Final Cut Voiceovers

[Tom Meegan]

I’m guessing that you are recording your voice over using the capture tool. If this is so, you will want to use the Voice Over Tool. If you are already using the VO Tool and you are having troubles, I apologize.

Tools > Voice Over or Option – Zero.

Then Help > Final Cut Pro User Manual and search:

The voice over tool lets

This will take you to Volume 3 Page 137. Spend five minutes reading and ten minutes experimenting and you will be golden.

Best,

Tom

[Scott Oaks]

Thanks Tom, I tried the manual but still cant see the video as I am narrating. The recording works perfectly but I need to see the video rolling while I narrate. The clip is in the timeline with in and out points and the movie is in the Canvas window. As soon as I hit record, the Canvas image goes to “unrendered”

[Tom Wolsky]

Render the video.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Tom Meegan]

That was as concise a response as I’ve ever seen.

In case you need more:

Select the video in the area you are going to be voicing in the timeline.

Hit Command – R.

Tom M

[Scott Oaks]

Works like a charm, thanks Tom. So it looks like any video clip I bring into the browser and place in the timeline,has to be rendered first before working on it? As in adding voice overs etc.

[Tom Wolsky]

That only happens if the clip you’re putting in the sequence is in a different specification from the sequence you’re putting it into. The two have to match in every detail. Look in item properties for the clip and for the sequence and see what’s different.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Scott Oaks]

Ahhh, I see. I guess what determines the specs is what I chose when I fire up FCP? I was used to iMovie and throwing any old avi files into it. Scrubbing etc was much easier in iMovie too.

[Tom Meegan]

To trouble shoot the mis-matched settings:

Select a clip and hit Command – 9

Make note of the settings.

Then:

Select a sequence and hit Command – Zero.

Compare and contrast.

Change the sequence settings to match the clip settings.

It is important that you do this before you start to edit. When you edit a clip into a sequence with mis-matched settings, FCP will make some modifications to the Motion settings of the clip in the sequence to make it fit. These modifications do not go away once you change the sequence settings.

These changes are tricky to catch and change unless you have a pretty good knowledge of both FCP and the differences between video standards, codecs, etc.

Best,

Tom