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Audio editing in FCPX
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[Mark Raudonis] “Help me out here. Am I supposed to be the crocodile, the plover, or the wildebeest? “
good question. I did post it in the wee small hours, so one might draw a bachelder conclusion..
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[TImothy Auld] “Indeed. Maybe the bee pit isn’t that bad after all.
“Word for word, that is exactly what I was about to write!
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I just had the (dis)pleasure of fixing a short in FCPX exported from FCP7 using 7 to X.
The editor was eyeballing the video to the external audio in FCP7.
I know.. “cringe” but it happens, thats what Im for…the FIXER 😛
Anyways, I found FCPX to be a joy to work with as far as audio.
I had to redo my workflow to fit the editors mistake and I didnt mind,the challenge was worth it.
Using the Open in Timeline helped a lot.
Now of course I should have just synced the the EX3s to the recorded audio right?
Well that didnt quite work out due to the deadline I was given.
First off finding the clip (no labels to match audio) take and then finding the audio was hell.
Were talking 250 plus clips (Cam A/B) and 125 (some missing) audio.
Off the 10 attempts I made at sync, only 3 matched.
I didnt have the brain-space to deal with this at the time.
Okay I went to much into my hell over the week-end.
Anyways, I love FCPX audio tools.
For what I do, it really did save my ass.
I will make notes of my audio adventure and post my own topic soon. -
I have been intensively editing a long-form doc in X now for a few months, and while I like some things about editing dialog & audio, others seem strange and non-sensical.
I like the speed and fluidity of chopping up dialog & rearranging it in the main storyline. However, when i want to do something really simple to the audio of a video clip WITHOUT detaching it, like cut a piece of room tone in over an off-camera cough or interviewer voice, it is not obvious how to do such a simple thing… Sometimes i turn the clip into a compound clip and do the editing there, but I don’t like going away to a different project timeline to do that… my main “project” takes a while to come back… other times i have detached the audio and fiddled with it in a secondary storyline, but i don’t like doing that… so i have found workarounds but none of them seem intuitive and natural as they would in an NLE environment where all tracks have the same properties… yes, there it is, the “T” word… honestly I really do miss tracks sometimes. And I really miss tracks when i create a secondary storyline and think it will behave just like the primary storyline, and therefore be sort of like a new “track”… the inconsistency between how secondary story lines and the primary operate seems a bit strange to me… like i wish i could copy & paste inside that secondary storyline, but nope. X is a strange beast.
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[Joshua Pearson] “like cut a piece of room tone in over an off-camera cough or interviewer voice”
What about just range the section with the cough and drop that level down and then attach your room tone below that (as a connected clip) with a little adjustments with the audio fade handles? I love those fade handles.
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[Joshua Pearson] “However, when i want to do something really simple to the audio of a video clip WITHOUT detaching it, like cut a piece of room tone in over an off-camera cough or interviewer voice, it is not obvious how to do such a simple thing…”
Have you tried copying a portion and pasting as Connected?
Ive done this both ways where I pasted as Connected in Project and within the clip itself using “Open in Timeline” option. -
Ooops Tony beat me to it 🙂
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yes i’ve done all that… it just bugs me that these little tiny clips will be dangling off my storyline… i want the little tiny clip to be safely embedded into the main audio clip!…
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[Joshua Pearson] “i want the little tiny clip to be safely embedded into the main audio clip!..”
Why?
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“i want the little tiny clip to be safely embedded into the main audio clip”
But doesn’t the “open in timeline” option achieve just that?
I find audio editing more elegant in x than in legacy.
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