Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

6

Fixing and Enhancing the Audio

In the previous chapter, we completed the rough cut, reaching a fixed duration and moving to picture lock, ready for the final stages of color correction and audio sweetening. This chapter takes a look at the more advanced methods of audio correction, assuming that the basic volume level adjustments are already known.

Good audio is more important in a video than the images themselves. Viewers will stop watching a video with questionable audio much faster than one with acceptable audio but marginal video quality. To help improve the audio of imported media, Final Cut Pro ships with a myriad of audio filters, mostly borrowed from Apple’s own Logic Pro application. A deep understanding of all these filters and their ...