Music
one of the must-have effects if you're a musician you create music videos or you
just want to visualize the audio this is the fcpx audio visualizer 2 plugin for Final Cut
Pro before we dive into Final Cut Pro and see the plugin in action how we can use it
and what it can do for us if you are interested to get this plugin you will find a link in the
description of this video down below and if you use the coupon code Amino pixel you will get a
discount I'm not telling you the discount I'm gonna let you be surprised thank you
to pixel film studios for always supporting this Channel and let's go into Final Cut Pro
let's go and see how we can work with the fcpx audio visualizer 2 from Pixel film studios as
soon as you download the plugin you will see that enter the titles on the left you have all
the different adjustment layered Channel averages and full spectrum that you need
for this plugin to work we have an adjustment layer where we can place any effects that we
want our visualizers to have we have the channel averages that are Drop Zone outline pattern save
replicator and single shape and also we have a full spectrum that means left and right channel
that we can use them as circles as lines or as rectangles in order to visualize the audio the
first thing that you need to do is to place the audio you're going into the PF face fcpx
audio visualizer too and from there you see two things the channel averages and the full spectrum
what I found very useful is to create a new project I will place the audio here also the
channel averages and the full spectrum the generators and then I will synchronize with
the audio so I can break any parts of the audio with the generator the visualizers so
I can work with different sections of the audio let's see how we're gonna do that
so I'm gonna bring the audio and I'm gonna zoom out
then I will bring the channel averages analyzer I will make it the same length and I'm gonna bring
the full spectrum analyzer again same length now from here I will go as you can see in the
inspector panel on the right and I will load and analyze audio file I will click here and I
will select the track that I'm gonna use you see analysis finished now the same thing I'm gonna
do it for the channel averages analyzer again on the inspector panel on the right a pro tip here if
we go into the effects go to audio EQ and drag the channel EQ into our song and then play the
song along with the analyzer we will see exactly which ranges or frequencies we are going to use
for the plugin to work the best load and analyze audio file I'm selecting my audio file and done
from here I will go to the titles I will select for example the full spectrum lines I will play
them into the timeline then I will select the full spectrum analyzer and I will click on copy
analysis data I will select the lines go into the spectral panel and click on paste data simply as
that I'm waiting for it to load and what we're doing here is that we're synchronizing the audio
to visualize it through the visualizer titles when it finish we can see that now we have a
left and right channel that it's going among with our music you see the visualization if we go into
the inspector panel on the right we will see that we have a ton of different parameters that
we can change into this plugin now let's start for example we can see the left and the right
frequencies that we can select the frequencies that we want to visualize and of course the
smoothness that we want them to have also the smoothness here plays a crucial role on how smooth
we want the visual animation to be so if we don't have a smoothness here we're gonna see that the
peaking of the visualizer is going to be extremely fast so if you have slow songs or you want to give
that smooth the slow into your visualizers then adjust the smoothness accordingly also
we have transform controls where we can change the position and the rotation we can select the shape
if we want them to be bars or we want them to be arrows for example whichever shape we select we
will have the different parameters to adjust from wherever it says arrows for example or bars where
it was before since we have the bars selected we go under the bars and we can change the width
the length or the edge type of the visualizer for example if we go here on this Frame we can change
the length the width Etc as we scroll down we see the style controls if we want the blend
modes to be passed through or any other blend more than they are available in Final Cut Pro
and what I like to do here as you can see on the Left Channel and the right channel the
left shapes and the right shapes I like to have them separated on different layers so what I do
is to press option select the one layer with the lines and simply double gate it I will assign one
on the left and one on the right for example here I disable the left and then on the right
I disable the right shape
I told you before that I create a new project because when I have the audio in my project I
can go and break and cut for example here the layer that I want with the blades and place
it exactly where the audio is on my main project this is going to be very handy for you now if you
see here we have the controls that we can adjust I will go to the bottom here the camera controls are
we can adjust the position and the rotation and why I like to use a different layers is that I can
create you see as I play here I can select this and I can adjust it to zoom in and then rotate
for example here and place it wherever I want on the X Y Z and make the rotations as you see
now I can go where the position and the rotation are I can add keyframes
and to the zoom and I can go to the beginning and set everything to zero that way I can create
an animation only for the right channel only for one of the two lines the controls on the
inspector panel as you see on the right shapes because that's what this layer has enabled we
can change the color if we want a different color also we can change the depth of field Blair amount
at the bottom we can change the focus offset near focus of our Focus if we want to be infinite we
can change all the different parameters if we play with a lot of layers and we want to make
this 3D animation of the visualizers with the plugin also we get an adjustment layer where
we can place all the different effects that we want the visualizers to have this plugin comes
with glint glow rays and gradient as for effects now what I would suggest you to do is to select
the layer that you want to place the effect and press option Z to create a compound clip
and then place the effect and I'm gonna tell you why because if you don't do that with the compound
clip the effects these are titles so they can be used as adjustment layers as well they're gonna
be on the actual footage as well to give you an example if we go into the timeline of the intro
you see here that I placed the gradient effect as a compound clip because if I didn't place that
as a compound clip and here you see the glow it would go into the footage on the down as well on
this example here that you saw in the beginning if you go into the inspector panel you will see that
I have changed the length of the bars and I have played a lot with the keyframes on the position on
the depth offset that I Can See For example here as you can see the depth offset gives you this
very nice depth that you can use the width and the eggs Y and Z angle offset and lastly an
example of a single shape that we discussed earlier is this triangle here that you saw
in the beginning that it's popping you see here this is a single shape that we can get the data
from the channel averages analyzer so what do you think about this plugin let me know in the comment
section down below thank you so much for watching I'm Emilio and I will see you in the next video (Greek phrase for "see you later")