
This is incredibly helpful as it allows you to organize your media even more precisely as it comes into FCPX. As long as you use the proper import settings. Also, tags added to media at the finder level-including folders-can turn into their own keyword collection upon import. You can import any iXML track name info alongside your audio files if your sound labeled their channels properly. (Let’s say you wanted to focus just on dialogue or only on music.) BEFORE Show Audio Lanes AFTER Show Audio Lanes Show Audio Lanes with Focus on Dialogue Role You can even solo one Lane at a time to focus in on one particular Role. Then click on Show Audio Lanes. This takes all your disparate audio clips and organizes them according to their Roles into separate Audio Lanes. When you’re ready to focus in on audio editing simply head back to your Timeline Index to your Roles tab. Normally you would spend some time neatening up your Timeline before you dove into audio editing but in the case of FCPX, all this neatening and organization is done with the click of a keystroke. Here you can create new roles, sub-roles and rename existing roles.Īssigning each audio clip a Role becomes incredibly helpful the more complicated your edit gets. Click on this to bring up the Role Editor. To create custom roles and sub-roles head over to the Timeline Index (CMD+SHIFT+2) and click on the Roles tab.Īt the bottom, you will find Edit Roles. You also have the power to create custom roles and sub-roles within FCPX to organize your project even further. When you import Audio into Final Cut you can assign it a specific Role (dialogue, music, SFX etc). Let’s first look at some of the tools and features you’ll use when first importing FCPX audio media. As you will soon find out, the number of FCPX audio features under the hood are vast. Don’t let the simplicity of FCPX’s interface fool you.

And also to see if FCPX gives you enough to avoid round-tripping another DAW. Today we’re going to dive the FCPX audio capabilities that might change your view.

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In most professional situations, you send audio out to Pro Tools or some other DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) upon picture-lock.īut what if you didn’t have to? What if your NLE gave you all the audio capabilities required to deliver a professional audio mix?

Even if you’re a top-flight FCPX audio wrangler. For the majority of post-workflows out there, the chances of you finishing your audio in your NLE are rare.
