Audio on FCPX – how would you do this?

[Noah Kadner]

In the Inspector you can choose to view 2 track audio as mono pairs and from there decide to have both on or one or the other.

Noah

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[Herb Sevush]

Noah –

And I assume you can click back and forth easily, switching between audio channels every time you add something to the timeline?

And as a follow up, how easy would it be to replace an edit that had ch. 1 audio with ch.2 audio.

Thanks.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Noah Kadner]

It depends how you did it. It’s easier if you do the soloing in the inspector to change later- but then you won’t be able to edit in the timeline. Worth just trying it out and seeing what works best.

Noah

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[Craig Seeman]

Some tricks around this.
In dual mono in the inspector you can turn on and off the individual tracks as desired.

If you use Open In Timeline command on a dual mono clip, you will have the individual clips to be acted upon.

If you Break Apart Clips you will get two separate audio tracks.

[Herb Sevush]

Thank you.

On another note is it true that currently there are no time code indicators for source shots on the timeline? In other words is there any way to look at the timeline and see the timecode of the sources used? And if not is the info available in another way, for example, by right clicking and choosing from a menu (this was the PP method in version 1.)

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

I just ran into this article from Rick Young.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_dual_track_audio_editing_young.html

Very well explained.

Kind regards,

Robbert-Jan van der Does
lighting cameraman/steadicam operator/editor

WISIWYG (What I See Is What You Get)

[Herb Sevush]

Thank you, that explained it nicely.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Jean-françois Robichaud]

If you select a clip in the timeline and go into the info tab in the inspector window, the in/out TC will be displayed there (maybe not under the basic view though). I do hope Apple provides a better way to view timecode.

[Gregor Queck]

Here is a timecde-reder, it displays it nicely on top of the video, perfect:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/11205

[Herb Sevush]

Gregor –

The way I understand it, this is a filter which you would have to apply to a clip in order to read it’s timecode, is that correct? If so where (on the screen) does the timecode window display, and what happens if several clips have he filter on, does it only display the code under the playhead – I don’t understand how this would work.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions