Foley at Your Fingertips: A Quick Guide to Krotos Studio's Foley Category
Krotos Studio is the perfect solution for quick and authentic Foley sound effects when a Foley studio is out of budget. Discover what you can achieve with our quick guide!
The short video below shows how you can create realistic, high-quality Foley with a few simple gestures, letting you focus on the more important parts of your production.
Foley Sound Effects Presets in Krotos Studio
The Foley category provides a huge collection of essential Foley sound effects from clothing rustles to door closes and beyond. With just a few clicks, you can create realistic Foley by clicking in the performance area in synchronisation with your footage.
The Foley category covers all essential sounds for realistic movements across a range of materials. Leather, denim, wool, polyester, and even velcro are included. It also covers more specific sounds such as keys, bags, paper rustles and plastic bags.
But that's not all! Krotos Studio also covers a whole manner of specialist Foley sounds such as gore, blood, water movement and gun handling for those less-required, but still essential sounds. Explore all Foley presets, and watch what they include and sound like.
Why Krotos Studio for Foley?
Krotos Studio eliminates the time-consuming traditional process of collecting individual sounds, and then layering, editing, and looping them to build sound effects for your projects. Instead, it generates unique versatile Foley effects with a few click and drag gestures.
Creating Movement Foley in Krotos Studio
The Foley category presets are performed with either X-Y pads or clickable buttons, depending on which preset you choose.
Gesture-Based Presets
In each gesture-based preset, you will see 2 X-Y pads. To trigger Foley sound effects, simply click inside the left X-Y pad.
The Y axis controls the level or volume of the sound effect, and the X axis controls the pitch. In the right X-Y pad, you will see 4 material types, one in each corner. The closer you are to a particular corner, the more of that material you will hear. You can click along the sides or centre to combine materials for more complex textures!
Tip: try short clicks for shorter movement gestures, or click and hold for longer gestures. Move across the X-Y pad to match the motions of your footage, like a real Foley artist!
Button-Based Presets
Not all Foley sounds require gesture movements. Sounds such as door closes, opens and locks are short, single sound effects. For these types of presets, you will see a series of clickable buttons on the preset, appropriately labelled to describe the sounds on each button.
The button-based interfaces are found throughout the Foley category, for lightswitches, keyboards, metal lockers, padlocks and more.
Tip: You get a new sound every time you click, meaning your sound effects don’t become repetitive! Use the pitch controls to tailor these sounds even further; pitch upwards for smaller, lighter doors, and pitch downwards for big, heavy doors.
Exporting Foley Sound Effects From Krotos Studio
Krotos Studio records in the background as you perform, no need to hit a record button. Simply create your Foley by clicking and dragging in the left X-Y pad and you will see the recording alert on the application.
Once you are happy with your Foley, click and hold the drag recording button, and drag out of Krotos Studio into your video editor, sound editor or DAW.
Release the click when hovering over the timeline in your editor and your Foley sound effects will be immediately added to your project.
Tip: You can set a location to store all of your sound effects using the burger menu in the top left corner. Set the location to where your other footage is stored to keep all of your assets together automatically.
Summary
Krotos Studio's Foley category offers an incredibly versatile and powerful collection of sounds for creating dynamic and realistic Foley. From the simplicity of using a single material to the complexity of combining them, Krotos Studio provides a vast array of possibilities for creating Foley, quickly and easily.
Explore all Foley presets, and watch what they include and sound like.
Start your journey today and unlock the potential to create Hollywood-grade Foley sound effects in seconds.
