Chapter 5. Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Reading and understanding the audio meters

• Lowering your music during speakers

• Lowering a loud, unexpected background sound with manual keyframes

• Replacing bad audio with a cleaner recording

• Sound effects, part 1 — browsing, connecting, and panning

• Sound effects, part 2 — animating with keyframes

• Sound effects, part 3 — working in a surround sound space

• Removing unwanted audio channels

• Unlinking audio from video

• Using FCPX's auto audio enhancements

• Recording a voiceover