How to Add Click and Whoosh Sounds to a Reel in Studio

To add click and whoosh sounds to a Reel, open Modisign Studio, build your edit, then use the Sounds tab: place any of ten free built-in effects by hand, or let Suggest sounds propose one for each title, configured crossfade or dip, and overlay tap. Nothing is applied until you review it. These are short effects only: no music bed, no imported audio, no ducking.

What did we build, and what does it show?

On October 23, 2026, we made an 11.6-second test edit on a free Studio account: two generated gradient clips with synthetic speech, a 0.4-second Crossfade between them, two native titles and the unchanged free red Subscribe configuration. The left half of the image is a frame from the export at 3.0 seconds, when the overlay's cursor taps the button. The right half is the SFX lane and the review.

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How do you add the sounds, step by step?

1. Build the picture first. Import your clips. In an empty timeline they join V1 in the order you pick them; files you import later wait in the Media bin, where each clip's plus button adds it. Click the diamond between two clips and choose Crossfade or Dip to black. Add a title under Text, then Add title at playhead. Sounds attach to this structure.
2. Open the Sounds tab. On a phone-sized layout use More, then Sounds. The list shows ten sounds with their length and a Free badge. The category chips are All, Click, Typing, Whoosh, Pop and Sparkle.
3. Use Listen before you add. Listen plays the sound through Studio's preview audio. In our test it added nothing, left the playhead where it was and created no undo step.
4. Place one by hand. Move the playhead, press Add at playhead, and edit the selected sound. Timing offers Start, ±1 frame, Start at playhead, Sound start and Sound end. Volume offers Volume, Mute, Fade in and Fade out. We placed Keyboard burst at 7.0 s under the second title, ended it at 0.8 s, set volume 0.25 and a 0.15 s fade-out. On the phone layout a selected sound shows Back, Sound, Timing, Volume and Delete.
5. Open Suggest sounds. Tick the events, choose Subtle or Normal, and pick the title sound: Pop, Typing or Sparkle. Reroll variants can swap a row to the other sound of its category. Each row has its own Listen button and checkbox.
6. Review, then Apply. The button reads, for example, "Apply 3 sounds". It adds all ticked rows as one step, and one Undo removes them. Our Undo and Redo each moved all three at once.
7. Export. Click Export, then Export MP4. The video length follows your footage, not the sounds.

Event times in the review use minutes:seconds:frames, so 00:05:24 is 5 s and 24 frames, or 5.8 s.

Which sound goes with which moment?

Category	Sounds (length)	What Suggest sounds uses it for
Click	Interface click (97 ms), Mouse click (56 ms)	Overlay taps
Typing	Keyboard burst (3.8 s), Single mechanical key (313 ms)	Key presses use Single mechanical key; Typing is also a title option
Whoosh	Bamboo swish (426 ms), Air sweep (1.68 s)	Crossfade midpoints and dip cut points
Pop	Bubble pop (149 ms), Mouth pop (588 ms)	Title entrances (default)
Sparkle	Cartoon sparkle (638 ms), Magic chime (1.95 s)	Title entrances, if chosen

Only the Subscribe overlay was in our edit. Suggest sounds uses only overlays that declare a tap or key-press moment; overlays without one are listed under Skipped, so a comment card gets no automatic click.

What does Suggest sounds skip, and why?

It proposes only for three kinds of event, and it explains what it leaves out:

• Hard cuts get nothing. Only a configured Crossfade or Dip counts.
• A nearby sound wins. Our second title shared its start with the manual typing sound, so its row was Off by default with "Another sound already plays within 0.25 s of this event."
• Edited sounds are yours. After we raised the tap's volume to 0.5, the tap moved to Skipped as "Already has an edited sound." A later Subtle apply said it "replaces 2 sounds from an earlier suggestion; sounds you added or edited stay."

Where did the sound energy land in the export?

We exported the final edit twice, with and without sounds, decoded both audio tracks and subtracted one from the other. This shows what the sounds added; it is a measurement, and nobody listened to it.

Event	Event time	Sound and volume	First audible, peak time	Peak level
Title appears	0.50 s	Bubble pop, 25%	0.500 s, 0.502 s	-13.4 dBFS
Subscribe tap	3.00 s	Interface click, 50% (edited)	3.000 s, 3.001 s	-7.5 dBFS
Crossfade midpoint	5.80 s	Bamboo swish, 21%	5.737 s, 5.798 s	-18.5 dBFS
Manual typing	7.00 s	Keyboard burst, 25%	7.071 s, 7.464 s	-24.8 dBFS

The synthetic speech peaked at -2.8 and -2.4 dBFS; the edited click was the loudest effect, 4.7 dB under the first speech peak. The difference was digital silence from 3.4 to 4.6 s and after 8.2 s, and -68 dBFS from 1.4 to 2.8 s. In an earlier pass, the 1.68-second Air sweep became audible about 0.7 s before the crossfade midpoint and peaked about 0.27 s before it, so check a long whoosh; use Reroll variants or the Timing offset.

How should you place them? Three suggestions

• Title: a Pop on the entrance, at Subtle first. A sound that starts a few milliseconds early still reads as one event.
• Tap: the click belongs on the cursor's landing frame, which the cue already marks. Keep it under the voice.
• Cut: a short whoosh over a dissolve; skip it on hard cuts and after pause removal, where a hard cut is the point.

For transitions between photos and clips the same whoosh rule holds. For the title itself, see the hook title guide.

What are the limits, licence and Free/Pro rules?

The ten sounds are third-party recordings released under CC0: two from Kenney, eight from Freesound uploads, with credits listed voluntarily in the sound notice. Creative Commons states it has not verified the copyright status of any work under CC0, and Modisign does not clear third-party claims, including an automated match on a platform.

Sounds do not make an export Pro. A Studio export is free only when every overlay equals a free preset with no non-identity overlay motion key, captions are absent or use only Clean, Boxed or Minimal (globally, on every line and in any Scatter style pool) with no manually styled word (Reset all word edits clears them), and no title reveal or person effect is set; the free Subscribe overlay qualifies unchanged. Pro Save keeps sound ids, timing, volume and links, never audio. The Modisign MCP offers the same sound requests to an assistant.

Compare the alternative honestly. CapCut documents a sound-effect library you browse by category or search, with an AI generator that analyzes motion, transitions and scene changes. Studio has ten sounds and rules based on your edit's structure. Pick CapCut for breadth; use Studio when a few short effects tied to your titles, taps and dissolves are enough. Start in Studio.