From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Web Video with Graphics

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Checking video and audio levels

Checking video and audio levels

- Now before we export our final product, it's important that we check our video and audio levels. Let's see a few ways we can monitor and control this in Final Cut Pro 10. So to follow along, I'm here on my chapter 6.1, keyword collection, and I double click my project over in the timeline. You could also follow along with one of the projects you've been using from an earlier movie, feel free. And here we're just going to be checking to make sure all of our audio and video is safe, and there's a few rules of thumb that I'll give you. One is that you really don't want your audio to go above zero DB overall. So there's a few ways to check this in Final Cut. One is, Final Cut tries very hard in the timeline to tell you if your audio is peaking. Just think about it this way, if you ever see yellow, it means that you're approaching zero DB. If you see red, say "no," because it's way too much, it is zero DB. So this reveals it on a clip by clip basis, not the overall combined sound. Sp let…

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