Welcome back to another Final Cut Pro X tutorial! Today is all about panning your
audio left or right. Let's dig right in. Today we're gonna show you how to pan
audio, which allows you to distribute sound across channels in Stereo or
Surround. This can create a more immersive environment for the ears. We
recommend wearing headphones for this video or listening in stereo. Let's start
by selecting an audio clip. Then, navigate to the Inspector on the top right. If the
Inspector is not showing, click on this icon. Then click on the audio icon. In the
Pan section of the Inspector, click on the Mode popup menu and choose Stereo
Left/Right. We can move the sound left or right by dragging on this slider.
Here's how that sounds.
And to pan audio for surround sound, click on the Mode popup menu. There are
several options here that we encourage you to try. Dialogue will send more signal
to the center channel while ambient sound is distributed to other channels.
Rotate will pan the sound as if the listener is turning in a circle.
Ambience will pan more of the signal
towards the surroundings and less towards the front and center.
Let's set it to Basic Surround.
We can use the Surround Panner to change the surround sound field. This control
moves the sound source.
We can also click the speaker icon to turn it on or off.
If we need to move the control back to the center position,
we'll just double-click it. Brace yourself because we have a lot to
go over. If we navigate to this Advanced section
we can make even more adjustments. Original/Decoded adjusts the balance
between original and decoded signals.
Ambient/Direct adjusts the balance between decoded surround and center signals.
Surround Width specifies how much separation is between the surround signals.
LFE Balance distributes low-frequency effects from no signal to the LFE channel.
LFE stands for low frequency effects and focuses more on deep, low-pitched sounds like bass.
Rotation will rotate all surround signals to the left or right in a circular way.
Stereo Spread adjusts the amount of stereo effect from the left and right
channels to the center and surround speakers.
Attenuate/Collapse adjusts the way the panning is implemented.
At zero the source signals' volumes change and they are not diverted to other channels.
And Collapse means the opposite: Source signals do not change in volume and
instead are moved to other channels.
Finally, Center Balance adjusts the balance between the center and surround signals.
We can reset an edited Pan mode by clicking on the Pan mode pop up menu and choosing another preset.
To reset adjustments to the Surround Panner, we can click on the Reset button to the right of it.
And to reset all adjustments, hover over the pan row in
the Audio Inspector, and click on the reset button on the right.
Whether you decide to pan left, pan right, pan forward, pan back, now you are a panning expert in Final Cut Pro.
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