Multiclip Editing – Audio – Final Cut Pro

[Stace Carter]

This is a little complicated – After you do the video edit, you’ll do another “multicam” edit but adjust your Viewer’s playhead sync popup from “Video” to Audio->All, and then switch away without regard to the video. You’ll notice now that when you’re switching angles during playback that the green box (audio) indicates your selected AUDIO source and the Blue box (video) will bounce to the active video angle as you had previously selected in your video edit pass. Having made that change in the Viewer’s playhead sync popup, you are, at this point, only switching the audio.

This does raise the question of whether it’s the best method though – cutting audio like this can be somewhat heavy handed and introduce abrupt level changes and pops; I can’t imagine a scenario where you wouldn’t need to perform additional audio post on the show after making these cuts, so I’d advise you try a short segment in FCP, and compare that workflow with simply bringing all of your audio, along with the finished video edit, in to STP and see how quickly (play with automation) you can make the edits in audio land.

Cheers,
Stace

Apple Certified Trainer

[Russell Parks]

Thank you Stace,

I sat down and went over this many times in my mind last night and I did play around with doing the audio only edits. The problems of drastic level changes did appear.

My director wants audio changes per track so the multi edit in FCP will not be the best solution. STP here I come. I made that decision last night to follow that course. Thank you for you post, it validated my course of action.

Thanks a Billion,