Final Cut Pro X Ripple Lesson - Editing Voice Over - SOUND Flashcards
One of the most common video editing tasks is cutting voice-over. In this lesson, you’ll see not only how to edit voice-over faster than real time, but also learn how to use a unique cocktail of audio effects to _____________ eliminate breathy pauses while ______ presence.
automatically, adding
If you’re listening with headphones, you can hear bleed noise typically coming from ceiling fans, air conditioners, computer chassis and hard drives. If you’re only dealing with 30 seconds or so of voice-over, the best solution is probably to edit away unwanted regions of the voice-over using many of the techniques you’ve learned thus far.
If you’re talking about a half hour or more of voice-over, you’re going to be spending a great deal of time cleaning up your audio. But there is a much better way. That was is a _____ ____.
NOISE GATE
Noise Gate
Enter the Noise Gate. The Noise Gate is a magic effect that automatically eliminates sounds _____ a certain level of volume.
below
Noise Gate
Enter the Noise Gate. The Noise Gate is a magic effect that automatically eliminates sounds below a certain level of volume. It’s essentially the reverse of a __________.
COMPRESSOR
Noise Gate
Enter the Noise Gate. The Noise Gate is a magic effect that automatically eliminates sounds below a certain level of volume. It’s essentially the reverse of a Compressor.
Instead of boosting quiet sounds, it actually cuts the quiet sounds entirely allowing loud sounds through. It’s called a gate for a reason; when your audio is quiet the gate is closed, meaning that absolutely no sounds pass through. When the audio is loud the gate opens allowing sound through at it’s _______ volume.
regular
Noise Gate
Select the voiceover clip in the timeline, open the effects browser and select the levels category. Double click a noise gate to add it to the voiceover. The ________ immediately reacts to the change and we can identify where the gate is closed and where it’s open.
waveform
Noise Gate
In the audio inspector, click to open the noise gate’s HUD. The most important control is the threshold. The threshold determines how ____ a noise needs to be to trigger the noise gate. Until a sound triggers the gate, the output will be completely silent.
loud
Noise Gate
Drag the threshold up and down and watch the waveform. At higher thresholds ____ of the wanted sound passes through, and at lower thresholds ____ of the noise passes through.
less, more
Noise Gate
With the clip selected we’ll use forward slash to play through the clip and adjust the threshold so that it directly triggers at the _____ of any voice-over phrase. A threshold value of -30 dB seems to work well.
start
Noise Gate
Next we need to adjust the release. The release determines how long it takes to _____ the gate once the sound has dropped _____ the threshold.
close, below
Noise Gate
Think of the release like an audio fade out. Set the release time too short and you’ll end up clipping the tail end of certain syllables like “S”s. Set it too long and you’ll end up including some of the background noise you’re trying to remove. So adjust until you get a nice balance between hearing the tails of your _____ without picking up unwanted ______.
words, sound
Noise Gate
You want attack set as _____ as possible so to avoid missing out on the very first part of a new vocal phrase.
short
Noise Gate
You want attack set as short as possible so to avoid missing out on the very first part of a new vocal phrase. In fact, Final Cut Pro’s noise gate includes a ____ _____ function.
look ahead
Noise Gate
Look ahead will add a slight delay (aka a time delay or a constant preview) to the signal to allow it to trigger the gate before the loud sound actually arrives. Use this slider to guarantee you don’t lose any quiet proceeding sounds in the vocal phrasing. The ____ look ahead of 20 milliseconds will often produce good results.
full
Noise Gate
There are a couple of other controls here worth mentioning. The hold control allows you to set a delay which keeps the gate open after the audio has fallen below the threshold again. This can sometimes be useful if you hear awkward silences between drawn out phrases in the voice-over, but often a generous _______ will take care of this.
release