From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
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Preparing to fix audio - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
Preparing to fix audio
In this chapter, we're going to explore how you can find and repair audio problems. Now let's step in to 06_01 Marking Ranges and see what the situation is. Well, this is a great scene of Joseph and his dad reconnecting. The only challenge is it was recorded on location at the beach, and there's a lot of background sound, such as waves and seagulls and even the crew talking. Take a listen at a couple of sections, and you'll hear for yourself. (Mr. Dalton: So, you got a design for me?) Well, as you can see, even when the actors are speaking you're fighting the wind, and you could spend a lot of time trying to repair that using filters and equalizers but the easiest solution is simply to remove the sound that was recorded live and replace it with audio where the actors where in a studio and recorded it cleanly. And that's exactly what we're going to do. As a matter of fact, we have clean audio from both Joseph and Mr. Dalton, and I've marked these already with the best takes, and even…
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