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226Final Cut Pro User Guide
3. To adjust the input level of the microphone, do one of the following:
• Drag the Input Gain slider right to increase the input level, or left to decrease it.
• Type a dB value in the Input Gain field.
Use the audio meters to make sure the volume doesn’t exceed peak levels (shown in
red), which may result in audible distortion.
Note: If the Input Gain slider is dimmed for a selected input device, try adjusting the
gain on the device itself or its software utility (if available).
4. To name your voiceover clip, click the Name field and type a name.
5. To specify other voiceover settings, click the Advanced disclosure triangle and do any
of the following:
• Change the input device or the number of input channels (mono or stereo): Click the
Input pop-up menu and choose an option. The default choice of System Setting uses
the first channel of the input device currently selected in the Sound pane of System
Preferences.
Tip: If you always want to record with a particular device or a particular channel
on a multichannel audio device, choose that device/channel pair from the Input pop-
up menu instead of System Setting. The setting is retained, and the Input pop-up
menu indicates whether the device is available.
• Listen to your microphone input as you record: Set Monitor to On. The microphone
audio plays from the output device currently selected in the Sound pane of System
Preferences. There’s no input signal when monitoring is off.
Tip: To listen to a live mix of both microphone and project audio, set Monitor to
On and deselect the “Mute project while recording” checkbox below.
• Adjust the monitoring level: Drag the Gain slider right to increase the monitoring
level, or left to decrease it (or type a dB value in the Gain field).
Note: If the built-in microphone is selected, the Gain slider automatically resets
to zero to prevent feedback from the built-in speakers when monitoring is turned
on. To avoid feedback, use headphones or external speakers placed away from the
microphone.
• Turn off the automatic countdown before recording: Deselect the “Countdown to
record” checkbox.
• Unmute project audio while recording: Deselect the “Mute project while recording”
checkbox.
• Turn off automatic grouping of multiple voiceover takes into auditions: Deselect the
“Create Audition from takes” checkbox.
• Change where the recording is saved: Click the Event pop-up menu and choose an
event in the current library.
• Assign a role to the recording: Click the Role pop-up menu and choose a role. To
create a new role, choose Edit Roles. See
Intro to roles in Final Cut Pro.