 Hell yeah, what's up guys this curse pipe my friends call me big C. I'm back in action today I'm gonna show you how to separate your audio tracks when you record them So your voice is separate from the background music at the point of recording And then I'm gonna show you how to split them up inside hit film express so that you can adjust them separately Why am I doing this first off one? We're doing a series here. That's geared towards new youtubers Gamers that are just getting started and you don't want to pay huge money for Like something like Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects or some expensive video editor And you also don't want to pay money for video capture software as well We're gonna do this using only free tools and it's gonna be awesome. So let's get going. You'll see here I'm inside Valheim and Presto cool The first step is we want to record the game footage So I'm gonna be doing this using Nvidia shadow play. This is free software that comes with any recent relatively recent Nvidia graphic card and to access your recording screen I'm gonna hold down alt and zed and when I do that you're gonna see here We get the g-force experience now There's a whole bunch of stuff here But what we want to do right now to split the audio tracks is click on this little gear icon When you open that gear icon go down to the bottom and They've made it nice and simple now It didn't used to be this simple But you'll see an option create a single track Which is what we don't want to do and the reason why it's because if your background music and your voice are on the same track You can only increase or decrease the combined total So if your voice is too loud or the background music is way too frigging loud That gets off in the case and you can't and you want to make an adjustment But turn your voice up or down you can't do it unless you create separate separate tracks So left click on that make sure that it's selected green. Okay now We're gonna go ahead and do some recording so you can see exactly what I'm talking about I'm gonna left click here on record and you'll notice here that it's also got the hotkey of alt f9 So I'm gonna left click on that and it's gonna go green. There we go It's green and we are recording so what we're doing is we're basically recording the background music and the background mob Noises and all that other stuff separate from me talking to you as we do this I'm just gonna punch it big in the head. Oh, you like that you silly boy. Yeah, you like that. Let's kick All right guys every once in a while you gotta do some hand again Hand to hand combat with a nice little pig, right? Who hasn't wanted a Pig in the face. All right. Cool. All right. We got some nice piggy footage there Okay, so I'm gonna hit alt zed again That's gonna load up the g-force experience and then I'm gonna left click on record and I'm going to stop it and save it This is gonna save it to my drive. All right. We are on our way I'm gonna hit escape to get out of that and then I'm gonna escape out of this game left click on quit quit the game Now as I slowly quit the game here, I guess it's a little slow You'll see here that I have hit film express already open ready to go the next step If you're following along with me is you want to go to where you recorded the footage? So I've got a folder here and it's called Valheim and this is the last video that I did So this is the one that you just saw me record I'm gonna left click on it drag and drop it into the media folder here And now it gets a little tricky and it actually can throw you off a little bit so I'm just gonna go ahead and again drag it onto the timeline and Now you're gonna see here that we've got the footage loaded into the timeline It's like 35 seconds or something like that. I'm gonna hit the play button here And you're gonna see an issue and then I'm gonna show you how we solve it Yes There is no microphone, right? That's what you're thinking. Hey, you recorded it and I heard you talking Why can't I hear that and the reason why is hit film express really only works with one audio even though Nvidia does it correctly and they separate it into separate audio tracks If you use Adobe Premiere Pro for example, you won't bump into this problem They fix it automatically and they separate the tracks, but Adobe Premiere Pro is like 40 bucks or 60 bucks a month or something like that So yeah, we're using free tools for now, especially for the new people. So let's take a little deeper look in here You're gonna see here that this is the waveform So I'm just gonna zip in here and as I do that you'll see here. This is the waveform This is the background music now if I go and I right-click on this here You're gonna see at the bottom when you right-click you're gonna see properties when I open up properties. Here we go There's audio one system sounds under audio, but if I click that little down chevron, you're gonna see audio to Microphone and when I do that, this is where it gets weird. We now listen to this I go green. There we go It's green and we are recording That's what we recorded when we were doing it right there. So By default HitFilm Express doesn't separate out the tracks. It's not smart enough or alternatively They make you pay for it. I haven't checked into that yet But we can do this for free and I'm gonna show you the workaround What you want to do here to get both the audio tracks on here is we're gonna go We're gonna right-click on the audio or on the video here I'm a right-clicking and you're gonna see that I have the option to duplicate When you duplicate this now We've got two videos and we can put them both on top of each other And we can have one set to the microphone and we can have one set to the background music and the mob music and stuff Like that. So that's the trick. So I'm gonna delete this one off the I'm just gonna go ahead and right-click on this and clear it. So I guess yeah, what do they use? What do these cut now? Whatever, okay? I'm gonna go ahead and drop the top one in here Then I'm gonna go ahead and drop the other one on top of it. So we've got both tracks here now Let's go ahead and dig in a little further by default and you can look here at the waveform They're both the same audio. So what we want to do I'm just gonna whoops, I don't want to do that what we want to do is we want to set one of them To the background music and one of them to the voice. So let's see what we got here I go green there. Okay, so we got the voice as you can hear. So one of them Let's go with this one first step I'm gonna right-click on it and I'm going to unlink them because I don't want them linked up The second thing I'm gonna do and you'll see here that I've clicked on the audio again I'm gonna right-click on it and now we're gonna go back into properties and Instead of saying audio to We're gonna switch it to audio one system sounds left-click on okay Now you'll see that the waveforms are different and if I hit spacebar We're gonna have both the background music and my voice watch this I go green. There we go It's green and we are recording. So what we're doing is there we go You can hear me squeaking through the woods now The reason why we did this is because now we can adjust the background audio or the voice to go up or down Increase decrease in how loud it is just by going in and making adjustments to it So if I was to go, let's see where do they keep the audio stuff we would well We'll do that in another video But you can move this line for example if you move the line up it increases or decreases the audio So you'll see here that if I move this up that means it's gonna go up eight decibels If I move this up or move this one down for example, it's gonna go down minus 22 point six seven decibels So this is a real quick and easy way to adjust the audio But again, you would want to go in and we can go through the details of that The last step here that I recommend is I'm gonna go ahead and remember when I unlinked it earlier The reason why I unlinked it because this one if I delete this if I just go ahead and Just go ahead and cut it. We've now got a single video. So we got a single video track and two Separate audio tracks now we just go up here to file or where did they got to export to file and Off we go. I would put this one on in here and this would be audio two tracks Valheim I would hit save and Then you'll see here that under the export window. It's gonna go ahead and load up It's starting the progress and this is how you go ahead and separate tracks and have professional audio With with with both of them separated out without spending a single dollar on software That's it for this video guys I know it's a little long-winded and I know why you haven't heard me lately That's because I've been out with COVID but I'm back in business. We're back in action. I got a ton more stuff coming up Stay to excuse me. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching