The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 5: For New Users and Professionals
Paring down the software to its essentials, this concise, full-color book covers only the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 5: For New Users and Professionals
Audio
The application grows as you grow
ABBA SHAPIRO
WASHINGTON DC FINAL CUT PRO USER GROUP
It's been said before that audiences will more readily accept bad images when watching a film than they will accept bad audio. Out of focus, jerky, misframed shots, in limited doses, will not cause a viewer to switch off. Bad sound, on the other hand, will turn the film experience into a torturous ordeal. If the audience can't hear what is going on, or if the content simply hurts their ears, then it is very difficult to maintain their attention.
The only way to get good sound is to record it properly in the first place. Basic rules to achieve this include: using good microphones; getting the microphone as close to the subject's mouth as possible; listening to the sound through headphones as it is recorded and setting the audio levels correctly. The likelihood is, if it sounds good at the time of recording then it will sound good in the edit suite.
Setting Correct Audio Levels
Audio levels are crucial to get right. If you set the level too high you will blow it, literally. When digital audio peaks too loud the sound will distort, break up and be unlistenable. Often called pumping this will sound far worse in a digital environment than it would have in the analog world.
The basic rule with recording sound is don't let the audio meters push into the red. This applies for recording audio on location and...
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