 Hello everybody. Welcome back to another HitFilm Express video. On this one I'm going to show you how to increase the audio of your video footage or your audio footage or maybe something you got off your cell phone. How do we increase the loudness or the decibels? And I'll show you using free software which HitFilm Express is as of this recording, February 24th, 2022. All right, first step you've got to open up HitFilm Express. If you do not have a copy, here it is. You want to go right here. Let's just pull this down and take a look. FXHome.com. You'll see here you can download it free. If you left click on this little button here, it'll give you this slider. What you need to do is you need to move that slider right to the left. It says consider supporting them and I do agree. You should support them but you know if you're just doing this as a one-time thing or you're not sure and you want to try this off road, this is all you have to do. Move it to the left, click download. Once you've gone and opened it, here you go. You're going to see this screen. I'm going to go to File New and then I'm just going to go ahead and click on OK. It doesn't really matter what those settings are because we're going to drag and drop some footage in and that footage is all that's going to matter. So I'm going to go over to my Movies tab and then I've got this video here. It's really not that good but whatever. I just want to show you a technique. So I'm going to go ahead and left click on this video and I'm going to drop it into the media folder just like this and then I'm going to take the video and then I put it right onto the timeline making sure that I click yes here so the editor sequence knows this and then presto. I hit left and then I've hit spacebar. You're going to hear it's basically just a rainy night and it's kind of quiet. Now to increase the audio, there's two ways to do it and this can be for any type of footage. This could be stuff you just got on your cell phone and or maybe you've got your DSLR camera out but you didn't have your shotgun mic plugged in or you didn't have it close enough, etc etc. A million ways reasons for this. All you got to do is hover over this white line and then left click and pull it up and as I do that you're going to see that it says minus it says plus 12 plus 9.336.67 basically by doing that alone you can get 12 decibels more. If I hit spacebar you'll see that it's much much louder. So that's all there is to it. You can go ahead and adjust that. You can also just click on the audio track just like this here. If I click on the audio track and then I go to controls you'll also see a slider here that allows you to go ahead and decrease and increase this. Right now it's capped at 12 decibels is the maximum you can increase it so if you need to go above that you'll need to render it out and then put it back in and then add another 12 decibels and if you're going that far you'll probably want to check out my Premiere Pro tutorial where I can show you to do that without all that stuff. So this is it guys. It's all you got to do. It's free software. It's free tool, free technique. Thanks for watching. A ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.