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Audio mixdown problems
I’m new to final cut — have been using the Avid for years….
I’m trying to do an audio mixdown for only 2 audio channels of my sequence, which has 12 audio channels so far. On the Avid it’s very easy to do this, you just select the channels u want to mixdown and goto audio mixdown -then tell it where you want to put the mixed down audio… but in final cut, i dont see this feature….. does anyone know an easy way to do this?
Another thing that I want to be able to do is apply audio volume/effects from my inpoint to my outpoint.. again, in the avid there was just a drop down menu in audio mixer window which lets you apply audio effects in to out.. Anything like this for final cut?
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its all there. check the manual.
you can get to the audio track stem config by right clicking
in the area where those little rectangles are (to divert to a specific channel)
but you need to look at the audio configuration in the preferences to enable
it first. -
Here’s what I’m actually trying to do. I have a portion of a sound effect with a short little dissolve on the audio.. the sound effect ends too abruptly though – so I want to add a little reverb that carries on after the sound effect is finished. The typical way I would do this in the avid is mix down that sound effect track (including the dissolve I added) into a longer clip, and then add reverb to that – which would artificially extend the sound effect and fix the abrupt ending… I don’t see any sort of mixdown, or render down audio function though..
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Select all tracks, got to Sequence>render All>mixdown.
Have a wonderful day.
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Okay.. the things is I don’t want to Render All. I just want a single sound effect that I’ve put dissolves in — which is only 2 channels, within a timeline of 16channels… I want that specific part, with my in & out set – to be rendered down to another file.. not the entire sequence
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Well, if you cut your clips with the blade tool you can just select what you want, but why? Mixing down the whole thing is a very good thing to do, it frees up FCP to playback without dropping frames. It does not merge your tracks or anything like that. In fact, when you make another audio edit you should mix it all down again.
Have a wonderful day.
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I’m pretty sure you’re not understanding what I want to do… Hmm… Are you familiar with the function “audio mixdown” within the AVID. It seems that audio mixdown in the avid is different then final cuts audio mixdown…
Anyone know the equivalent to the “audio mixdown” function within the avid?
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Max,
I know what you’re asking for and no you cannot do it like Avid (and yes I wish you could). The only equivalent would be to grab the tracks you want, put in a new sequence, then export that sequence as an aiff. Reimport after that.
So convoluted, i know. Despite my love of Final Cut, Avid does handle audio management SOOO much better.
RB
Rory Brennan
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I believe this will do what you want to do…
Select the audio you want to “mixdown & treat”. If it is synced to video clips, un-sync so you are dealing with just the audio. Go to sequence & nest the audio clips. It will ask if you want to mixdown the clips. Check yes. You can then apply filters to the nested clip
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