There is no hard and fast rule about what defines a proper audio level. Click the tiny Audio meters in the toolbar, or press Command-Shift-8 to display large Audio meters to the right of the Timeline.In the Project Library, double-click the Sound editing project inside the Lesson_04 folder in the APTS FCP X ADV Part 1 disk. Tiny meters are always visible to the right of the current timecode in the center of the toolbar, but you can also display large meters with a single click. Understanding Audio Metersįinal Cut Pro has highly accurate, easy-to-read Audio meters to monitor audio levels and ensure that they are correct and uniform. And if the overall level is too quiet or too loud, other problems arise such as increased background noise or distortion. If one scene is too loud and the next is too soft, it’s very hard for viewers to stay engaged in your program. One of the most basic and fundamental aspects of good audio is ensuring that the volume level is consistent across your project.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION FINAL CUT PRO X MANUAL
This lesson picks up where those lessons left off and delves into a more manual approach to improving your sound. It has tools to set the audio levels to a uniform, accurate volume multiple methods to create audio fades and four fade styles intuitive controls for panning sound between speakers, in both stereo and surround sound environments and much more.Īpple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X by Diana Weynand (Peachpit Press) described the automatic audio enhancements you can apply to your clips to remove background noise, adjust levels, and remove silent audio channels. If seeing is believing, then hearing is feeling.įortunately, Final Cut Pro X contains an impressive number of ways to improve your video’s sound. And while the images carry the basic information of a scene, the sound invariably carries the emotional content. You can always close your eyes, but closing your ears is far more difficult.
Audiences will tolerate shockingly poor quality video (see Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, or Blair Witch Project for proof), but no one will sit through even three minutes on YouTube if the audio is hard to hear.
It cannot be said often enough: Audio is more important than video. Manage audio channels for multichannel clipsīreak apart audio channels for independent editing This lesson takes approximately 85 minutes to complete.