Waveform Size in Timeline

He is talking about "zooming" the waveform scale up. In otherwords, not making the track taller or focusing in on a frame to magnify the view of the timeline, nor changing the gain on the clip to make the waveform larger. He means zoom the scale up, so that the height of the waveforms are magnified to reveal a more sensitive readout of quieter audio.

It's not a FCP option, so I can understand why people do not understand the question, but it is a great feature of other software.

There is no way to magnify the graphic display of the waveform in FCP, it only increases if you increase the gain. You can however do this in Soundtrack.

Try adjusting the height of the track in question. You can also cycle thru a variety of track heights hitting shift-T while the timeline is active or using the "toggle track height" tool at the bottom of the track panel

Hi,
all the way to the left of the timeline you will see a thin light line,that separates the individual tracks if you click on that line with your mouse you can drag the audio track to a pretty large size, not unlike pro tools in a way. and then you can edit to 1/100 of a frame if I'm not mistaken.

Changing the waveform scale is a great feature that I miss from my Avid days. But it seems that you have no control of this in Final Cut. Opening the clip in the viewer does what people suggest but the whole point is to have a larger waveform in the timeline.

Not sure I understand what you think you are missing. If you want a larger waveform display in the timeline, expand the timeline track size. There are four automatic options at the bottom left of the timeline window. But you can also drag at the thin gray separation line of each track. Make it as big as you want. If you want to see it spread out..., zoom into the track by pressing (opt =). Or choose the zoom tool by pressing z and clicking on a spot you want to zoom in to.

What else are you looking for?

double click the audio in the timeline which will load that clip in the viewer. Any adjustments you make in the viewer will reflect in your timeline. That way you can keep your timeline tracks small if you need and see a much larger representation of your waveform.

if you can't see the audio waveform in the viewer because it is too small then you have no audio to speak of. The waveform is huge in the viewer. And if you expand the track size you can make it pretty big as well.

Then use the proper tool. Final Cut Studio is more than just Final Cut Pro. You can do this in Soundtrack Pro. And roundtripping makes it easy.

Oh this might be it, take it into sound track pro and normalize the audio, maybe

Have you tried dragging down the bottom right corner of the viewer window ? This way you can make the viewer window as high as you like together with the inside waveform.

If you have a stereo channel and want to enlarge a single channel (right or left only) just unlink first the stereo pair (select and alt-L) and then open the selected channel in the large viewer: the waveform height will double.

Piero

Yes I already mentioned that earlier in this thread.