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Keyframing and using the Range tool for smart ducking

Keyframing and using the Range tool for smart ducking - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X

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Keyframing and using the Range tool for smart ducking

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- [Narrator] Finally Cut 10 has quick robust key framing for its audio. Especially if we need to duck under say, narration clips, let's see how that works. Here on the timeline, I'm going to do a bunch of adjustments to work on my audio. And I'm going to start off with grabbing all three of these clips, and that looks like their audio levels were pretty high at the start. I'm going to go up to modify, I'm going to say adjust volume, and I can adjust them from their absolute original value. Now if they originally were at zero, I'd like them to be background items, I'm going to put them at about minus 30 or so. So, I'll type in minus 30, I'll press the enter key, and they all got lowered maybe a little too much. So, to raise them back up, I'm now going to use under modify the up and down, that's control + equals and control + minus. In this case it's upwards so control + equals. I'm just going to lift them back up til we see just a little bit of those waveforms. Here, underneath this…

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