Hey guys it's Mark here from Editors Keys and today we're gonna teach
you how to record perfect voiceover straight into Final Cut Pro X, by the end
of this step-by-step guide we'll show you exactly how to record voiceover without
any complicated equipment or previous knowledge and stick around because at
the end of the video we've got something special just for you. So we've had so
many requests on how to do this but before we jump into Final Cut Pro X it's
important that the environment is good so make sure you turn off the aircon
unit turn off any fridges or anything that emanates those humming noises and
make sure you shut those windows as well just to block out some traffic noises
next we're going to plug in the USB microphone we're using the SL600 USB
broadcast microphone and a pop filter but you can of course use any USB
microphone on the market there's some great ones out there. Okay now we've got
everything set up let's jump straight into Final Cut Pro X and show you how
easily this is done. Ok so we're going to jump into Final Cut Pro X but before
you do that you want to make sure that your USB microphone is being picked up
by your Mac and to do that first of all go to System Preferences and then come
into the sound setting here once you're in there just make sure you come along
to input at the top here and then make sure your USB microphone is selected
here and then you want to make sure that the audio level is recording around 80%
so your audio level should get to about this point here and that's the perfect
point so you can edit it nicely and it's not going to peak it's not going to be
too loud so once you've done that we're gonna jump over to Final Cut Pro X and
as you can see here we've got an edit open and this is the Instagram stories
post that we did the other day with Andie and it's a fantastic post if you haven't
seen that tutorial it's a great tutorial on how to really improve your Instagram
story game, so make sure you check that out but basically we're gonna use this
as an example and let's pretend that we wanted to record some voice over here at
this point in our timeline all you need to do is first of all now you've
selected your USB microphone within your system preferences you want to open the
'record voiceover' dialog box now that can't be
found from up here by going to window and then down here to record voiceover
but as you know I love a keyboard shortcut and you can also access it by
pressing CMD + option + 8 and then that brings up the record
voiceover option here so what you want to do next is you want to make sure you
recall it sorry you want to name it something that you can remember so I'll
call this 'voice-over test' there we go you want to make sure that your input
again is selected as your USB microphone and then you've got other options here
to count down to record and that's the little countdown time you'll have before
it starts recording and then you have some other options there but basically
that's that when you're ready all you simply do is press the record button
here. Now, I can't do that at the moment because I'm capturing the screen
recording here to show you how to do it but if you press that record button that
will start to record your voiceover directly into Final Cut and that's the
great thing is that you can kind of watch your video playback as you're
doing the voice-over so it's a really good way of getting your timings perfect
and so you can comment live you know for things that happening on-screen which is
really really good tour once you're done simply press this button here and that
will stop the recording and that's it you've got your voiceover recorded
directly into Final Cut Pro X okay and that's how easily it's done
you've got your voiceover recorded so I hope you found that useful if you did
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you in the next video