audio scrub in trim mode?

[Tanya Schneider]

Hi Peter
I am just new to FCP and found your post about audio scrub in trim mode… did you ever find out how to do this?
Cheers
Tanya

[Vincent Bruzzese]

FCP does NOT scrub frame by frame in Trim mode.
Kinda hard to believe huh?
Guess they like it pro-sumer.

[David Battistella]

[Vincent Bruzzese] “Kinda hard to believe huh?
Guess they like it pro-sumer. “

Vincent,

There is no need for this kind of negativity. If you don’t like a feature in the software maybe ask a question, but this kind of post is not really helpful to anyone.

If you want to answer a question then just answer it. Nothing gets added with the rest of your opinion.

David

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[Joshua Schwarz]

i’m an avid editor making the transition. i have found that you can scrub in fcp trim mode if you have your user settings/editing set to “trim with sequence audio.”

i have a related question. rather the going to the trim window, i prefer to trim in the timeline using the “[” and “]” keys. it’s a bit faster. however, i haven’t found a way to enable audio scrubbing while trimming that way. does anyone have a technique for trimming in the timeline with audio scrubbing?

thanks,

josh

[Mark Block]

This thread is years old now, but I just stumbled on it.

You can do Avid-style trimming with audio in the Tim Edit mode. Hold down the “K” key, then blip the “J” or “L” keys to trim back and forth while hearing one frame of audio at a time.

– Mark Block

[Tanya Schneider]

Thanks Mark! That’s awesome! I can’t believe I haven’t stumbled across this anywhere else!

[Curt Needs]

Not sure if this is what you mean, but I often am cutting interviews and need to merge the same word together or put two totally different thoughts together and make it sound like a single thought/sentence. The main way I do this is scrubbing frame by frame in the audio and making sure it plays smoothly from one clip to the next.

If you ever find that you accidentally turned this off, just press Shift-S to turn frame-by-frame audio scrubbing back on. At least on FCP7 this works. Not sure on X.