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20 Part I An Introduction to Final Cut Pro

Step 5: Mixing audio

Once your movie is edited and the picture is “locked,” meaning the duration of the

movie is fixed and you no longer intend to change any of the edits, you can begin

working more extensively on your audio. This involves:

Â Cleaning up the dialogue with more detailed audio editing, balance audio levels, and

equalization

Â Adding sound effects, music, and voiceover on additional audio tracks in the

sequence

Â Mixing the levels of all the different clips together to create a balanced sound mix

You can use Final Cut Pro for each of these processes. For more information, see

Volume III, Chapter 1, “Overview of Audio Mixing.”

Note: You can also sweeten your audio with another audio application, perhaps even

at another facility. To export your movie audio, see Volume IV, Chapter 11, “Exporting

Audio for Mixing in Other Applications.”

Step 6: Adding effects

Creating effects tends to be more time-consuming than cuts-only editing, so it’s good

to focus on basic edits first and work on effects when the timing of your project is

finalized. Effects are any enhancements you want to make to your footage, such as

color correction, special transitions, animation, still or motion graphics, multilayered

images (compositing), and titles. Final Cut Pro has a wide variety of video and audio

filters, each with parameters that you can keyframe to adjust over time in your

sequence, as described below.

Step 7: Outputting

Once editing is finished, effects are added, and the final audio mix is complete, you can

output your movie to videotape or film. You can also export to a QuickTime format for

web delivery or use in a DVD-authoring application, such as DVD Studio Pro.

If you need to finish your project on a different editing workstation, you can export

your project to an interchange file format such as EDL or Final Cut Pro XML Interchange

Format. You may need to output on another system if you work with uncompressed

video, do lots of real-time effects processing, or require specialized video monitoring.

For more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 12, “Importing and Exporting Final Cut

Pro XML.” You can also refer to Volume IV, Chapter 5, “Offline and Online Editing.”

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