Final Cut Pro X Ripple Lesson - Adding Foley Effects - SOUND

Question 1

Adding Foley Effects
At the start of our sequence we have a lock being twisted, then unlocked a couple of shots later. Let’s add a sound effect for both of these shots. Select the Music and Effects Browser, then make sure Final Cut Pro Sound Effects is selected. Use the search field at the bottom of the browser to search for the appropriate sound. Type out “lock”, then ______ _____ each sound to audition it.

Answer 1

double click

Question 2

Adding Foley Effects
Drag Lock 3 into the Timeline, beneath the first clip. Let’s take a listen…While watching the video in the viewer, use the left and right arrows to step through the clip until you see the lock lever begin to move then drag the start of the clip to line up with the playhead.
Make sure snapping is enabled. If it isn’t, press _ on your keyboard. The clip’s start point should snap to the playhead.

Answer 2

N

Question 3

Adding Foley Effects
Drag Lock 3 into the Timeline, beneath the first clip. Let’s take a listen…While watching the video in the viewer, use the left and right arrows to step through the clip until you see the lock lever begin to move then drag the start of the clip to line up with the playhead.
Make sure snapping is enabled. If it isn’t, press N on your keyboard. The clip’s start point should snap to the playhead. To keep the suspense going, add a couple of keyframes by ______ ________ the volume bar, then drag the level down to -4 to keep the sounds from overpowering the scene. We’ll be adding music to all of this a little later.

Answer 3

option clicking

Question 4

Adding Foley Effects
Drag Lock 3 into the Timeline, beneath the first clip. Let’s take a listen…While watching the video in the viewer, use the left and right arrows to step through the clip until you see the lock lever begin to move then drag the start of the clip to line up with the playhead.
Make sure snapping is enabled. If it isn’t, press N on your keyboard. The clip’s start point should snap to the playhead. To keep the suspense going, add a couple of keyframes by Option-clicking the volume bar, then drag the level down to -4 to keep the sounds from overpowering the scene. We’ll be adding music to all of this a little later.
Trim the last lock sound off the end then add a slight ____ to make sure the sound exits cleanly.

Answer 4

fade

Question 5

Adding Foley Effects
Now it’s time to add the sound of the final unlock by dragging Lock 1 into the Timeline, below the Deadbolt clip.
You can already see the peak from the original audio, showing where the lock clicks. Move the playhead to the start of that peak, then drag the central peak of the Lock 1 effect so that it lines up.
Listening back, the lock sounds believable, but not all that dramatic. As you can see from the girl’s reaction, this is the height of tension in the scene, and modern audience expect pyrotechnics at such moments, not realism.
Let’s click the __________ triangle next to Final Cut Pro Sounds Effects to list the individual categories. Select Impacts and Crashes. To resume browsing, you’ll want to remember to clear the search field.

Answer 5

disclosure

Question 6

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
Now we could search the entire listing here, but actually the Arrow Body Impact right up the top will work just fine. Drag it into the Timeline, and line up its highest peak with the unlock moment, then trim the start of the clip to the start of lock 1, and adjust the fade handle to ease the sound in. Let’s take a listen…
Now we could be done here, but then we’d be cheating all those Viewers with large sub-woofers in their living rooms. Click in the search field and type LFE to jump to the LFE impact effects. LFE stands for ___ _________ _______.

Answer 6

LOW FREQUENCY EFFECTS

Question 7

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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I’ll locate LFE Hit Impact 05 and drag it to the Timeline, then line it up with the impact point. This’ll add a nice low frequency rumble to the climactic moment. To clean up a little, I’ll drag down the volume of the Lock and Arrow effects so that they don’t ____ the meters.

Answer 7

clip

Question 8

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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We now have a nice dramatic sound effect, but in the true Hollywood style of go big or go home, let’s add some reverb to the entire sound. We could add reverb to each individual clip, but there’s an easier way: Final Cut Pro’s ________ _____.

Answer 8

Compound Clips

Question 9

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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We now have a nice dramatic sound effect, but in the true Hollywood style of go big or go home, let’s add some reverb to the entire sound. We could add reverb to each individual clip, but there’s an easier way: Final Cut Pro’s Compound Clips. Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply _______ to all audio clips at once.

Answer 9

effects

Question 10

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply effects to all audio clips at once.
This also helps with a specific issue related to delay and reverb effects which is the lack of sustained tails. In Final Cut Pro, when a clip ends in the Timeline, so do any effects connected to it. Any echo or reverb tail will instantly be cut to silence when the clip ends. We want a nice reverb tail to continue after our sound has finished, so we’ll artificially lengthen the clip to accommodate.
Select the __________ browser and drag a custom solid into the Timeline, below the Lock and Arrow sound clips. Now extend it to leave room for a nice tail after those two sound effects end. We won’t include the LFE effect in our compound clips, since adding reverb to the low frequency sounds will most likely muddy up our mix.

Answer 10

GENERATORS

Question 11

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply effects to all audio clips at once.
This also helps with a specific issue related to delay and reverb effects which is the lack of sustained tails. In Final Cut Pro, when a clip ends in the Timeline, so do any effects connected to it. Any echo or reverb tail will instantly be cut to silence when the clip ends. We want a nice reverb tail to continue after our sound has finished, so we’ll artificially lengthen the clip to accommodate.
Select the Generators browser and drag a ______ _____ into the Timeline, below the Lock and Arrow sound clips. Now extend it to leave room for a nice tail after those two sound effects end. We won’t include the LFE effect in our compound clips, since adding reverb to the low frequency sounds will most likely muddy up our mix.

Answer 11

CUSTOM SOLID

Question 12

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply effects to all audio clips at once.
This also helps with a specific issue related to delay and reverb effects which is the lack of sustained tails. In Final Cut Pro, when a clip ends in the Timeline, so do any effects connected to it. Any echo or reverb tail will instantly be cut to silence when the clip ends. We want a nice reverb tail to continue after our sound has finished, so we’ll artificially lengthen the clip to accommodate.
Select the Generators browser and drag a custom solid into the Timeline, below the Lock and Arrow sound clips. Now ______ it to leave room for a nice tail after those two sound effects end. We won’t include the LFE effect in our compound clips, since adding reverb to the low frequency sounds will most likely muddy up our mix.

Answer 12

extend

Question 13

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply effects to all audio clips at once.
This also helps with a specific issue related to delay and reverb effects which is the lack of sustained tails. In Final Cut Pro, when a clip ends in the Timeline, so do any effects connected to it. Any echo or reverb tail will instantly be cut to silence when the clip ends. We want a nice reverb tail to continue after our sound has finished, so we’ll artificially lengthen the clip to accommodate.
Select the Generators browser and drag a custom solid into the Timeline, below the Lock and Arrow sound clips. Now extend it to leave room for a nice tail after those two sound effects ___. We won’t include the LFE effect in our compound clips, since adding reverb to the low frequency sounds will most likely muddy up our mix.

Answer 13

end

Question 14

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Compound clips allow you to convert two or more clips into a single clip, then apply effects to all audio clips at once.
This also helps with a specific issue related to delay and reverb effects which is the lack of sustained tails. In Final Cut Pro, when a clip ends in the Timeline, so do any effects connected to it. Any echo or reverb tail will instantly be cut to silence when the clip ends. We want a nice reverb tail to continue after our sound has finished, so we’ll artificially lengthen the clip to accommodate.
Select the Generators browser and drag a custom solid into the Timeline, below the Lock and Arrow sound clips. Now extend it to leave room for a nice tail after those two sound effects end. We won’t include the LFE ______ in our compound clips, since adding reverb to the low frequency sounds will most likely muddy up our mix.

Answer 14

effect

Question 15

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut ______ _.

Answer 15

OPTION G

Question 16

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut Option G. In the window that appears, name the Compound Clip “Lock FX” and press Return.

Answer 16

got it?

Question 17

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut Option G. In the window that appears, name the Compound Clip, Lock FX and press Return.
That’s it. There is now a single clip representing the three original sound effects clips in the timeline. From the ______ _______, select Spaces and then double-click the Modest Cathedral preset. A nice spacious reverb is added to the compound clip. And thanks to the solid we added, the reverb can continue long after the Lock and Arrow Body Impact clips are done.

Answer 17

EFFECTS BROWSER

Question 18

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut Option G. In the window that appears, name the Compound Clip, Lock FX and press Return.
That’s it. There is now a single clip representing the three original sound effects clips in the timeline. From the Effects Browser, select ______ and then double-click the Modest Cathedral preset. A nice spacious reverb is added to the compound clip. And thanks to the solid we added, the reverb can continue long after the Lock and Arrow Body Impact clips are done.

Answer 18

Spaces

Question 19

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut Option G. In the window that appears, name the Compound Clip, Lock FX and press Return.
That’s it. There is now a single clip representing the three original sound effects clips in the timeline. From the Effects Browser, select Spaces and then double-click the _______ ________ preset. A nice spacious reverb is added to the compound clip. And thanks to the solid we added, the reverb can continue long after the Lock and Arrow Body Impact clips are done.

Answer 19

Modest Cathedral

Question 20

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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Now select (by dragging over with arrow) Lock 1, Arrow Body Impact and the Custom Solid. Choose New Compound Clip with the shortcut Option G. In the window that appears, name the Compound Clip, Lock FX and press Return.
That’s it. There is now a single clip representing the three original sound effects clips in the timeline. From the Effects Browser, select Spaces and then double-click the Modest Cathedral preset. A nice spacious reverb is added to the compound clip. And thanks to the _____ we added, the reverb can continue long after the Lock and Arrow Body Impact clips are done. Let’s add a fade to tidy up the ending.

Answer 20

solid

Question 21

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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You may be wondering how you can make adjustments to the individual clips now that you’ve created a Compound Clip. That’s actually very simple: just ______ _____ the compound clip to open it. A separate Timeline opens to reveal the clips inside the compound clip.

Answer 21

double click

Question 22

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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You may be wondering how you can make adjustments to the individual clips now that you’ve created a Compound Clip. That’s actually very simple: just double-click the compound clip to open it. A separate Timeline opens to reveal the clips inside the compound clip.
You can make any adjustments you need to make here, and then click the ____ _____ to return to the main Timeline.

Answer 22

back arrow

Question 23

Adding Effects to a Compound Clip
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You may be wondering how you can make adjustments to the individual clips now that you’ve created a Compound Clip. That’s actually very simple: just double-click the compound clip to open it. A separate Timeline opens to reveal the clips inside the compound clip.
You can make any adjustments you need to make here, and then click the back arrow to return to the main Timeline. Finally, let’s add a music bed to add suspense to the opening of the scene. Final Cut Pro X offers easy access to the music in your iTunes library for just such purposes.
Select the Music and Sound Browser, then the iLife Sound Effects section. In the search field, I’ll type out suspense. Drag out any of the suspense accents into the Timeline. I’m kinda partial to cut 7. Now we’ll simply trim the music appropriately. Adjust the ______, and we now have a nice source of suspense for the scene intro.

Answer 23

levels

Question 24

Difference between Delay and Echo

Answer 24

There are of course parameters than can be tweaked. I think of echo as having quieter and quieter copies of the original repeating but delay as having the copies as loud or nearly as loud (think The Edge).

Question 25

Difference between Echo and Reverb

Answer 25

• Echo is a single reflection of a sound wave whereas reverberation is the superposition of multiple echoes.
• An echo is easily distinguishable and is almost as same as the original sound. The reverberation is not distinguishable and fades out in an exponential manner.