Finding Audio Peaks?

[Michael Gissing]

If you export an aif of the mixdown and import that into an audio system like Pyramix you can get a maximum peak readout on the file without playing it at all.

Within FCP I doubt this is possible but someone may have come up with a good trick for this.

[Tom Wolsky]

If you’re longing for overmodulated audio use Mark>Audio>Show Peaks. It’ll look through the active sequence and use extended markers over areas that reach zero. You can also normalize it to set audio to a specific peak level.

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”

[Shiloh Heyman]

Dear Tom.

I was under the impresseion that Mark>Audio>Show Peaks only worked within a clip and not a eddited sequence of clips. If it is possible to mark all the peaked audio in a sequence, can you please tell in detail all of the steps in this process? Everytime I try, the function is greyed out unless i use it on a single clip in the viewer.

Thanks

Shiloh

[Tom Wolsky]

Make the timeline the active window. Make sure nothing is selected and select it from the menu. It’s important to do it in the timeline because it combines track volumes.

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”

[Shiloh Heyman]

Thanks Tom,

I had to make sure that none of the clips in the timeline were selected for it to work.

Thanks again

Shiloh