Subtitles of the Movie

Now in this module let's go ahead and add an audio clip to our sequence here and there's lots of purposes for this, obviously you can add music to a sequence to create like a score or just some musical undertones or you can add narration or you can add just the audio information from of your clips, maybe you have a clip that you don't want to use the picture but you do want to use the sound. You can do that, you can add just the voice or the line of dialogue or the ambient sound to your clip without using the picture as well and it depends on what you're selections are down here. We'll hint at that here, we'll go into it in more detail later on. So to pull up an audio clip just a dedicated audio clip, I've got a bin here called audio and I can preview this in the viewer by dragging and dropping or double clicking and now I get a viewer that looks like this, it has an audio clip there's obviously no picture to look at. So instead of the picture we look at the wave form representation of the music as you can see here. Now I have all the abilities that I do with any other picture clip or any regular clip that I work with in Final Cut, in other words I can play it with pressing play and you notice down here that the audio levels indicate that this might be a little hot, it might be something that overpowers or gets a little distorted during play back because these levels are getting up into the red. Our general goal when we add audio clips is going to be around negative 12 decibels so we can set that just by punching it in, we can select navigate 1-2, enter and now we lower the levels, we can also use this slider, we can also use these little pink bars and when we start to move these around notice that we get a little pop up and so I can set it to negative 12 DB and now I'm ready to go. Can I set in and out points? Absolutely you can, so there's an I and I can scrub, I can play if I want to and I can move that in point as one I did here or I can select a place in the timeline and set an out point by pressing O on the keyboard. So now I've got something that is ready to be added, how do I add it? Well notice that I can't drag and drop this if I click with the mouse pointer and try to put it onto the canvas, nothing will happen, instead I'll have to expand my viewer window, you shouldn't have to do this by the way, because your resolution is probably going to be recommended, mine's not at 800 by 600. But you should see this little icon right here, this hand next to the speaker and that lets me perform edits with dragging and dropping and I can either drag it into the canvas or into the timeline and you have a couple of advantages of each, maybe this is little bit quicker if I've already got my in point set but this dragging into the timeline might give me a little bit more control. Also what's very important is this the source and destination of your tracks, these can be moved around if you want to, so right now I'm making a essentially, I'm making a music video, if I set my in point in a timeline, I'll just set my in point by doing function left arrow to go to the very beginning of the sequence. Now if I drag and drop this into the canvas for example my source and destination tells me that this music is going to go on track audio one and audio two. So let's try this out an overwrite edit on the canvas and indeed that's exactly what has happened. If I go back now to the beginning of the sequence and then start to play, I don't have any audio except the music that I've just added. I can of course do that if I want to, I can do an insert edit which would essentially do the same thing here or I can change my destination audio one and audio two, the source audio tracks are going to go down to audio three and audio four tracks if I do that same drag and drop operation. Now I don't interrupt the audio that already exists, sometimes you will want to do that, sometimes you won't. It will just depend of course on what you're overall objective is for creating your sound space for the sequence, The other option you have of course is to drag and drop the entire audio track itself. And now I don't have to really pay as close attention to what my source and destination toggles are set here because notice that it will just depend on where I let go of the mouse where this audio is going to go. It'll either go on those two tracks as an insert edit or an override edit or down here on tracks three and four as an insert or an overwrite and of course if you have an empty track there it's not really going to make much difference. So if you want to bring this music in to introduce this next cut here which again is a very commonly used technique or there's some beat of the music that you want and you want to be very precise then of course you have the freedom to release that mouse, exactly where you want that music to go and now the sequence will play through, I'll set my play head right there, so we'll have some ambient audio, now the music comes in. So that's how you get started with audio edits and in these first three chapters you've seen here in this tutorial we've kind of set the basic language for Final Cut Pro, you also have the tools at your disposal now to create a very simple type of a sequence, something you might use, if you just shoot some video and you want to quickly create a product for a blog or something like that, you really now have the tools at hand to do that, to really create a sequence, a finished product, almost as quickly as you can import it into Final Cut Pro. So we'll build on these techniques through out the rest of the tutorial so that you can start to make short movies and even features but again using kind of the same basic building blocks that you've already seen.