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.
MacBook Air
Keyframes require you to do the ducking manually. That is way too time consuming.
I think EQ filter is better. But even better combined with an auto-ducking sensor, which nobody seems to have an answer for. I'm guessing FCP simply can't auto-duck (duck using a source/voice channel). Which is a problem.
Use keyframes at the various points in the audio you wish to raise or lower the volume.
Al
Should look something like this:
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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....
Select the clip/clips and reset to 0 db.
Al
Press A to return to the usual "Arrow" tool.
David ... this sounds REALLY cool. Please can you explain step by step how I would do this. I am a novice but a quick learner and this is exactly the effect I am looking for.
Editing takes time and sometimes, several shots to get it right regardless of the method used. 😀
Al
Shot of Jack Daniels for me. 🙂
I'm a coffee guy.
The coffee machine is part of the kit.
Cheers Tom.
Al
How do I make the volume of background clips lower and raise while a voice over is with the music?
