[Kelsey Slay] Y'all want to see Sneak number four? [Awkwafina] Yes. I just want to say this has been really thrilling. [Kelsey Slay] Yes. [Kelsey Slay] Yes, it's been thrilling. Let's give it up for the Sneaks. [Awkwafina] It's been fun. Very cool.
[Kelsey Slay] Awesome. So we all know that sound design is critical to storytelling and video. Sneak number 4 enables an easier workflow for this. Please welcome to the stage Justin Salamon with Project Super Sonic.
[Justin Salamon] Thank you, girls. Merci. What's up, MAX? It's great to be back at Sneaks. Really excited. And I'm working on this project, and I have a beautiful 4K footage of a forest. But there's no sound, and I want to bring it to life with sound. And normally, I'd have to search for the sounds, download them, import them to my project, drag them on to the timeline and all of that just to check if they even work for me. Wouldn't it be great if I could just generate sounds for my project right in the timeline? Well, with Project Super Sonic we can now do this. I'm going to go here and type in forest ambiance, and hit. Wait, I'm going to bring this. So let me do this again. Bring the cursor to the right place. Now let's do this. Forest ambiance, and I'm going to hit Generate. And now this is going to be calling our Text to Sound Effect GenAI model. That's going to be generating audio on the fly in full 48kHz sample rate. And it will, once it's finished generating, it's going to place it right in the timeline for me to audition alongside the video. And there we go. Let's have a listen. [Music] [Awkwafina] Sounds like a forest to me. [Justin Salamon] All right.
How easy was that? And now I feel like I'm in the forest. So in my next scene, I'm working, and I have this spaceship that's taking off from another part of the forest in front of a waterfall. I've already generated the sound of the waterfall. Let's check out what I have so far. [Music] [Justin Salamon] Now, of course, I want to add a sound for the spaceship, but I'm out of ideas. But no worries, because Project Super Sonic is also an inspiration machine. I can hit Subject Selection, and it is going to recognize...
Give it a couple seconds to do its thing.
Well, spaceship isn't coming up, but it recognizes the spaceship as my subject, so now I can hover over it. And when I click on the spaceship, it's going to write a prompt for me.
There we go. Check it out, we get a spaceship taking off from a forest planet. Sounds good to me. Let's give it a go. I'm going to hit Generate and let's see what we get.
And you can see that with this workflow, I can go straight from the objects in my video to sound effects in seconds.
Give it another second to do its magic.
There we go, we got our result. And not only do we get one result. [Music] [Justin Salamon] That's pretty spaceshippy. We get multiple variations to choose from. This sounds kind of dramatic. Let's crank up the volume and let's go to the top. Are we ready for our spaceship? Here we go. [Music] [Justin Salamon] Sweet.
We've got liftoff.
So my spaceship has taken off, and now it's going to land in an alien planet, right in the midst of a monster battle. And here we have a real problem, because check out this scene. We got the monster growling, and then it's going to growl again, and then this other monster is going to growl back at it and flaps its wings. There's a lot going on in this scene, and if I have to add the sound for each one of these moments, get the timing, the energy just right, that's going to be a lot of work. But sound designers, they often use their voice to sketch an idea of how they want things to sound. Wouldn't it be neat if I could use that workflow to drive my generation? Well, with Project Super Sonic this is not sci fi, we can do just that. Check this out. I am going to hit Record and I'm going to imitate the monster growls with my voice.
So the monster hits this little red button. Please, hush, hush everyone, because we're going to be recording. Here we go.
We got the growls down, now let's see what we get back. I'm going to type in monster growl and I'm going to hit Generate. And it's going to be using the precise timing, dynamics and energy of my voice to drive the generation. And so we'll give it a couple more seconds to do its magic.
The growls, there's a lot to take in there. [Kelsey Slay] Those were good growls. [Justin Salamon] There's a lot to take in there.
There we go. We got it. Let's crank up the volume, I want to see what we got. Are we ready, everyone? [Awkwafina] Yes. [Justin Salamon] Let's see what we got.
I mean, this is too much fun. So I feel like I'm on a roll, so let's just do one more. Let's add the wings flapping, the kind of the woosh sounds. So I'm going to hit Record Audio. And again, we're going to record. Here we go. Hush, hush everyone.
And I guess I'll type in whoosh.
Let's hit Generate. Now, it's going to be doing its magic.
And here we go. Let's check it out.
Not too bad. Let's go and listen to what we got from the top.
I love it, from a sketch to a fully generated sound design in seconds. So there you have it. That's Project Super Sonic. Elevate your videos with sound effects using GenAI right in the timeline. Thank you.
