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Q: How do I make the volume of background clips lower and raise while a voice over is with the music?

How do I make lets say a song in my movie lower and raise as a voice over is over it? i've seen people do it, i just cant seem to figure it out. i want a button like on iMovie.

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Posted on Nov 27, 2014 2:08 PM

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Q: How do I make the volume of background clips lower and raise while a voice over is with the music?

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  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Nov 27, 2014 2:14 PM in response to amyefrontz
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    Nov 27, 2014 2:14 PM in response to amyefrontz

    Use keyframes at the various points in the audio you wish to raise or lower the volume.

     

    Al

  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Nov 27, 2014 2:30 PM in response to Alchroma
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    Nov 27, 2014 2:30 PM in response to Alchroma

    Should look something like this:

    Screen Shot 2014-11-28 at 8.24.36 am.png

    Holding the Option key to enter Keyframes is a pretty direct method.

    Once entered you can drag the keyframes forward, backward, up or down to fine tune as desired.

     

    Al

  • by andynick,

    andynick andynick Nov 28, 2014 6:12 AM in response to amyefrontz
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    Nov 28, 2014 6:12 AM in response to amyefrontz

    Press the "R" key and on the music track, click where you want the change to start and drag to the end.

    The area will now be highlighted in yellow.

    Grab the audio level bar down to the required level and your audio will now have keyframes which "duck" the audio down during the narration and back up when it ends.

    Andy

  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Nov 28, 2014 7:59 AM in response to andynick
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    Nov 28, 2014 7:59 AM in response to andynick

    There are more sophisticated methods. The human voice occupies a specific range of frequencies. You can find those using the advanced functions of spectral display. Then you set up an equalizer filter on the music tracks to remove most of those freqs from the music. You can now keep the music fairly loud with our covering up the voice.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Nov 28, 2014 8:58 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1
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    Nov 28, 2014 8:58 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

    David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:

     

    There are more sophisticated methods. The human voice occupies a specific range of frequencies. You can find those using the advanced functions of spectral display. Then you set up an equalizer filter on the music tracks to remove most of those freqs from the music. You can now keep the music fairly loud with our covering up the voice.

     

    That may be true, but for a beginner that is overkill.

    Andy's method is by far the simplest. Make a selection and drag down. The keyframes are created by FCP X automatically.

     

    Screen Shot 2014-11-28 at 16.57.57.png

  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Dec 1, 2014 12:03 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Dec 1, 2014 12:03 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Setting equalizer levels is how one advances from being a hack with a super cool video app with features one cannot understand to a legitimate video editor and maybe even an artist. If all we ever did around here was only give entry level advice to beginners they'd never get any better than entry level beginners.

    I think beginners are fully capable of satisfying their curiosity with a desire to explore and understand how to use all the toys that come with their copy of FCPX.

  • by xiahyt,

    xiahyt xiahyt Apr 1, 2016 11:05 PM in response to andynick
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    Apr 1, 2016 11:05 PM in response to andynick

    Press the "R" key and on my music track, yes I can click on where I want the change, making volume down or up. But I cannot move the track any more. How I can go back? I mean back where I could move the track. What I should press? Hope I make myself clear....

  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Apr 1, 2016 11:53 PM in response to xiahyt
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    Apr 1, 2016 11:53 PM in response to xiahyt

    Select the clip/clips and reset to 0 db.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-04-02 at 4.43.59 PM.png

    Al

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Apr 2, 2016 4:27 AM in response to xiahyt
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    Apr 2, 2016 4:27 AM in response to xiahyt

    Press A to return to the usual "Arrow" tool.