ABSTRACT
Video is primarily a visual medium, but often the moment an edit occurs is driven more by the sound than by the picture. Truthfully at least 50% of a video is the audio. When clips are expanded the video and audio can be trimmed independently. To select the audio edit or the video edit, you can simply click on the expanded audio editor in the video edit. The chapter looks at working with sound in Final Cut Pro. It covers working with split edits, cutting with sound, meters, overlapping and cross-fading tracks, Loudness and Audio Enhancements, audio matching and surround panning, editing music, and using markers. The chapter shows the power of Roles and the use of the Index in creating lanes, as well as being introduced to FCP's audio recording tool. Sound is oft en overlooked because it doesn't seem to be that important, but it is crucial to making a production appear professionally edited.
