Major making my 5 minute cap and adding audio to it

 



My story had run for 7 minutes, which is too long, so I shortened it to 5 minutes by using the time stretch feature in After Effects. I cut up the video and the audio for more breathing room in the words.


I then wanted to add music, but thought I had to export the video and then play background music that was low which, is a really convoluted process.


The video below helped me to search for my music from YouTube's audio library as they are copyright free and very versatile:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qYg1jpaWg

I made the music -20db and the lines from the script 0db so that the music would not drown out the words as in audio -db (decibels which are measurements of sound) is less sound than +db.

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