Audio: Synchronization

Hey Vsauce, Random Here

Teacher's grade: 9/10

Here we had to pick a video with people speaking and replace the voices with our own. You could repeat the original script, but it was encouraged to change it up a bit. Either by translating, or by making a parody. I chose the latter.

I wanted the lip movements to still look natural, but at the same time try to make the script funny. I'm not really satisfied with the script, but I didn't have time to make a better one. The goal here was to practice synchronizing audio anyway. So, I guess it's fine.

Our audio laboratory had a small little "room" for recording, that had special soundproofing walls. We borrowed a real microphone (H4n) and used that. Time was running short so I didn't do many takes.

I used Adobe Premiere Pro to synchronize the audio, then I used Shotcut to finalize the video. I also used vocalremover to extract the music, since I couldn't get the original music.

I almost turned it in just in time, but then got interrupted. By the time I came back to my laptop, I got graded 0/10. I turned it in really quickly and wrote a message to the teacher. He was kind enough to change it to 9/10. But then later we were allowed to improve our projects anyway. I adjusted the audio a bit.

I was actually also planning to imitate the classic intro: "Hey Vsauce, Michael here!", but I didn't have time for that-

Healthy Station is the name of a nearby small restaurant:
https://www.healthy-station.at/

Links:

The Power of Suggestion by Vsauce (Mind Field S2E6) — the original video
Vocal Remover and Isolation [AI] — free online AI tool I used to "extract" the music from the original video
Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio — I also tried out this
H4n - E_H4nSP_0.pdf — the manual for the microphone used
Shotcut — a free, open source, cross-platform video editor
Jake Chudnow - "Atlas" (Theme from Mind Field) — outro theme of this video
Alsina Font | dafont.com — font I used for the outro text. Same as the one Vsauce uses

Transcript:

Edited:	Original:
This is Wien West University in Vienna, Austria.	This is McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It roasts a Döner for more than forty-thousand students from a hundred-fifty countries.	It boasts an enrollment of more than 40,000 students from 150 countries.
But they can't even enjoy one sample of Healthy Station, for more than three-hundred long years and it's about to become a twelve Newtonpain weakness.	The campus employs 1,700 professors teaching 300 programs of study, and it's proud to be home to 12 Nobel Prize winners.
It is considered one of the fakest research universities in the world.	It is considered one of the finest research universities in the world.
Recently, researchers at Wien West have embarked on a study, that uses a deadly scanning device to destroy people's minds and inject lethal injections inside their heads.	Recently, researchers at McGill have embarked on a study, that uses a brain scanning device to read people's minds and implant thoughts into their heads.
Or so their subjects think.	Or so their subjects think.
The same device may be able to help kids with ADHD, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraines, Tourette's and more.	Now, the same device may be able to help kids with ADHD, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraines, Tourette's and more.
This study is not about donutology.	This study is not about technology.
The Mario pipe behind me may look impressive, but it's a scam.	The MRI machine behind me may look impressive, but it's a sham.
It's deactivated, nonfunctioning.	It's deactivated, nonfunctioning.
What this study is really about is faith in India.	What this study is really about is faith in science.
It's about the power of thoughts to hell.	It's about the power of thoughts to heal.
All you need is the power of donuts.	All you need is the power of suggestion.