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232Final Cut Pro User Guide
• You edit audio components in the same way you edit whole clips. You can:
• Skim individual components when clip skimming and audio skimming are turned on.
See
Skim media in Final Cut Pro.
• Adjust the volume of a component. See Adjust volume in Final Cut Pro.
• Mute a component’s audio by disabling or silencing all or a portion of the
component. This is the fastest way to remove unwanted sounds from a component.
See
Solo and mute audio clips in Final Cut Pro.
• Trim a component’s start and end points. See Extend or shorten clips in
Final Cut Pro.
• Perform a roll edit on adjacent audio components. See Make roll edits in
Final Cut Pro.
• Apply fades or use fade handles to fade audio in at the beginning of an audio
component, or fade audio out at the end. See
Fade audio in and out in Final Cut Pro.
• Pan the sound for individual components. See Pan audio in Final Cut Pro.
• Assign a role (specifically, a subrole) to a component. See Intro to roles in
Final Cut Pro and View and reassign roles in Final Cut Pro.
• Add or adjust audio effects for individual components. See Add audio effects in
Final Cut Pro or Adjust audio effects in Final Cut Pro.
• Adjust audio effects for individual components using keyframes. See Keyframe audio
effects in Final Cut Pro.
For examples of multichannel audio editing workflows, see Final Cut Pro multichannel
audio editing examples.
Configure audio channels in Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro assigns a default channel configuration for audio clips when they’re imported
or added to a project. You can change the channel configuration—for example, to convert a
stereo dialogue clip to two mono channels.
Final Cut Pro automatically groups channels into audio components according to how the
channels are configured for the clip. See
Audio channels and components in Final Cut Pro.
In addition to changing the channel configuration, you can view and listen to audio
components and enable or disable audio components.
Change the channel configuration
The number of channel options you can configure depends upon how many channels
are in your source clip or compound clip. You can configure channels in several formats,
including:
• Mono: Single channel. In a surround sound setup, you can assign a mono channel to any
surround channel.
• Stereo: Left and right channels.
• 5.1 surround: Left, center, right, left surround, right surround, and low-frequency effects
(subwoofer bass) channels.
If you configure more than six surround channels, Final Cut Pro automatically adjusts the
channel mix down to 5.1 surround during playback.