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Help with audio equalization in Final Cut
I’m dealing with a talking head interview project, 2 channels, both people have seperate mic’s. This is on a g5 if that helps, and i am digitizing from and outputting to BetaSP.
One of my tracks is a male voice, and it is all over the place. He is either roaring into the microphone, causing my track to peak, or he is at a very low, monotone state. It isn’t as if the track is completely blown out, or way too distorted or anything, i was just wondering if there was an audio filter within final cut that i can use to equalize the tracks a little bit, and make them more uniform in levels. I’m trying to avoid exporting/reimporting the audio tracks to/from final cut.
Any help is appreciated.
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Modify>audio>normalize.
You can apply several gate and compression filters in FCP. They are tedious and cannot be trusted to do anything for you.
You can go into SoundtrackPro and apply all kinds of superb intelligent processing.
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It sounds like the compressor/limiter filter would work out for you as something you should play around with. Read the description in the Final Cut Manual, as I just did. I’m actually using it right now cause i have a finished short film I’m adding to a reel and the levels were mixed with some loud car crashes at -1db and soft dialogue -12 to -18. Used the com/limit to bring down the crashes to -6db and sounds much better now. Hope this helps.
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