From the course: Advanced Storyboard Pro

Audio effects stack - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Audio effects stack

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- [Instructor] Starting with Storyboard Pro version 20, the audio effects stack is a window menu of various effects you can apply to your audio clips. Let's start by opening our fixed stack window. Now, there are two ways you can do it. One is you can go to your windows and select effect stack. I won't right now, because I want to show you the second way which is over here in our tool menus. I can click on the plus and go to effect stack, and it pops right in. Now, Gain what you'll see is default. It is always there and it's always going to be on top. So let's take a look at some of the other various effects that are available to you. But first, we have to select an audio file that we know we're going to be working with. I can select it over here in my timeline. And then if you look up on top, it'll tell you the name of the file, Duke_traveling light, and this is in stereo and it tells me how long the clip is. I can listen to the clip with the little play button down here. - [Man] He must not be expecting us. - [Instructor] We know we have Gain which can adjust your volume. To add other effects, click on the little plus down here. So we have balance, delay, the high and low pass filters, pitch, shift, reverb, and volume. Let's just take a look real quick. So on balance, I can open that up. This will work on a stereo file and you'll hear a difference if you have different things happening on your left and right channel. You can adjust the volume up or down, between left and right. Let's add another one. Delay, this is an echo, the higher the number, the more of a delay. And then the decay is how quickly it goes away and then the mix which is default at 50%. The mix is how much of the original audio that we hear. So let's hear what this sounds like. - [Man] Must not be expecting us must not be must not be expecting must not be. - [Instructor] So we hear how long a delay that is, let's make that even bigger. - [Man] Must not be expecting must not be. - [Instructor] Yeah, a little bit bigger. All right, I'm going to turn it off by simply turning off the checkmark. Let's see what else we have. High pass filter and low pass filter. This means that the sound will be clipped. It won't show up, if it is above, whatever hertz you set this at. Same thing for low pass, it'll cut out everything below the low pass number. Pitch shift and I can set it for however high or low goes. So if it's a positive number the audio will run faster and it'll be pitched higher. Let's take a listen. [Inaudible] - [Instructor] It sounds like a chipmunk. Let's take it down into a minus just a little bit, not too much. [Inaudible] - [Instructor] Oh, that sounds like a nasty alien. The pitch shift I have found in this software does kind of give it a metallic or tinny sound. All right. I'll turn that off for now. Reverb gives it kind of an echoey sound of being in a big musical hall or something. Let's take a listen. - [Man] Must not be expecting us. - [Instructor] That's really cool. And then there's volume, which is the same as affecting your volume by raising or lowering the volume bar in your timeline. Now, in addition to turning on or off any audio effect with the checkmark, you can also right click over any of them. And I can clear that effect or I can right click and clear all the effects. I'll undo that. If I really liked the setting of this reverb and of course I have a lot of different things I can do on this. If I really liked the way it sounds, I can also right click on it and I can copy it so I can paste it into another audio clip. Now we've been wanting more control over our audio files in Storyboard Pro for awhile. And now with the audio effects stack, we have them.

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