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Final Cut Pro X 101: Recording a Voice Over + Advanced Key Command Tutorial

2011-06-28
what's going on guys gentleman here with tod going to be doing a series of Final Cut Pro 10 training videos today I'm going to show you guys kind of the 101 the basics of recording and setting up a voiceover so in my timeline have a little sequence of Clips set up in a compound clip this is actually one of the cooler features in Final Cut Pro 10 where you can take a series like I've cuts right here so this is actually five different clips and I have them sandwich together nice and a clean organized clip so what we're going to do is position this right at the beginning of the timeline head up to window on select record audio now is a quick note you guys can see there actually is no key command right here so if you guys are feeling bold towards the end of this video I'll show you how to set one up so you can have a key command for record audio so we're going to select that we're going to be brought into a new window where we can monitor our input this is going to tell us if we're too low or too high we want to kind of be right in the middle make sure we're not either too low so we can't hear ourselves or we're not too high so we're not clipping or distorting next up is the destination right here so you can actually select which event you want to send the audio tube so we're going to leave it as is next up is the input device so you can either choose the built-in microphone on your computer for this instance I'm going to using the Yeti stereo microphone you can choose from mono all the way up to stereo I'll use stereo since this is a stereo microphone we can adjust the game right here and we can also set up to monitor ourselves to hear ourselves recording while recording so I can hear myself right now so I'm not going to set that up we're going to go and hit the record button that's going to play in a timeline and we can go to a correr voiceover so we are doing a voiceover for the ipod shuffle we got some cool flashing effects I have no idea what I'm talking about but this is a demonstration to set up a voiceover showing you guys how to do the same thing so hopefully you guys are learning I got about five more seconds to keep blabbering on and this is the end of the video so we'll go ahead and stop and the recording and you guys will take ain't no let's go to exit out of this right here this will pop up in the event that I selected it too so here's the voice-over 5 will go and play back to make sure all is good voiceover for the ipod shuffle we got some cool flashing effects i have no idea what I'm talking about and we're going to add space bargain to stop so that was it that's how easy it is to set up to record a voiceover if you guys are interested we're gonna do a couple a little more the ance things right now let me show you guys how to set up a key command in case you guys want to learn how to do that let me go to turn skimming off so you guys don't hear my voice skimming right here basically allows me to move the playhead and go through the video this time I'm going to turn it off like i said so we don't hear that i'm gonna head up to Final Cut Pro commands customized and we're going to look for record audio so we'll go and type that in the little search bar right here we found that and if you go through here actually it'll show you everything that is actually designated so what I'm going to do is look for something that's not designated so let's go and do command shift and you guys can see we have a lot open so V is actually open so i'm going to select that since voiceover be kind of pick something that relates to it you can put in your head we just assign a new keyboard shortcut for record audio so it's going to save this and if you notice once we head back to the window now there is a keyboard shortcut for record audio so it's going to be command shift v head down to this without going up to the window we can hit command shift v and now we have the record audio tab so that's just a little quick advanced little tip for you guys and to top this video off let's go ahead and set up some music to throw along with the voice-over all doing that so go ahead over to the little music tab right here we got the jingles section this is in the final cut section we have this arranged by time so since the clip is about 20 seconds long let's go and pick I don't know see cleaning medium I don't even know what that is but we'll go to drag it down chances are it's going to be a little loud so by default let's go and bring it down a few decibels maybe bet 11 sale that sounds so we are doing a voiceover for the ipod shuffle we got some cool flashing effects i have no idea what I'm talking about but this is just a demonstration to set up a voiceover showing you guys how to do the same thing so hopefully you guys are learning I got about five more seconds to keep blabbering on and this is the end of the video and there you guys have it so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you guys want to post some video responses of your creations in Final Cut Pro 10 feel free to do so I would love to check them out as always feel free to subscribe make sure to follow me on twitter check us out on facebook for all the latest updates on the tutorials new videos and I'll see you guys next time
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