Even though Final Cut Pro
has some great audio editing tools,
it’s still not quite as powerful
as a standalone audio editing apps,
such as Audacity, Adobe Audition,
Logic Pro and more.
Today, we’ll take a look
at how you round trip your audio from Final Cut Pro
into a standalone editing app,
and back into Final Cut Pro.
Hey guys, whats up.
My name is Serge
and welcome back to my channel.
First, let’s take a look
at exporting audio from a single clip.
Say, for example, we want to edit the audio in this clip.
Select your clip in the browser,
click the share button in the top right corner,
and select Master File.
Click on the settings tab,
and from the format dropdown menu,
select Audio Only.
Choose your Audio File Format,
and click Next.
Give your file a name,
select your save destination and hit Save.
Final Cut Pro will export an Audio only file,
that can now be enhanced in a standalone audio app.
For this example,
let’s open our audio file with Audacity,
and use it to enhance our audio.
Here you can use the tools
that aren’t available in Final Cut Pro,
such as noise reduction,
click removal and more.
Personally, I like to apply all my audio enhancements here,
even the ones available in Final Cut Pro.
If you want to learn more
about the steps I take in enhancing my audio,
down in the video description below,
I’ll link a video I did a while back,
about enhancing voiceovers in audacity.
Check it out when after you finish watching this video.
Once you’re done,
export your edited audio file.
Make sure to change the file name
if you want to keep the original audio file.
Next, import this audio file back into Final Cut Pro.
To synchronize the new audio file to the video clip,
command click the audio file,
and the original video clip to select both.
Right click on either of the selected clips,
and select Synchronize Clips.
In the popup window,
make sure both these check boxes are selected,
and click OK.
Final Cut Pro creates a new synchronized clip,
with the original audio
replaced by the enhanced audio.
This new clip can now be used in your timeline
just like any other clip.
Let’s take a look at another example.
This time, instead of using a single clip,
we’ll take a look at how to export audio
from an entire project.
As you can see in our timeline,
in addition to the camera audio,
this project has a few sound effects,
and some background music.
If we export it like we did before,
all the audio from this project will be exported in a single file.
Any effects applied to this,
will be applied to the camera audio,
as well as the background music
and all the sound effects.
For this example,
we only need to enhance the voice track,
and leave the background music,
and the sound effects untouched.
To do this, first,
make sure all clips in your timeline
have the proper audio roles.
You can tell this by the color of the clips,
or you can check this by selecting each clip,
and clicking the info tab in the inspector.
Make sure all the clips you want to enhance
have the same audio role applied to them,
and the clips you want to leave untouched
have different roles.
Next, same as before,
click the export button,
and select master file.
In the settings tab,
select Audio Only.
Click on the Roles Tab.
Here, from the Roles As dropdown menu,
select Audio Only as Separate Files.
Next, click the little Xs
beside the Music and Effects roles,
and set your output channels
for the Audio you want to export.
Click next,
name your file,
and hit the save button.
Only your audio with the selected role
will be exported as a separate audio file.
You can now edit this track in your audio app,
and import it back into Final Cut Pro.
Place your playhead at the start of your project,
and with the new audio file selected,
press Q to connect it to your timeline.
Zoom in to make sure your audio waveforms
line up perfectly,
and make any adjustments if necessary.
You can now either disable
or delete your original audio,
and you’re done.
We’ve just replaced all our camera audio,
while leaving the music
and sound effects untouched.
Like I mentioned before,
Final Cut Pro has some very powerful
audio editing tools built right in
that are sufficient for most people.
But if you need tools that you don’t have
in Final Cut Pro,
such as noise removal,
this method could be a lifesaver.
And if you’re interested in learning
how to enhance your voiceover track in audacity,
make sure to check out the video
in the description.
Thanks for watching,
and I’ll see you back here next week.