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0:00look all editors understand that there
0:02are five aspects which make an amazing
0:03video you've got pacing creating
0:05interesting intros animations and
0:07engagement music selection but there's
0:09also this sound design and we all know
0:12that if we wanted to make an amazing
0:14video we need to be the best in all of
0:15these now what I don't understand is why
0:17is it that we pay so much attention to
0:19the first four and then give the least
0:21amount of importance to this last one
0:23sound design is one of the most crucial
0:25aspects of video editing and
0:27unfortunately I've seen way too many
0:28editors that are amazing at animating
0:31but just don't know how to bring their
0:32animations to life using sound design
0:34that's why in this video I'm going to
0:35walk you through everything you need to
0:37know about sound design in 2025 we're
0:39going to be collecting your own special
0:41sound effects back we'll be taking you
0:42through the three-step sound design
0:44workflow and at the end we'll even go
0:45through and sound design this entire
0:47short over here and here's a quick
0:49snippet of what you'll be able to do by
0:50the end of this video your most
0:52important asset as a video editor is
0:53your personal brand let me explain so if
0:56you guys are ready let's dive straight
0:57into mastering sound design in 2025
1:01before we collect our highquality sound
1:03effects Library first we need to
1:05understand what kind of sound effects
1:06we're going to need as video editors and
1:07you're going to learn this with
1:08experience but most of the common sound
1:10effects that you're going to be using
1:11are things like whooshes risers hits
1:16clicks gears and other sound effects and
1:19that's exactly why we need to create our
1:21own highquality sound effect Library so
1:23let's head over to your desktop and
1:24create a folder called sound effects
1:26we're going to be using this folder a
1:27lot in our three-step sound design work
1:29and inside this fold folder we're going
1:30to create a folder for each kind of
1:32sound effect we're going to need so a
1:33folder for whooshes one for risers and
1:35hits one for clicks one for Gears and
1:37one for others later on the video I'm
1:39going to teach you how you can use each
1:40of these sound effects in your videos
1:42but for now we're going to need to fill
1:43these up look we want to collect the
1:45best of the best sound effects out there
1:47and the easiest way to do this is to
1:48search up for a sound effect like
1:50whooshes for example and go through 100
1:52but only select 10 highquality sound
1:54effects the reason this works is because
1:56it forces us to choose only the highest
1:58quality sound effects which in return is
2:00going to make our sound design higher
2:02quality because the quality of your
2:03sound design is determined by the
2:04quality of your sound effects someone
2:07quote that now how do we find high
2:08quality sound effects you really have
2:10two directions you can go either free
2:11sources or paid sources the free sources
2:13are okay but they won't give you as many
2:15options or as high quality sound effects
2:17as you'd want these are sources like
2:18YouTube or YouTube Sound Library whereas
2:20the paid sources are going to give you
2:21access to way more sound effects and
2:23much higher quality ones and these are
2:25like epidemic sound or artlist.io I
2:27personally use epidemic sound so I'm
2:28going to leave an affiliate link down
2:29down below so you guys can get a free
2:317-Day trial but now that we understand
2:33sound effects a bit more let's go ahead
2:34and create our own highquality sound
2:36effects pack starting with the wooshes
2:38I'll head over to the epidemic sound
2:39search bar and search up for the term
2:41whoosh now once I've had a look around I
2:42can also look for other Niche down terms
2:45like electric whoosh base whoosh fast
2:47whoosh or whatever comes to mind but one
2:49thing you have to keep in mind is that
2:50you can only save 10 of these so choose
2:53the 10 best ones and make sure to
2:54include a variety of fast whooshes slow
2:56whooshes and different kinds of sound
2:58effects but with that done for our
2:59whooshes we can now move on to risers
3:01and I'll do the same thing once again
3:03search up risers and have a look around
3:04and once again only make sure I pick 10
3:06then I'm going to continue doing this to
3:08the hits gears clicks and other sound
3:10effects that we have and after doing
3:11that we should have a library of 50 or
3:1360 highquality sound effects and if you
3:15did this right you'll never need to
3:16update your sound effects library ever
3:18again but now that we have collected
3:19sound effects what do we do with that
3:21this is where we're going to dive into
3:22how we can use the pack that we just
3:24collected to sound design our video
3:26using our three-step sound design
3:28workflow
3:31let me start by saying that the
3:32three-step sound design workflow is a
3:34workflow I've used to sound design
3:35basically any video and it all starts
3:37with step one sound designing movement
3:39the first step is to always bring
3:41movements to life movements in a video
3:42without sound design are very dull and
3:45very useless so to bring them to life we
3:46use whoosh sound effects that mimic the
3:48air passing by which actually kind of
3:50correlate to a movement
3:52happening but what kind of movements are
3:54we talking about movements are basically
3:56anything that moves on in or out of the
3:58screen so things like popins from the
4:00top left right or bottom or pop outs
4:03from the top left right or bottom or
4:05even movements inside the frame like
4:07this one and even Zoomin and zoom outs
4:09all of these can be brought to life
4:10using whooshes just take a look at the
4:11difference between this animation
4:13without sound
4:14[Music]
4:16design and with sound
4:20design now how do we actually apply step
4:23one the apply step one we're first going
4:24to watch through the entire video and
4:26look for any movements that are
4:27happening on the screen just like this
4:28movement over here and and once we
4:30notice this we're going to go and find
4:31the right whoosh with the right length
4:33and right volume and drag it in but now
4:34we Face another problem how do we match
4:36our whoosh to the actual movement
4:38happening on screen it's a very simple
4:40solution we'll just take the peak of
4:41this sound effect and align it with the
4:43fastest point in the animation or the
4:44point with the most motion blur this
4:46aligns the highest point in the sound
4:47effect to the fastest point in the
4:49animation and it's going to be synced up
4:50and this would be the first thing I do
4:52to sound design a video just watch
4:53through the video look for any movements
4:55and bring in whooshes and align the
4:57Peaks to the peak of the movement this
4:58will give the video the Bas sound
4:59effects that set the tone for the
5:01movements which on top of these we're
5:02going to be building the rest of our
5:04sound assign and that is where we get
5:05into step two step two is taking care of
5:07the so-called textured sound effects now
5:09this in my opinion is the most important
5:11part of sound designing a video because
5:13although step one lays out the base this
5:15is what adds flavor to the video
5:16textured sound effects are sound effects
5:18like clicks UI sound gear electric
5:22sounds and so on the reason we call
5:24these textured sound effects is because
5:26they are what adds texture to the video
5:28how the heck are we going to know where
5:29to add texture to a video well in our
5:31library we have a collection of clicks
5:33gears and other sound effects and the
5:34first part of the process is identifying
5:36what needs to be sound design anything
5:38like text animations line animations
5:40icon animations basically anything that
5:43isn't sound designed with a whoosh is
5:44going to be our Target then based on the
5:46animation we can choose to either use a
5:48click or a gear sound effect or even mix
5:50up both for a brand new feel so check
5:52this out if we're watching through this
5:53section right here and you guys can see
5:55I've already sound designed the movement
5:56but there's an animation that doesn't
5:58have a sound effect this this letter
5:59popping effect is a good opportunity for
6:01us to include a nice textured sound
6:03effect so I'll sit here and think okay
6:05what kind of sound effect fits this
6:07animation and the first thing that came
6:08to mind was a mechanical sound effect to
6:10make it look like these letters were
6:11physical Keys rotating out so I'll bring
6:13in a gear sound effect from our gear
6:15folder and align it with the animation
6:16and this will make our title animation
6:18look like this your most important asset
6:20now you guys are going to learn a lot
6:22more about this process once we actually
6:23apply this to our edit but the whole
6:24premise is to look at an animation and
6:26give it a certain texture using sound
6:29effects like in this section here where
6:30we have this graph animation we can use
6:32it to bring in some electric and UI
6:34sound effects are mastering video
6:35editing and holding or in this section
6:37here where we have the selection
6:38animation we can use this to bring in
6:40some UI sound effects go over camera
6:42movement point is this is where you get
6:44to stylize your video using your sound
6:46effects and now that we've set up step
6:47one our whooshes for our movement
6:49animations and even set up step two our
6:51textured sound effects for our other
6:53animations what's next step three is
6:55where we introduce emotional sound
6:57effects if I wanted to sum this up I
6:59would describe as creating emotion in a
7:01video using sound effects because this
7:03is the stage where we use certain sound
7:04effects to build up our viewers
7:06anticipation or allow them emotional
7:08rest during a certain section of the
7:10video what do I mean by this there are
7:12parts of the video where a viewer needs
7:13to feel a certain kind of emotion
7:16perhaps we just revealed something big
7:17so we need him to feel like he
7:18discovered something new or perhaps
7:19we're building up to the climax so we
7:21need him to feel suspenseful point is
7:23these emotions are usually achieved by
7:25using certain sound design techniques
7:27and they are mainly made up of risers
7:30hits and sometimes other sound effects
7:33as well risers build up the viewers
7:35anticipation so we can use them when we
7:37want the viewer to kind of build up or
7:39feel suspenseful and hits shock the
7:41viewer so we can use them when we want
7:42to reveal something or come to a
7:43realization with the viewer and the
7:45reason this is the final stage is
7:46because this is the stage where you wrap
7:48up everything all together and with that
7:50being said that completes our three-step
7:51sound design workflow where in step one
7:53we bring movements to life using mushes
7:55and in step two we add textures to other
7:57animations to bring them to life and in
7:59step three we introduce the emotional
8:01aspect of the story by using risers and
8:03hits and if we are able to complete all
8:05three of these man our videos will sound
8:07insanely good and our viewers are going
8:09to love the content but with this being
8:11said we finally collected our
8:12highquality sound effects back and we've
8:14learned the three-step sound design
8:15workflow it's time to apply all this
8:17information to this short over here
8:19we're going to be watching through it
8:20and adding in our whooshes we'll even
8:22analyze each animation and add the right
8:24textured sound effects to each one and
8:25we're going to finalize this short to
8:27get this amazing sound design timeline
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9:49to sound
9:51assign but first we're going to need to
9:53find the right music track finding the
9:55right music track is all about the kind
9:57of feeling you want your short to give
9:58off if you you want it to be serious and
10:00sad then you look for tracks that place
10:01you in a state of sadness if you want it
10:03to be interesting and mysterious then
10:04you can look for tracks that make it
10:06sound interesting and mysterious and
10:08epidemic sound really helps with this
10:09because you can choose from one of these
10:10moods here to find songs that fit your
10:12video so I'll drag this soundtrack in
10:14and place it correctly and play through
10:16important asset as a video editor is
10:18your although this track is nice it's a
10:19bit more exciting than what we were
10:21looking for so let's go and remove it
10:22and I think I've got a better idea of
10:24what would fit here let's go over to the
10:25documentary section in epidemic sounds
10:27and these are music tracks that are used
10:28for docum dentaries so let's download
10:30this one right here and if we add this
10:32in you'll notice it fits really well
10:34into our video of three layers the front
10:36end the transition and the back end so
10:38let's just go with this one all right
10:39now that we finished our music selection
10:41let's get straight into sound design
10:42it's time to use our three-step workflow
10:44and we obviously need to start with step
10:45one which is sound designing the
10:47movements and as you guys remember the
10:48concept for step one is to just sound
10:50design all the movements that are
10:51happening on the screen so I'll first
10:53look through this section here as you
10:54can notice it starts off with a pretty
10:56quick zoom in early on so to allow the
10:57viewer to hear this movement I'll go up
10:59to my sound effects pack and drag in my
11:01wosh sound effect and it's pretty easy
11:02to see where the peak of my wosh
11:04currently is and as I play through this
11:05zoom in you can see the point at which
11:07it's the fastest so for that reason
11:09let's align the peak of the sound effect
11:10with the fastest point in the zoom in
11:12which is this point here now for this
11:14animation we have this three-part
11:15pyramid moving down from the top of the
11:17screen this is obviously a kind of
11:18movement so let's sound assign let's
11:20bring in another whoosh this one starts
11:21off harsh and then Fades out which is
11:23perfect for this specific movement then
11:25let's align the peak of this whoosh with
11:26the fastest point in this animation and
11:28duplicate it and align it with the
11:29second pyramid and duplicate it again
11:31and align it with the third pyramid and
11:33this is what it's going to sound like
11:34every business is made up of three
11:36layers now in this next section you can
11:37see we start off with a zoom in then
11:39move down and finish it off with a zoom
11:41out and all of these are movements so
11:43let's start with a whoosh in the
11:44beginning and align it with the zoom in
11:46and duplicate it again and align it with
11:47this movement and then duplicate it one
11:49more time and align it with the zoom out
11:51at the end now for this next one I
11:52decided to stylize it a bit more as you
11:54can see we have a popup of an image so
11:56let's add in a basic whoosh for the
11:58movement but this time I'm going to
11:59spice it up a bit more by going over to
12:01epidemic sound and searching for an
12:03electric whoosh then I'm going to lay it
12:04on top of the base whoosh to get this
12:06cool sound foil with the link that you
12:08leave in your bio okay great we're
12:10almost done with the movement so let's
12:11finish up this last section here we have
12:12a simple zoom in with a movement down
12:14and then a zoom out so you already know
12:16what to do drag in a whoosh for the
12:17first zoom in then duplicate it again
12:19for the second movement and then to
12:20spice things up I decided to bring in a
12:22Sci-Fi whoosh and place it here for the
12:24last zoom out and this I think sounds a
12:26lot nicer and lastly your back end is
12:28your ser
12:29editing high quality video and back in
12:31my pyramid animation I decided to layer
12:33on some Hypersonic water sound effects
12:35by aligning them with the whooshes which
12:37we placed earlier and this just sounded
12:38much better every business is made up of
12:40three layers and that's it for step one
12:42as you guys can see we were following
12:43the same exact sequence we Tre described
12:45for step one we just watch through the
12:47animation look for movements and add a
12:48whoosh according to the movement and
12:50this is the easiest step you can do to
12:51already take your videos to the next
12:53level but now it's time for the step
12:55that's going to completely revamp our
12:57short it's time for step two which is
12:59textured sound effects now remember all
13:01that we do here is watch through our
13:02video and look for every other thing
13:04that hasn't been sound designed yet so
13:05we're going to be sound designing text
13:07animations UI animations popups and
13:09everything else and for this we're going
13:11to be specifically using our gears
13:12clicks and other sound effects folders
13:14that we created all right let's get into
13:16the big timec consuming part of our
13:17sound design workflow starting over here
13:19the first thing that we have is this big
13:20text animation with a lot of letters
13:22flowing in this feels like a mechanical
13:23movement so we can add in a gear sound
13:25effect to make it sound like it's
13:27mechanically rotating in so I'll drag in
13:28one of my gear sound effects that I had
13:30and simply place the start of it as the
13:32first letter comes up your most
13:33important asset and this sounds very
13:35nice but I really want to make it more
13:36clicky so I layer on another clicky gear
13:39sound effect and this sounds much nicer
13:41your most important asset and the last
13:42part of this animation is the rectangle
13:44scaling out from the background and for
13:46this I'm going to drag in a Sci-Fi
13:47glitch sound effect and align it with
13:49the rectangle and this is what
13:50everything sounds like your most
13:51important asset and as you can see this
13:53completely changes the feel of the video
13:55so let's keep going through this the
13:56next animation we have is this dotted
13:58line with the text popup a general rule
14:00of thumb for dotted lines is to use
14:01clicky sound effects to bring them to
14:03life so I'll drag in this gear sound
14:04effect here I'll also make sure to
14:05extend it for when the line starts
14:07writing off so we have a gear sound
14:08effect for both the write on and the
14:09write off and for the last part of our
14:11intro we have a two-word write out with
14:13a line animation so for the line
14:15animation we're going to start with a
14:16Sci-Fi glitch sound effect for when it
14:17starts this will make it feel like a
14:19lightsaber starting up then we're going
14:20to add in a data sound effect so that it
14:22feels like this lead line is flickering
14:24and that's it for our intro check it out
14:25your most important asset as a video
14:27editor is your personal brand this makes
14:29a huge difference in our short and to be
14:31fair this was the most complex part of
14:33the entire edit so let's go ahead and
14:34apply step two for the rest of the short
14:36let's go over to the pyramid section
14:38over here we've got three dotted lines
14:39and three words to sound assign let's
14:41start with the dotted lines just as we
14:42did before We'll add in our click sound
14:44effects and align it with the first line
14:46then duplicate it for the second one and
14:48duplicate it again for the third one now
14:49for our text animations they write out
14:51like a typewriter but we're going for a
14:53futuristic feel of the video so we drag
14:54in this futuristic data sound effect and
14:56add it to our text write out make sure
14:58it starts as our text starts and ends as
15:00our text ends and duplicate for the
15:02second text and duplicate it again for
15:03the third text every business is made up
15:05of three layers the front end the
15:07transition and the back end great only a
15:09few more sections left moving into this
15:11one we have a zoom in and a dotted line
15:13so right off the bat let's go back to
15:15the clicky sound effects we made earlier
15:16in the video where we layered on a Gear
15:18sound effect with some clicks and just
15:20duplicate this one over here then we
15:22have this UI box opening up so we'll add
15:24in another sci-fi whoosh and as the UI
15:26Box is open we'll have a data sound
15:28effect in the background to make it look
15:29like we open a new Matrix or something
15:32then we zoom out and for that reason
15:33I'll add a constant power effect to my
15:35data sound effect this will make the
15:36sound effect fade out and I'll time this
15:38so that it fades out as we zoom out and
15:41this is just for the attention to DET
15:42then as we zoom out we have this field
15:44of profile pictures so we'll add a
15:45subtle data sound effect for that as
15:47well just to set in the ambience of the
15:49field your front end as a video editor
15:52is your personal brand it's what
15:53attracts your client eyes when they
15:54click on your profile all right two more
15:56sections left and we're finished this
15:58section was pretty simple first we have
15:59two words pop in and then this letter
16:01pop up sound effect so for the first two
16:03words I added two clicks and for the
16:05letter pop in I added in a gear sound
16:06effect then for the rectangle pop out I
16:08added in a Sci-Fi glitch and lastly this
16:10line animation is a lot like the blue
16:12one we had in the beginning so we'll go
16:14back to it and simply duplicate the same
16:16two sound effects which were the Sci-Fi
16:18glitch and the data sound effect then
16:19your transition is your portfolio all
16:21right final section for this last part
16:23we have our title revealing I wanted to
16:24add a mechanical feel to it so we added
16:26a rough gear sound effect to it and
16:28layer Ed it with a clicks sound effect
16:30for that attention to detail as for the
16:32line that pops down it doesn't have a
16:34dash so I won't make this one sound
16:35mechanical instead I'll use a Sci-Fi
16:37wosh for it then when the word service
16:39pops up I wanted to add a notification
16:41sound for it so I added in a UI click
16:43and after our zoom out we have two
16:45things happening we've got the icon
16:47popping and the line dashes coming out
16:49from behind the icon so we'll add a UI
16:51click to the icon in the middle and
16:53finish it off with a gear sound effect
16:54for the line behind the icon and with
16:56all this being said this completes our
16:58entire sound design for this short just
17:00look at how much step two did to our
17:01sound design timeline and this is how
17:03you know your video is about to be very
17:05high quality I might be wondering Joseph
17:07what happened to step three well in this
17:08case we wouldn't be needing step three
17:10because we just don't need to implement
17:11any risers which is one thing that I did
17:13forget to mention step three is actually
17:15not always necessary so ladies and
17:17gentlemen we've created our own special
17:19highquality sound effects pack we've
17:20learned the three-step sound design
17:22workflow to creating high quality sound
17:24design and we've applied these three
17:25steps to our short over here now it's
17:27finally time to enjoy it full with its
17:29sound design and everything so without
17:31further Ado here is the complete final
17:33product your most important asset as a
17:35video editor is your personal brand let
17:37me explain every business is made up of
17:39three layers the front end the
17:41transition and the back end your front
17:43end as a video editor is your personal
17:45brand it's what attracts your clients
17:46eyes when they click on your profile
17:48then your transition is your portfolio
17:50or the link that you leave in your bio
17:52and lastly your back end is your service
17:54editing high quality videos for clients
17:56so which one do you think you need to
17:58work on on comment down below thank you
18:00guys so much for watching all the way
18:01till the end of video it really means a
18:03lot to me to see you guys stick around
18:05this far guys we're going to keep
18:06rolling out bangers after bangers for
18:08you guys in 2025 so make sure you stay
18:10tuned for our next upload which is going
18:12to be next Saturday and if you've
18:13watched this far as a video editor then
18:15you should probably check out ultimate
18:16editors in the first link down below and
18:18yeah God bless all of you guys have an
18:20amazing day and we'll see you on the
18:21next upload as a matter of fact you can
18:24watch one of these two videos over here
18:25while we still are working on our other
18:27video in the background I guess that's
18:29one way to end the video

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