Adjusting audio volume directly in the waveform

You can adjust the Loudness parameters in the Audio Enhancements, or you can use the volume control on the waveform itself ( Figure 5, below).įigure 5. There are couple of different ways to adjust volume. Now you can apply your audio edits and rest assured that nothing you do to the audio file is going to affect the video file.įigure 4. To do so, click the clip and choose Clip > Break Apart Clip Items ( Figure 4, below). I already analyzed the clip during import and FCP X detected no problems with the audio (as indicated by the green checkmark next to Audio Analysis in Figure 2, above), so we can move on to Audio Enhancements.Ĭick the white circled arrow to the right of 'No Problems Detected,' and FCP X will open the Audio Enhancements panel with Loudness controls, Background Noise Removal, and Hum Removal, as shown in Figure 3 (below).īut the first thing you should do before you start any audio editing is to break the audio and the video portions of the clip apart. Choose Audio to see FCP X's Volume and Pan settings and Audio Enhancements ( Figure 2, below). There you can choose the Video, Audio, or Info tab. To begin, click the clip in the timeline and open the Inspector window. There are a couple of different audio controls you can use to boost the volume. After we've accomplished both those tasks, we'll remove the pops and the clicks. We'll start by boosting the audio volume, and when we do that we're going to increase some background noise that we'll want to minimize. The low-volume clip we'll work with in the tutorial Number two, if you play the audio file (begin at 0:40 in the clip above) you'll hear two big pops in the audio track of the clip shown in Figure 1.įigure 1. The audio peaks should be up towards the top of the waveform. The video above shows a clip I'm working on, and there are a couple of problems that you can see immediately in Figure 1 (below). In this tutorial we'll explore some fixes you can try in Final Cut Pro X. Background noise and pops and clicks in audio are an unfortunate fact of life for many productions.

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