Hello again, and welcome back
to my FCP 10 tutorial.
In this video I’m going to add some
music to my video and finish my rough draft.
This is part five of my series.
In parts one through four,
I went over importing & organizing media
and building a project.
If you haven’t watched my previous videos
and would like to check them out,
I’ll include a link up top and in the description.
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and any questions you may have
will be answered in the comments section.
In my previous videos, I imported media,
picked favourites and built a rough cut of my timeline.
I paced it with gap clips and added some
different angles to make it less boring.
Up to this point my speaker have been on mute,
so I could focus on the video part of my story.
This would be different if there was dialog in my timeline,
but since it was only sound effects, it wasn’t overly important.
Since my video is an action sequence,
I’m going to add some background music
and use it to pace my video.
When I imported my videos,
I also imported a few songs I downloaded.
You have to be very careful with copyrighted music,
because most songs, you must have
the artists permission to use their music.
YouTube has a great selection of royalty free music
that you are welcome use with either no strings attached,
or you have to give the artist credit
in the description if you post it online.
I’ll include the link to YouTube’s royalty free library
in my video description.
With my Bike Adventures project open in FCP,
I’ll click on the expand button in my smart collection
and choose audio only.
This brings up the songs I imported into my library.
Songs are green in colour, so they can easily be identified.
Pick a song you want to use,
and with the playhead cued to the beginning of the project,
click the connect button, or press Q.
The song is connected below my storyline.
Unlike video, where only your top layer is visible,
FCP mixes all your audio layers
and plays them at the same time.
From the clip appearance menu,
choose the audio waveform option
and adjust the clip height to make it easier to work with.
The music will be a little to loud,
so the first thing I’m going to do is turn down the clip volume,
by either clicking and dragging down this line,
or using keyboard shortcut Control & minus sign.
Bring the level down enough to get rid of the red peaks
and have it at a comfortable listening level.
We’ll do more fine tuning later on.
First thing we’ll do is isolate the song
from the other sounds and mark the beats.
When video is cut to the beat of a song,
it makes a pleasurable viewing experience.
To isolate the song, you select it and either
use this solo button or use keyboard shortcut Option S.
All other clips are now muted and greyed out.
Now I can listen to the song and mark
the beats by pressing M on my keyboard every beat.
If you mess up, pause the song
and either use command Z to undo or right click
on marker and choose delete marker.
If you have problems keeping up,
you can slow down the music.
FCP pitch corrects the audio,
so it still sounds like your song, just slower.
To slow it down click on the speed menu
and choose slow and whatever percentage you want.
The song will slow down
and make it easier to mark the beats.
After marking all your beats,
click on this bar above your sound clip
and choose normal to revert your song back to normal speed.
Click the solo button again to disable the solo function.
And change your clip appearance back to video thumbnails.
Now you can ripple trim your clips so the cuts,
or angle changes happen with beats in your song.
If you cut off a part of your clip that you like,
you can either ripple trim it to the next beat,
or slip edit your clip to choose the best part.
A slip edit is a safe edit for setting the B-roll clips
to their best content without disturbing other clips.
From the tools pop up menu choose the trim tool
or use keyboard shortcut T.
Click and drag your clip to your favourite part.
While you drag the clip, a two-up display appears in the viewer.
Image on the left shown you the start point of your clip,
and image on the right shows the end point.
I’ll go through my project, and ripple trim
and slip all my B-roll and cuts until it
syncs well with my song and looks good.
Next, Lets go through the audio in our video clips and adjust it.
There are two basic rules to mixing audio.
1.
never peak the meters, and
2.
if it sounds bad, change it.
Under your viewer display beside the time code
there’s a small set of audio meters.
Click on it to open up larger audio meters
to the right of your timeline.
First, right click on your song clip and disable it to mute it,
or select it and use keyboard shortcut V,
and change your clip appearance to audio waveforms.
Now, play and adjust every clip to make sure all audio
is close to the same level
and the overall audio mix does not peak above the 0 db mark.
A safe target is not to allow your
loudest audio to go above -6 db.
Watch your meters and make sure the peaks do not go over -6 db.
Use control - to turn down or control = to turn up the volume.
You want all your clips to have relatively same loudness,
and make sure your audio doesn’t peak.
Sometimes, cutting from one clip to the next,
the sound changes abruptly.
A quick solution to this is
to fade your audio in and out between clips.
Every audio clip has two fade handles, one on each end.
Click and drag these to fade your audio
in and out to make a smooth transition.
Also, sometimes one of your clips may have bad audio,
and the clip above or below it has much better audio.
Simply turn down the volume of your bad audio clip
and use the sound from the good audio clip.
I’m going to go through and adjust all my volume levels
to get a good level,
where both music and sound effects are both audible.
Don’t forget to enable the song we disabled earlier.
Last thing I want to show you
before this rough cut is finished
is how to add a basic cross dissolve transition.
FCP has a large number of different transitions,
and I’ll discuss them in one of my later videos.
For now, lets use the keyboard to apply
the default cross dissolve transition.
I’m going to apply one to the start of the video,
and since there’s no clips before it, it’ll fade in from black.
Click on the beginning of the first clip and press command T.
A cross dissolve is applied to the start of my video.
You can make transitions shorter or longer by ripple trimming.
If you play it, you can see my video fading in from black.
You can also cross dissolve between two clips.
Select the start or end of a clip and press command T.
Play through to see one clip fade into the next one.
A word of caution, overusing transitions
makes a video look very amateur, so use them sparingly.
I’m going to add a cross dissolve to the end of my video
and my rough cut is finished.
In my next video I’m going to show you
how to export and share the video,
and save the rough cut of my project.
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