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276Final Cut Pro User Guide
Sync clips using custom settings
1. In the Final Cut Pro browser, select the audio or video clips you want to sync.
2. Do one of the following:
• Choose Clip > Synchronize Clips (or press Option-Command-G).
• Control-click the selection and choose Synchronize Clips.
3. In the window that appears, type a name for the synced clip in the Synchronized Clip
Name field.
4. Click the In Event pop-up menu and choose the event in which you want to create the
new synced clip.
5. If you want the synced clip’s timecode to start at a value other than the earliest
timecode value in the selected clips (the default), type a timecode value in the Starting
Timecode field.
6. To sync clips using audio waveform data, select “Use audio for synchronization.”
This option makes precision sync adjustments using audio waveforms.
Note: Some audio recordings are not suited for use with this feature. Selecting this
option may result in long processing times during which Final Cut Pro is not available for
editing.
7. If you want Final Cut Pro to disable the audio in clips containing both video and audio,
select “Disable audio components on AV clips.”
For example, if you record dual-system sound (with a reference audio track on the video
camera and a high-quality audio-only recording on a separate sound recorder), you can
disable the reference track that was recorded on the camera after you finish syncing the
video to the high-quality audio.