audio only editing

Apple Final Cut Pro

audio only editing

Posted by Mark Coffey on January 15, 2013 at 4:51 pm

I have much audio only editing to do. I’m a picture editor so I don’t know protools or really any of the audio software apps. In FCP7 audio editing is easy and I could do it there but I’d really like to do it in X. I’ve done a number of audio only segments in X but it’s cumbersome and so far not intuitive. Can anyone here point me to tutorials or information that specifically addresses editing audio only in an X project. I’m not looking for tutorials that deal with audio enhancements just a workflow for audio only editing in the “timeline”.

thanks

mark

Mark Coffey replied 13 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Mathieu Ghekiere
January 15, 2013 at 5:46 pm

Check out Ripple Trainings Sound Editing in FCPX.

Although it also covers more of audio enchancements (EQ, Noise Gate, …)

I think Audio Editing is one of the areas where FCP X will have some work to do. Still don’t have an audio-only transition (except for a self-made one by Alex4D)
Mark Coffey
January 15, 2013 at 5:52 pm

thanks, Mathieu

Have you used this tutorial? I’ve seen it listed but I wasn’t confident it would provide what I’m looking for.
Jeff Kirkland
January 15, 2013 at 6:01 pm

It’s probably not 100% what your looking for but I’ve yet to see one of their tutorials that didn’t teach me things I didn’t know that makes my workflow better.

Bottom line is that audio editing isn’t really FCPX’s strong point right now, so even though I’ve done quite a few audio only edits using it, it’s really not the right tool for the job and is always going to be a bit clunky to use.

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Mathieu Ghekiere
January 15, 2013 at 7:42 pm

Hi Mark,

yes, I bought it (not the second edition that was upgraded for 10.0.6 though, so I suppose there is some extra information in there now)

I was a bit dissapointed by the level of information in the tutorial, I expected it to be a bit more troughout.
I’m a big fan of Ripple Training, and I think they have some awesome tutorials and awesome deals (their Motion 5 training, DaVinci Training, their Macbreak Studio, some of the FCPX training)
Mark Coffey
January 17, 2013 at 5:11 pm

thanks Jeff and thanks again Mathieu. I’ll keep floundering on and hope Apple pays more attention to the audio in the near future.

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