Welcome to Final Cut Pro X in Under 5 Minutes, I'm Steve from RippleTraining.com.
We do a lot of video production here at Ripple Training and often we get questions regarding
what gear we use for our shoots.
Today I want to focus on recording audio using a lavaliere microphone.
Specifically a new mic recently released from Sennheiser called the ClipMic digital.
With this mic you can turn your iPhone or iPad into a professional digital audio recorder.
The mic itself is a high quality omni directional mic from Sennheiser, the mic is attached to
an iPhone or iPad using the lightning port which frees up the headphone jack so you can
directly monitor the audio thats being recorded.
But, the on component that truly makes the microphone amazing, is the little preamp / A
to D converter thats hardwired between the mic and the lightning connector.
Designed by Apogee, this pre-amp overrides the inferior internal pre-amps of iPhones
giving you pristine sounding recordings.
In order to turn your iPhone into a field recorder, download the free MetaRecorder app
from Apogee.
While you can use other recording apps, this one has some unique advantages for Final Cut
Pro X users but more on that in a moment.
There is both a free version and a paid version of the app, but if you own the mic the paid
version can be unlocked once the mic is connected to the lightning port.
To get started tap the + button to create a scene.
By default scenes are generically named, by tapping the scene name you can enter a custom
one.
I recommend doing this as it will create easily identifiable events once you import the XML
into Final Cut Pro . Back in the create page, you can tap file name format, then decided
what metadata you want included with your recordings.
Back on the create page, you can change the sample rate, but depth, and file format.
I'll leave these at their defaults, but whats really cool is that by tapping Input name
Roles.
You can assign custom Role metadata to your recordings so that they import into Final
Cut Pro already tagged with your custom Role name.
Here I'll type out Steve then tap done.
To record individual takes into your scene tap the record play button then begin speaking,
as your recording you can the the marker button to designate the beginning or ending of the
performance.Tap the stop button to halt recording.
to add more useful metadata, double tap the waveform, then tap the star to tag the take
as a favorite, double tap again, then tap keywords to create a custom keyword collection
for the take.
Markers can also be gien unique names