forget how you but even but like essentially with like smoke or steam or something I don't know how he did. It was all practical effects that was his his setup so you don't think about that stuff when you're watching and how do you replicate the sound of a nuclear bomb and especially in the the movie if you haven't seen it obviously they make a nuclear bomb. It's the point of it. Blows up and then there's the I guess it's the doppler effect or just ah, the speed of sound is different than the speed of light. Um, the bomb blows up and for about 30 seconds to a minute I think in the video or the movie. You don't hear the sound of the bomb or none of the like the shock wave of it hits. So. There's so much tension in the movie and when it explodes Oppenheimer's like when he's watching it and that's all you feel because in that moment or here sorry Oppenheimer is like literally I am become death destroyer of worlds like he's like what have I done like. Holy shit this thing works and it's going to destroy everybody and the point like kind of like Jurassic Park you didn't stop to think if you should but you still like only wanted to know if you could um and I'm I'm getting away from the sound thing but that this will make sense maybe a full circle I don't know that you're feeling with him. In that sound when he's breathing like the anxiety and the oh my god and it's silent and you're like with him and my heart was pounding because you knew this was coming and then they add this is interesting. They add the actual clip of Robert Oppenheimer 09:02.90 alifeinruins Saying I am become death destroyer of worlds from the bavaga Bavad Gita um it's the hindu bible script thing. Um, and ah yeah, and he the dude spoke and could read sanskrit. It's pretty crazy. Um I'm getting away from the sound you're you're sitting there in this silence with him. And like with all the people watching the bomb test and Josh Peck hits the button to detonate it. You're seeing the bomb explode with him right? and the bomb back there. It's like a crazy like bright light and you're ah, Christopher Nolan just killed it in this movie. But the sound wave then after Oppenheimer and you are sitting there in the silence of there's like the and like the bomb hits you in the theater and in the theater Christopher Nolan's whole goal was that like the whole theater would rumble. It hits you because you're literally being hit by the shockwave of the bomb with the characters of the movie. So it it immerses you and I don't think you realize how much sound matters and like when Chris and Rachel edit our podcasts like you got to put a lot of care into it so you would think like it's just a track of me talking. But they also have to like cut out ums cut out stuff that is irrelevant. Um, usually when I say something and then in the video or in the recording right now when I mess something up I'll be like oh hey Chris hang on cut this out and then 3 2 1 so Robert Oppenheimer 10:33.64 alifeinruins And that way when you're editing you can see like it's a lot easier to to edit sorry so they're going to edit that out. It's a lot easier to edit because it's not like um sorry I messed up. Um, so Robert J Oppenheimer that's hard to edit. But if you take a minute to pause stop. And then say so Robert J Oppenheimer it's easier to to stitch that together and a lot of things like that. You just don't think about and I'm sure you guys are all familiar with the person. The boom guy in movies. He holds a giant pole with a big like fuzzy sock on the end. Above the characters. That's a shotgun mic and what that does and there's cardio mics which is a heart shape and then there's shotgun mics and the direct it's the directions of the sound that it picks up like I'm speaking into a sure smseven b right now like a rogan mic. And I'm speaking directly into it. That's this kind of mic but a boom mike like a shotgun mike has to be able to get the voices of 2 characters talking while it's way above their head. So the technology of that mic has to to get all that detracting again that boom guys holding a pull. And attach that pole is a wire an xlr cord which then clips to a sound recorder usually a Zoom. Um, your zoom is what it's called the brand and that is where the sound of the movie is and like there's a sound guy in the sound editing team and this is why movies win Oscars for the sound and I'm sure Oppenheimer will that then and you hear you see the movie. 12:05.78 alifeinruins Like the classic cut or sorry action. Someone says action hits the clapboard that actually one tells the person in the video kid this is scene 1 take 7 or whatever but that clap when you hit it is so that when you add the video track and the soundtrack to the. Like go to edit it. You can find that little wavelength um in the video where you hear the the clap and you can add that with the clap in the video so you can synchronize it now. The software can do it on its own. It can figure it out but that's how it used to be done and it's also just a solid frame of reference. Because it can't get it exactly to the point so someone has to go in there and like molecularly move it to that. So and that like your mouth might not be moving. It's really uncomfortable when you're watching something where their mouth isn't synced to how they're talking um or how it sounds it's annoying so that's something like. I get fixated on when I edit videos. Um, because I have the camera recording. But then I have a shotgun mic above me if I'm doing a skit or um, floating head thing or when I'm podcasting obviously right here I'm talking into the mic. Um. I hope I hope this is interesting to you because I love this stuff and can talk about it all day but sound there's stuff called Foley and you're probably familiar with this one lady she's Foley artist I think she's from Spain or italy she is like the the most known person in hollywood for like doing stuff so like in sex scenes in a movie like. 13:36.28 alifeinruins They're not really holding the microphone to the the bed like getting the creaking of it because it's not going to be the best sound so she'll actually in the studio take a chair or something and hit it really hard on the floor or against the wall or on you know to some object to make that sound. And have a really professional mic with that and they add that sound later just like I was talking about in Planet Earth The sex scene reference is pretty common because it's like she always posts that because it's funny and it's is awkward but ah, stepping on ice. Walking on so davy Jones with his peg leg or barbosa with his peg leg on pirates. The Caribbean someone has to add that sound because the camera is not picking up that like wood on wood sound that's coming from a you know a sound after a post. It's edited in Post. Um. 14:25.34 alifeinruins That's fun and then so lighting is really important with video in the lecture lighting isn't too big a deal because the whole lecture room is lit and it's lit so that you can see the projector and the the presenter I wasn't too worried there but in a cave video like a skit that I do. I have to 1 add what's called a key light on me and that is right now above me right here ° angle towards my face and that adds light fills my face with light and if you don't. I can't really describe how important light is until you realize how important light is it. It makes the difference between good video and not and you'll see some youtubers start out with just their cell phone talking into the um that sounds old with their iphone talking into the camera. And they'll eventually add like a lav mic which is the mic that clips to your lavalier clips to your shirt. You probably see that in interviews all the time and they're like oh how do I button this up and then they'll switch to then it drastically looks different. They're set and you'll see in the background. The set has now more depth to it. They added a plant. They added like some. Led strip lighting or they added ah you know even a ring light which got pretty popular during covid because of Zoom and everyone needed to be lit up a little better and you've probably seen a ring light and girls doing makeup videos or dance videos and stuff I see that a lot. Um and things like that like I would watch like makeup tutorials on Youtube. 15:53.56 alifeinruins To figure out like how they used lighting and that I forget what else I used makeup tutorials for there was something that like I was thinking how would I learn that and I was like okay that that subject would probably have that or. People that do videos on like tech stuff how to zoom in on something. Um, probably I lost myself. But also you I have the key light on my face which creates a light on my face right? But then the other half of my face past my nose is going to be dark. So either. You have to have a big white sheet right there that reflects the light and remember light is waves so it comes off of and bounces off of things so you can put a white sheet or a white. You've probably seen a big white like foldy thing I can't describe it or they hold like a big metal thing I can't. Or you have a fill light which is just a secondary light that puts the outside of your face. It adds depth to your face. Um, and if you're not sure what I'm talking about just Google good lighting versus bad lighting and you'll see exactly what I mean it makes all the difference and that's something that's really important in my videos because. Have to have the light on me to distinguish me and then I have to add a light to like the side light and the light the key light sorry on my main face and the fill light on the side that is a less powerful light that just kind of fills in so it's not the dark side of the moon on my other side of my face. But then. 17:22.80 alifeinruins I have to separate myself from the cave background and again this is all like overwhelming information. But I learned all of this over the years doing it to make it better and um I'm going to go over this segment a little bit but we can I cut the next one short cut that out. 17:41.70 alifeinruins Over the years I made it better and the the backlight behind me then separates me from the background kind of like I was saying with the green screen and if you've noticed behind people or and there's also a hair light is what it's called to if someone is lit from behind. Like the light is facing towards the camera I'm sorry like if I'm sitting in the cave right? The cave that I made I have to put a light behind me so you can see the light spilling over my shirt which much like here you go bring it full circle wanting to add the the but um. 18:18.40 alifeinruins Was it the stroke over the words on a meme right? The black outline in the text makes all the difference when you're reading it so you have to add an outline to your body to distinguish you from the background and that's what ah a backlight does so on top of that I was like okay damn got me lit. How do I add. Fire fire flicker to this because that's the main part of the cave if I'm in a cave I searched for weeks on how to do this and it is very very rare in movies that they they do it in ah a practical way with actual fire because it's hard to control the lighting. Um, some people use a light with a flicker switch on it like just an orange light that flickers it looks like fire. Probably it's not the best way to do it and you can probably now animate fire on like a flicker on top of somebody I don't know but it's the realistic way to do it I could not find how to do it I could not and then I thought. Where in movies like in a prehistoric setting. Would you see fire. So I watched um Klan a cave bear and then I figure out what the other one is ah something about quest for fire and then I was like oh shit dances with wolves they're in tees and um. So I got the Dvd and I watched the background this movie. It is really old of me watch the the extra scenes or whatever the behind the scenes and I saw what they were using was that flicker light. Um, but they had like a different thing on it with smoke in front of it or something like that to make it more natural and I was like oh damn and then my neighbor. 19:50.55 alifeinruins Added a flame flicker light to their lantern on their front porch those led flame light bulbs things and I was like oh shit. So I then got that and I found a essentially like a reverse chandelier. It's like um, it holds up 6 light bulbs right on its little stand. And ah, it's supposed to probably hang down but I have it sitting up and I got 6 of those led bulbs that all flicker at different speeds and stuff and I put that in between so the fill light. The key light are like on the sides of me the little flicker lights are right in front of me beneath the camera frame. That are flickering on my face so that way I'm lit up like and I'm in a cave and it looks natural and that's all stuff that if I on square one was like how do I how do I film a cave scene I would just jump because it is like no way. Ah jump I would just be like I'm not doing this like I'm out I'm gonna go do accounting There's no way to do it and you just learn it over time. Um, so keep that in mind and I'll come back into the next segment stay tuned.