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229Final Cut Pro User Guide
Combine audio from multiple takes
By default, an audition lets you choose only one voiceover take to use in your project. If
you want to combine portions of two separate takes into one “comp” take, you can break
the audition into separate audio clips, which you can then edit and combine as needed.
1. In Final Cut Pro, select an audition in the timeline, then choose Clip > Break Apart Clip
Items (or press Shift-Command-G).
Final Cut Pro replaces the audition selected in the timeline with the individual
recordings that made up the audition.
2. Edit the clips as needed.
Tip: You can silence unwanted sections rather than edit them out. See Adjust volume
automatically across a selected area.
Access external audio files in Final Cut Pro
Post-production professionals often download stock music and sound effects and maintain
their own library of audio files (in addition to more than 1300 royalty-free sound effects
available in Final Cut Pro).
You can create custom folders in the Sound Effects category of the Photos and Audio
sidebar that link to external collections of audio files, providing quick access to the
files from any Final Cut Pro project. These custom folders can contain multiple levels of
subfolders so that your audio files remain organized the way you like.
If you add or remove files in the external audio library, the changes appear in the Sound
Effects category after you quit and reopen Final Cut Pro.
The following instructions assume that you have an existing set of audio files (such as
sound effects or music) in a folder on your Mac.
1. In the Finder, select the top-level folder that contains the audio files you want to access
from Final Cut Pro.
2. Choose File > Make Alias (or press Command-L).
3. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder, then enter the following in the “Go to the
folder” field:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Final Cut Pro Sound Effects/