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Time Compression/Expansion plug-in for FCP?
I am an Avid editor who has just made the leap to FCP, and the one feature I CANNOT believe FCP lacks is Avid’s audio compression/expansion feature.
In my industry we constantly use this to help fit narration into increasingly tighter spaces.
It’s a built in part of Avid’s Audiosuite, but I’ve been told FCP has no such feature that can compress audio while maintaining pitch.
1. Is there a plug-in that accomplishes this task?
2. If not, what’s the work around?
In disbelief,
Zach
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3 Replies
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Well… yes and no. Final Cut Studio comes with Sountrack Pro, which has a compression feature.
It works great… but it’s a seperate program from FCP. So you have to learn 1) it’s interface and 2) you have to export and import files.
We feel your pain. Our 10 year old Media Composers have it… why doesn’t FCP?
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Zatchary, i actually just brought this up yesterday….
As CharlieX2 said, Soundtrack Pro can do it…. tho i find it inefficient and honestly produces poor results.
I too came from the Avid world originally, and this lacking feature is ridiculous.
I once looked into purchasing Digidesign’s plugin, but unfortunately it wont work with FCP (i even looked into methods of converting it into an FCP compatible format). This ability needs to work in conjunction directly in your FCP timeline to be of any practical use. I do hope that with enough complaints and encouragement from working professionals, Apple will come to their senses and add this plugin as built in internal standard,… or co-develop with a third party so that we can purchase this plugin, since it is very worth it.ive also tried a little app called “Amazing Slow Downer” which works “ok”… but again it works outside of FCP, and the sound quality is a bit poor….
if you can get away with using either of these for your offline rough cut (if applicable), and can afford a proper final mix, finishing (and recreating these) in protools is one way to go.
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