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Chapter 8 Editaudio 170
Editaudioclipsoraudiocomponents
Audio editing overview
Final Cut Pro includes tools for editing audio clips or multiple audio channels. You edit audio in
two ways, detailed below.
Volume control
Clip-level audio editing
You can make audio adjustments and edits to whole clips. At this level, audio adjustments and
eects are applied to the entire clip, including any audio channels within the clip. Final Cut Pro
preserves any adjustments you make to individual audio channels. This means that if you reduce
the volume for a single channel but raise the volume for the whole clip, the volume of the single
channel is raised but stays in proportion to the volume of other channels in the clip.
If your source media contains only one or two audio channels or you’re editing an audio-only
clip, you’ll probably only need to make adjustments and edits at this level.
Advanced multichannel audio editing
Final Cut Pro automatically groups channels into audio components according to how the
channels are congured for the clip. You can expand the audio portion of clips to reveal and edit
audio components down to the individual channel level. This allows you to apply dierent eects
to dierent components and streamlines the process for making quick sound cutouts to a single
microphone input or other ne adjustments.
Important: Many digital audio le formats, such as AAC and MP3, use interleaved stereo les,
which do not contain separate left and right channels. These les appear as a single audio
component unless you change the clip’s channel conguration.
Keep in mind the following when editing audio components in Final Cut Pro:
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You view and change the audio channel conguration of your clips in the Audio inspector.
You can change audio component names, add or remove audio components, and congure
channels in mono, stereo, and surround formats. See Congure audio channels on page 171.
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With the Range Selection tool (the default editing tool), you can quickly select ranges within
an audio component to target the audio you want to edit.
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You can edit audio components for synchronized clips, multicam clips, and compound clips.
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You edit audio components in the same way you edit whole clips. You can:
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Skim individual components when clip skimming and audio skimming are turned on. See
Skim media on page 80.
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Adjust the volume of a component. See Adjust volume on page 174.
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