From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
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Building a soundscape - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
Building a soundscape
Now that the actors' voiceovers are in place and repaired, it's time to bring back the sounds of the beach. Let's step inside 06-04a Ambience and go ahead and add back some waves and some birds and maybe a little bit of music. So the first thing I know I want is I do want that beach atmosphere, that beach ambience. Now all of these will be located in Part 3 under your Sound FX smart word collection. If you select that, you will see these three cuts, and we are just going to go ahead and choose Beach Ambience. And you can be pretty loose about this, you can just grab a selection because you can always trim it later, and you can either bring it down by hitting the E key, but make sure that your playhead is at the very beginning, I'll just drag and drop it to the beginning of the show. Let's go ahead and listen to the sounds of the beach. (audio playing) Well, if it was a hurricane, this would be a good sound effect, but right now it's a little bit too loud. Let's go ahead and move our…
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