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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

You're reading from   Final Cut Pro X Cookbook Edit with style and ease using the latest editing technologies in Final Cut Pro X! with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692960
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Importing Your Media FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Your Workflow 3. Basic Editing Mechanics 4. Enhancing Your Editing 5. Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound 6. Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects 7. Titles, Transitions, and Generators 8. Get Your Movie to Move 9. Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image 10. Getting Your Project Out of FCPX Working with Motion and Compressor

Replacing bad audio with a cleaner recording


As more and more videographers today are experimenting with the quickly advancing world of DSLR video, they quickly learn one ruleā€”the recorded audio on DSLRs sucks! A true professional would almost never use their camera's built-in microphone, but most DSLRs have especially bad audio. While some DSLRs have microphone inputs, they still don't often have the best recording capabilities or feature sets, so many professionals use external audio recorders for their audio needs.

There are many out there, but a couple I highly recommend looking into are the Zoom H1 and H4n models (http://www.zoom.co.jp/?lang=en). They both record pristine audio quality in the WAV and MP3 formats to SD cards that can be imported instantly into FCPX. The H4n model also allows you to plug in XLR microphones directly into it.

So, once you've imported your video with bad audio and your separate high-quality audio file, what do you do? You used to have to spend a ridiculous...

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