From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Recording a narration track to explore script ideas

Recording a narration track to explore script ideas - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Recording a narration track to explore script ideas

So you've got a visual storyboard and even a few text lines attached to each character or clip in your placeholder. Maybe you wrote the text for the narrator to record, and now you want to kick back and hear a rough version before entering the recording session. That's going to be a little hard to do when no one's talking right? But you can record a rough narration track or even script lines using the Record Audio tool in Final Cut Pro. It's a perfect way to bridge the gap from thinking through a story scene or segment, to actually listening to it. Let's start in the Project Library and open the Record Audio project. In this project, you see the four clips that were edited in the previous movie. Now the job here is to record the audio, but when there's so much space between each line, and the lines are fairly short, you might want to take an extra moment to simply trim each clip to be more the length of the actual text itself. Now what we want to do is select the clip, move the…

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