Building a Sound Track


So far, you have been working with music clips and video-only clips where the audio was never recorded or has been stripped away. However, when you shoot DV or HDV video, you usually record both audio and video together. When you capture this material, the audio and video are linked together as one clip. Any edit point you create on the video also applies to the audio and vice versa.

You will be marking and editing sound bites in this sequence to create a sound track. A sound bite is the portion of a clip where someone states something on camera. It's generally a complete thought or sentence. In this exercise, a young surfer named Jimbo is interviewed. You will cut together some of his sound bites on surfing. Together these sound bites will form a sound track you will use in the next exercise.

1.

In the Surfing Clips bin, click the disclosure triangle to display the contents of the Jimbo Interview bin.

2.

Open the name clip into the Viewer, and mark the beginning and end of his sound bite.

Note

There may be some "off-camera" sound from a director, but it is clear where the subject (Jimbo) starts and stops talking.

3.

In the Timeline, make sure the v1, a1, and a2 source controls are patched to the V1, A1, and A2 destination tracks.

4.

Place the playhead at the head of the sequence, and edit the clip as an Overwrite edit.

In the Timeline, the clip appears on the V1, A1, and A2 tracks. There are two audio tracks because this footage was shot with a DV camera that records stereo audio.

5.

Click the V1 portion of the clip in the Timeline once.

All three tracks of this clip become selected because the audio and video are linked together.

6.

Deselect the clip. Click in either one of the audio tracks and notice that, again, all tracks become selected.

7.

Open the carry head clip. Mark the sound bite and place it in the Timeline at the end of the first clip.

Note

You will be editing seven clips in the Timeline end to end just to create the sound track. You can drag them to the Timeline, use the F10 key, or use the Canvas Edit Overlay.

8.

Open the following clips and mark the sound bites tight to Jimbo's comments. Place each clip in the Timeline one at a time as Overwrite edits in the following order:

  • wax every time

  • catch a wave

  • nose ride

  • leash

  • surfing feels good

Note

In preparation for another exercise, make sure the wax every time clip's duration is no longer than 5:11.

Tip

Subjects often need to repeat or rephrase what they are saying on camera, so as you are marking, be prepared to update your In point.

9.

Press Cmd-S to save the project and play the sequence.

Three-Point Editing

In this lesson, you just edited clips using In and Out points marked in the Viewer and a location determined by the playhead position in the Timeline. In other words, you used three edit points to make your edit. Professionals call this three-point editing. Three-point editing refers to any combination of three edit points to determine duration, location, and content of a clip. The following exercises continue to explore three-point editing.




Apple Pro Training Series Final Cut Express HD
Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express HD
ISBN: 0321335333
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 174
Authors: Diana Weynand

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