today I'll show you how to quickly mute audio sections and remove unwanted audio noises using
the range selection tool and a bunch of other goodies with audio to speed up your final cut
workflow I'm Rafael and welcome to the channel okay I'm gonna show you how to get a good grasp
on your audio and address audio issues like peaking or reducing breath sounds there isn't
a way to do Auto ducking in Final Cut but to do it manually shouldn't take that long so for
instance in these two sections I can see that I take a nice deep breath and I want to reduce
that sound and over here there's a there's an audio that I want to reduce so let's just show
you the quickest and easiest way that I found to address the audio one of my favorite and easiest
ways is is using the range tool so press R select the area that you want and just drag it down it
doesn't have to be all the way down I don't bring it down to zero for breaths I like to have it in
otherwise it feels a little bit unnatural let's do another section so I'm gonna select this area
and just drag it down and if you notice it has a nice ease in and ease out let's just zoom in
so it creates a nice ease in and ease out into that dip and then over here let's just do one
more I just want to drop this down just a little bit so the range tool is a great and easy way to
do that now I'm gonna show you a way to do this even quicker for more problematic areas so I'm
just gonna undo all that but it takes a second of setup that you'll never have to do again but it's
so worth it it's about using the adjust volume silence in particular add fades in and out but
none of these have shortcuts so going to the menu actually slows you down so setting up the menu one
time is going to save you so much time in the future so click on the Final Cut Pro commands
customize or option command K so it brings up the command editor so first thing is just duplicate
it let's call this whatever you want it to be I'm just gonna name it my own set and I want
to look for the audio for the audio components and right now if you click on the - you'll show
you that control - will decrease the audio by one decibel and the equal sign will raise the volume
by one decimal so what I want to do is because I want to silence it I'm gonna click on the search
bar silence set volume to silence I'm gonna click control shift - so now the modifiers are control
shift - and if I save this out go to the section that I want to address and I press R for my range
selection click that select the part that I want hit control shift - it'll automatically drop it
down without me having to pull pull it down every single time so range selection and it's done let's
just grab another one the range selection just where the breath is and let's take a listen to
that anyways guys that's it as always thanks for watching give this video big thumbs up and there's
another one right there so I can just quickly go and add another bring down that breath to zero you
can always go back in and adjust it if it feels too unnatural if you push it too far so another
quick way that you can do this is using the range selection tool you select the range that you want
and you can just push V and it will disable that audio and you can always bring it back by
dragging those in and outs or the other thing is with the range selection and just pushing delete
and it'll disable that it doesn't get rid of it it just turns off that piece of audio but
just know if you do that without expanding the audio it will delete that portion of the clip so
be very careful to make sure that if you're using that method you can either right click and expand
audio or ctrl S or double click right on the audio below the volume line if you click above
nothing happens if you click below it opens so now that we added keyboard shortcuts to silence
let's add some to apply fades remove fades toggle fade in and out so I'll explain what these are as
well so I'm just gonna create a few edits here just so you can understand what's happening so
these are all separate clips so if we go to the modify menu go to adjust volume and then apply
fades it add fades in and out on both sides and this is a fantastic way to adjust the fade in and
fade out so if you want to just do the fade in or the fade out you can add that you know have
that on on the end of the clip but not on the out of the clip so I just recommend going back in to
customize for the command editor and just type in fade and bring up all those audio attributes
that you weren't using before so for fade let's just see what's under F so I want to add a fade
so option command is available so I'm going to add option command F command option shift F to
remove for toggle audio fade in I'm gonna do ctrl command F audio fade out control shift F so then
you save this close it and I'm gonna push ctrl command F and I get the end and then for this
one I want the out so will be control shift F and I have the out for that now if I want to remove
that you push the same command for putting it in as taking it out so it's an easy way to quickly
add in those fades without having to pull in and adjust that now if you want the duration to be a
little bit different you can go to editing and add audio fade duration to set it to whatever
you want right now it's at 0.5 seconds so it's about half a second fade in fade out the other
thing that you guys need to check out is the sound effects that are built in right into Final
Cut now there are so many sound effects that you can use that are royalty-free that you can just
use for whatever you need so you have your bell if you're building your time line make sure you
check these out because there is tons and tons of sound effects that are built right in so you
don't have to go searching for a lot of it so you can just go and find a lot of stuff that you do
want not to say that there are a lot of sound effects that you can use for your own projects
make sure you check out the sound effects part of it but beyond that that's it as always thanks for
watching give this video big thumbs up subscribe I'm Raphael I'll talk to you soon bye for now