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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

Sound effects, part 2 — animating with keyframes


Now that we've learned how to add sound effects to our projects and pan them to different speakers, let's take a look at how we can animate our audio with keyframes. The term animating sound might seem a bit odd at first, but it actually fits perfectly. Animation involves movement and we are going to make our sound effect move from one channel to another.

Getting ready

It's a good idea to have completed the prior recipe before jumping onto this one. For our next examples, we're going to pick up from right where we left off in the last recipe. To make sure you're caught up, double-check that the sound effect is highlighted in the timeline, the Inspector window is open, and the Pan Mode option has been set to Stereo Left/Right.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Zoom in on your timeline (Command + =) until the sound effect takes up most of the width of your screen. This will allow us to be very accurate with placing our keyframes.

  2. 2. Place your playhead right at...

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