Final Cut Pro X Ripple 4 SOUND

Question 1

Usually the first step in sound editing is to go through your project or scene to determine areas that can be tightened up. In editing circles, this is s referred to as ______.

Answer 1

pacing

Question 2

After listening to the dialogue, we now have a good sense of how the dialogue flows, but there are obvious areas of __________ we need to cut out.

Answer 2

redundancy

Question 3

Let’s remove the man’s redundant line where he asks the woman “do I get a shark cage..?” Play over the edit and pause after he delivers the line. With the playhead parked on the frame we want to cut on, press ______-_________. This command trims the head or tail of a clip to the Playhead - whichever one (head or tail) is closer.

Answer 3

Option-Backslash ()

Question 4

To Review the edit press _____-________ ____.

Answer 4

Shift-Question Mark

Question 5

The edit sounds pretty good, but we could tighten it up a bit more. From the View menu enable Loop Playback. The shortcut for that is _______ _.

Answer 5

COMMAND L

Question 6

In the Timeline, select the INCOMING edit point (between two clips) by pressing the _____-_______ key, then press Shift-Question-Mark to begin looping over the edit point.

Answer 6

RIGHT-BRACKET

Question 7

To remove a frame from the incoming clip, press the ______ key. To add a frame, press the _____ key.

Answer 7

period, comma (period is to the right of the comma on the keyboard)

Question 8

Final Cut continues to loop over the edit point as you make one _____ trims.

Answer 8

frame

Question 9

Final Cut continues to loop over the edit point as you make one frame trims. I call this trimming on the fly because you are making your trim adjustments in the context of ________ - which is helpful in determining if your edit is working. Press the spacebar to pause playback when you’re happy with the edit.

Answer 9

playback

Question 10

Press the _______ to pause playback when you’re happy with the edit.

Answer 10

spacebar

Question 11

If you need to adjust the pre and post ____ durations of your looped playback, press Command-Comma to call up preferences, then in the playback pane, enter your new durations. For dialogue editing I’ve found that 2 seconds works well.

Answer 11

roll

Question 12

Press the ____ _____ key to move the playhead to the next edit point, then press Shift-question mark to loop over the edit, then pause playback.

Answer 12

down arrow

Question 13

Let’s remove the part where he says “wait…” You can clearly see this word by this peak in the waveform.
Now select the outgoing edit point by pressing the ____ _______ key.

Answer 13

Left Bracket

Question 14

Press and hold the Shift key while tapping the comma key to perform a __ _____ trim.

Answer 14

10 frame

Question 15

Most of his word has been removed, but as you can see in the waveform, there’s still a bit of it remaining. Tap the comma key a few more times to remove it completely.
Press _____ _______ ____ to playback and adjust the edit point as needed.

Answer 15

Shift Question Mark

Question 16

After pressing Shift Question Mark, and during the looping playback, press ________ to stop playback and return to the edit point between the two clips.

Answer 16

SPACEBAR

Question 17

If trimming DURING playback is not as critical to your storytelling, a method I call _______ ________ cannot be matched in terms of speed.

Answer 17

Skimmer Trimming

Question 18

With Skimmer Trims, you simply skim to the frame you want to cut on, then press and hold the ______ key while tapping either the left or right bracket keys.

Answer 18

Option

Question 19

Because we want to remove frames from the start of the clip (to the left of the skimmer), press ______ ____ _______. The clip is trimmed to the skimmer position.

Answer 19

Option-Left-Bracket

Question 20

By the way, all these trim commands can be found in the ____ ____, but as you’ve just experienced, using the keyboard is much faster.

Answer 20

Trim Menu

Question 21

Often you’ll want to improve the edit ______ by separating the video and audio. To expand a clip, simply double-click the waveform. Double click to collapse it.

Answer 21

pacing

Question 22

You can also expand multiple clips. Drag a selection around the Nicole Man Eater and Billy MCU clips, then double-click the waveform to expand them. You can also use the keyboard shortcut _______ _.

Answer 22

Control-S

Question 23

Once a clip or clips is expanded, Final Cut assumes you want ___________ trimming control of the picture and sound.

Answer 23

independent

Question 24

The main reason to expand the audio is to perform _____ _____

Answer 24

split edits

Question 25

Split edits are used to offset the edit point of the picture or sound to give the dialogue a more ______________ flow. In real life we often hear a person speaking before we turn to look at them. In visual storytelling, leading with a character’s voice before we see them helps to hide the cut and make the scene less choppy.

Answer 25

conversational

Question 26

We want to use a split edit to have his chuckle begin when we’re still looking at her.
—CREATING SPLIT EDITS TO PLAYHEAD—
FIRST, make sure you’ve EXPANDED (not detached) audio from video. Then, using the waveform as your guide, move your playhead between the second and third chuckle (in the clip), then select the video __ _____ of the clip you’re in. Press Option-Backslash to trim the video edit point to the playhead. The magnetic Timeline automatically moves his audio below the shot of the woman while maintaining sync. Press Shift-Question-Mark to play the edit.

Answer 26

IN point

Question 27

The edit now feels more natural, but during playback I noticed a misplaced giggle toward the beginning of his delivery. Because the clips are expanded and we have independent control of the picture and sound, it’s simply a matter of selecting the edit point of the man’s audio and ________ to remove it.

Answer 27

dragging

Question 28

Before you edit something, always check to make sure it is or is not a….

Answer 28

SPLIT EDIT

To do this…go to VIEW, then EXPAND AUDIO/VIDEO CLIPS, then FOR SPLITS

Question 29

Let’s try another split edit, this time on the woman answering her phone. Editing is often about COMPRESSING time and many actions that you assume need to be shown, actually don’t. Playback her clip and pause after she says “hello…” Select the video IN POINT of her clip then press ______ _________ to trim the video to the ________.

Answer 29

in point, Option Backslash, playhead

Question 30

The magnetic Timeline moves her audio (her clip is on the right) _____ the shot of the man. Now press Shift Question Mark to loop playback. Then using your comma or period keys, dynamically trim the edit point until the timing feels just right. Before we move to the next lesson, choose > Collapse All Clips from the View menu.

Answer 30

below