Hey Friends! I hope you found that useful? If you have a different way of doing this that you think is better then let me know with a comment, also are there other tutorials you would like me to do? drop me a comment and tell me! 👍🙏😎
This was very helpful, thank you for sharing! I have always done it the first way you showed, cutting, fading, etc. This method you demonstrated is much smoother, thank you!
Better way is to export to logic and use side chain to frequencies, so there is music left on a frequencies where voice is absent, maintaining the volume. I thought you’re going to tell how to use that in FCPX, honestly. It’s pain in the ass to manually decrease music volume for long videos, films, etc.
For the first method - if you do the cuts, you can simply put a crossfade transition on the audio and it will be very smooth. Probably the quickest way to duck in FCP, actually. I used to use the range selector but it honestly takes longer and half the time, especially if you're zoomed out, you end up taking way too much time just trying to click the key point. With a crossfade on the audio slice you can easily drag the length of the transition to decide how smooth you want it to be. Happy editing, friends. :)
BRAVO!!!! I have been pulling my hair out trying figure out why Apple has this volume attenuating feature in their free iMovie but it wasn't in Final Cut Pro. I like this feature better in FCP. Thank you so much my brother!!!
sub'd based on the intro quality/production/visuals. Very Awesome and quite promising of what I can expect from the channel in general. (and i need to know how to do this ducking too).
Hey Will, from the debt of my heart, I thank and appreciate you and your intelligence. With this short and concise lesson, I was able to surprise my boss at work. Take it, you are a genius! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This was SO helpful - thank you!! I've been doing the first technique and I knew there had to be a better way 🙈 This is one thing that makes me miss iMovie because this was automatically done for voice overs
Oh this was perfect! Thank you. Came across you as was looking for how to adjusrment layer - so just watched that vid and downloaded it - thanks for the free download. And am now bingeing on all your other videos. This use of the range tool just makes it so much quicker sorting out sound - so a great little tip. Right....off to watch more haha. Cheers 👍🏼👍🏼 Stuart
Adding captions/subtitles is really easy in FCPX. Edit > Captions > Add caption. Just make sure you define the type of caption you want to use before you add them all (Modify > Assign caption roles > edit roles) I generally use SRT as they play well for most platforms. Adding and editing captions is much like adding titles once you get the hang of it. Hope that helps, thanks for watching
@@WillChidlow I figured out the captioning and typing it myself, works a great! Appreciate your “like” and the reply as well. Great to know you’re active on here.
Will, since FCP X was introduced I always wondered why it doesn't have audio mixer like FCP Studio 7 had, where you used sliders for individual tracks and could edit levels on the fly. Audio ducking was so easy.
Thank you for this video! Going to put this in my saved folders and sub to this channel. I'm learning FCP. Do you record your screen when you are doing tutorials?
Hey Phillip, thanks for watching, glad you found it helpful. Yeah I record my screen for tutorials using QuickTime. Here’s a whole video of how I make my tutorials: ruclips.net/video/Crs6gcJp_Lc/видео.html
Thanks a lot Will. Very helpful. I'm new to FCPX so would you mind telling me how did you get the volume display to show in the bottom right side of the screen (seen from 1:09)? I've tried clicking on everything and I can't get it to show on mine. Also, what do the two little green channels under 'audio configuration' on the far right correspond with? Which is the active one?
Glad to help! Audio meters are turned on using the drop down menus at the top of the screen, I can’t remember exactly but I think it’s in window or workspace and you are looking for audio meters. The green tracks are the stereo audio tracks you should be able to expand them and there is a tick box to turn them on/off. I normally record external audio and sync in post so I would have 2, 1 original timeline audio (disabled) and then connected audio enabled. Hope that helps, sorry if my explanations are slightly vague I’m not in front of my Mac right now. Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
Hi Will, I'm a little late to the party on this one(!), but great tutorial. I'm trying to do this over a number of clips but it doesn't seem to be working for me beyond the clip I start with - am I missing something? Cheers, Martin
It'd be great if FCPX supported actual "auto ducking" meaning that you can use the chat channel and the volume of the music adapts to when you are taking, sort of like a compressor would do. Filmora has this feature, although I really hate Filmora now, but was hopping FCPX would have offered the same pro feature, but it doesn't. Using keyframes is definitely not auto ducking, but I guess is a compromise. Filmora is damn slow on my Mac m1, on my iMac i7 and on my windows using a gaming card 1080TI, tons of ram, fast drive, etc.
yeah I really wish FCPX had this feature too, I believe there are a few plugins which offer this via side chaining but on looking last they all seemed a bit clunky to me. fingers crossed Apple add this in a future update 🙏👍😎
Too bad I didn't come across this video before I uploaded my latest video!! smh, I needed some music in it but didn't know how to do this, but I know, THANK YOU SO MUCH for this helpful video!
Bravo!! thank you soo much for this ,really helps! Got a completely out of topic question, i see your studio set up,and i'm wondering is that big screen as a secondary monitor to yer laptop? im asking cause i would like to get a second monitor, for my MackBook and not sure if is worthy it and if laptop would manage . I'm working with a MacBook Pro AMD Radeon 2GB Graphic cards.Any Help? Thank you, keep up the tutorials im loving it!
Hey! Yep it’s a second screen running from my laptop, it is definitely a life saver to have more screen to work with and way better for my neck! Just be careful when choosing a screen, mine is 2560x1440 and works fine but I have heard people finding there laptops struggling to run full 4K monitors due to the extra strain on the graphics card 👍🙏😎
Hey Friends! I hope you found that useful? If you have a different way of doing this that you think is better then let me know with a comment, also are there other tutorials you would like me to do? drop me a comment and tell me! 👍🙏😎
This was very helpful, thank you for sharing! I have always done it the first way you showed, cutting, fading, etc. This method you demonstrated is much smoother, thank you!
Better way is to export to logic and use side chain to frequencies, so there is music left on a frequencies where voice is absent, maintaining the volume.
I thought you’re going to tell how to use that in FCPX, honestly.
It’s pain in the ass to manually decrease music volume for long videos, films, etc.
new to your channel but it really is a bomb man, keep it up
Where there's a Will there's a way :). Thank you! That's been very helpful!
😂😉👍🙏
For the first method - if you do the cuts, you can simply put a crossfade transition on the audio and it will be very smooth. Probably the quickest way to duck in FCP, actually. I used to use the range selector but it honestly takes longer and half the time, especially if you're zoomed out, you end up taking way too much time just trying to click the key point. With a crossfade on the audio slice you can easily drag the length of the transition to decide how smooth you want it to be. Happy editing, friends. :)
Thats a good shout too, thanks for sharing 🙏👍😎
i have been trying to figure out how to do this for YEARS. appreciate this video.
🙌🏾 so many of us “tubers” will benefit from this video.
Hi, thanks for watching! I aim to please!
BRAVO!!!! I have been pulling my hair out trying figure out why Apple has this volume attenuating feature in their free iMovie but it wasn't in Final Cut Pro. I like this feature better in FCP. Thank you so much my brother!!!
Cheers for teaching me how to do that! Simple and to the point. Love your green background accent lighting too, btw!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ahhh finally haha! I knew this sort of thing had to be A Thing that I could do, but I couldn't figure it out myself. Thanks for the video!!
Glad I could help! 🙏👍😎
You're the first to show this to me....Thanks.....I needed this...
Glad i could help! 😄
sub'd based on the intro quality/production/visuals. Very Awesome and quite promising of what I can expect from the channel in general. (and i need to know how to do this ducking too).
Thanks Gerald! Welcome to the channel! 👍🙏😎
Best and easiest video on this I could find. Super simple
Fab! thank you
You shot the duck bro and won a prize with this vid. Thanks man!
😂👍
Awesome video! You made it so easy to understand and follow along. Thank you so much.
Thank you brother 🙌🏼
Thanks for watching 👍🙏
Thanks! So much better than the other way and I finally know what the range tool does. ✨
Glad it helped!
Thank you, Will. This video helped me a lot. Have a good day.
Brilliant exactly what I was looking for and explained very well, you've earned my subscription
Thank Ian and welcome! 👍🙏😎
2021 and this video is still GOLD!!Thank You
Awesome to hear, thanks for watching
just upgraded from imovie to final cut, this is so helpful!! thank you
Great! Enjoy the upgrade, you’ll love it! Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
Hey Will, from the debt of my heart, I thank and appreciate you and your intelligence. With this short and concise lesson, I was able to surprise my boss at work. Take it, you are a genius! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching
@@WillChidlow may I have your email address please?
Dude, I hit like before you even started explaining. That intro was 👌
Ah thanks! 👍🙏😎
Oh my gosh I've been making my life so much harder doing the blade technique and fading in and out the music. THANK YOU! I subbed :D
Awesome! Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
omggg thank you so much for this quick and straight-to-the-point video! i've been looking for a short tutorial for this~
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video, straight to the point.
Glad you found it useful! 👍🙏😎
Thanks for the video. Exactly what I needed!
thanks a lot man , exactly the video title i was searching for
Glad it helps! thanks
And once again Will saves the day! Thanks for the amazing tutorial and keep up the great work! Love from Miami
Thanks Gustavo! Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
This is exactly what I was trying to figure out, thanks!
Awesome to hear, thanks Tom! 👍🙏😎
This was SO helpful - thank you!! I've been doing the first technique and I knew there had to be a better way 🙈 This is one thing that makes me miss iMovie because this was automatically done for voice overs
Glad to help Veronica! Yeah iMovie does make this easy but it’s also a little unpredictable at times 👍🙏😎
New subscriber!
I love your energy, way of explaining, editing and how amazing your videos are.
Thanks so much for being you and your epic creations.
ah thank you, thats made my day!
Wish I'd known this at the start of the last project ... 😃👏 Great tip, thank you.
Glad it was helpful! 👍🙏😎
Hey Will, new to final cut... what is that target thing a 0:11 called and where can I get things like that???
Anyone have thoughts to point me in the right direction??
Hey Dylan, I bought that asset as part of a pack from video hive (envato) they have loads of cool packs in various styles for final cut 👍
@@WillChidlow Amazing thank you I'll have a look
This was so helpful. Thank you Will! 👍
Glad it was helpful!
brilliant, well that was easier than what I thought it would be, thank you.
Glad it helped
GREAT VIDEO! EXACTLY THE INFO I NEEDED!!
Will, you're a star! Thank you so much for this video!!!!!
My pleasure! YOU are a star!
Thank you! Perfect how to on t his and straight forward.
Thanks Roddy! 👍🙏😎
most iconic tutorial ever. THANK YOU!!!!
You're welcome! Thanks Daniel
OMG so easy haha I've been doing it like your first method all the time. Thanks!
Glad I could help! 👍🙏😎
Thank you! Just what I needed to know. Great video.
Glad it was helpful!
That video was AWESOME!
AWESOME TO HEAR!! 👍🙏😎
OMG thank you so much for making this tutorial. I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out.
Happy to help!
This is excellent. Thx for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank You! Was looking for this for a long time, time to take my editing to the next level!
Nice one 👍👍😎
finally, a video that is actually doing what I m looking for. geeez, thank you.
Glad I could help! 👍🙏😎
Thanks I just started editing my first video and I’m still very new to final cut.this help I pray to be this big someday
You got this! 💪
This is gold for me. Thank you sooooo much!!
You are very welcome! 👍🙏😎
Great intro and info! Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks Stephanie! 👍🙏😎
Ahhhh so helpful. Thank you so much!!!
*Perfect thank you! Working on this new channel and now I need my work to improve!*
👍🙏😎
Oh this was perfect! Thank you. Came across you as was looking for how to adjusrment layer - so just watched that vid and downloaded it - thanks for the free download. And am now bingeing on all your other videos. This use of the range tool just makes it so much quicker sorting out sound - so a great little tip. Right....off to watch more haha. Cheers 👍🏼👍🏼 Stuart
You're very welcome!
Thanks for the help! its so simple
Thanks Will, great tutorial
Cheers Dave 👍🙏😎
Great video. I'm surprised you're not more popular. Well done.
Thanks so much! Haha I’m working on it 👍🙏😎
Great video, thank so much for this! Very useful! Now... how can I get captioning in the video?!
Adding captions/subtitles is really easy in FCPX. Edit > Captions > Add caption. Just make sure you define the type of caption you want to use before you add them all (Modify > Assign caption roles > edit roles) I generally use SRT as they play well for most platforms. Adding and editing captions is much like adding titles once you get the hang of it. Hope that helps, thanks for watching
@@WillChidlow I figured out the captioning and typing it myself, works a great! Appreciate your “like” and the reply as well. Great to know you’re active on here.
I should have said this is a “Ducking Cool” video! 😂 🦆
Thank you ! Great video, straight to the point.
Thanks Moe!
This helped me! Subscribed! Thanks mate!
Great explanation. Very useful! Thank you!!
Awesome to hear, thanks 👍🙏😎
This is great. I actually didn’t know about this option in FCPX. Thank you!!
Great to hear Myles, glad I could help 👍🙏😎
I finally know how to do it and I know what the feature is called. Thanks so much :)
Happy to help Shadey! 🙏👍😎
Will, since FCP X was introduced I always wondered why it doesn't have audio mixer like FCP Studio 7 had, where you used sliders for individual tracks and could edit levels on the fly. Audio ducking was so easy.
I agree, it’s a shame they don’t have side chaining like other programmes 👍😎🙏
Thank you Will. I've just started using Final Cut and that was my main problem to solve.
Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
thank you thank you thank you - months later...this video saved me!
Great to hear!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED
Glad it helped! 👍🙏😎
Thank you for this video! Going to put this in my saved folders and sub to this channel. I'm learning FCP. Do you record your screen when you are doing tutorials?
Hey Phillip, thanks for watching, glad you found it helpful. Yeah I record my screen for tutorials using QuickTime. Here’s a whole video of how I make my tutorials: ruclips.net/video/Crs6gcJp_Lc/видео.html
@@WillChidlow thank you for replying! Going to check it out!
Thanks a lot Will. Very helpful. I'm new to FCPX so would you mind telling me how did you get the volume display to show in the bottom right side of the screen (seen from 1:09)? I've tried clicking on everything and I can't get it to show on mine. Also, what do the two little green channels under 'audio configuration' on the far right correspond with? Which is the active one?
Glad to help! Audio meters are turned on using the drop down menus at the top of the screen, I can’t remember exactly but I think it’s in window or workspace and you are looking for audio meters. The green tracks are the stereo audio tracks you should be able to expand them and there is a tick box to turn them on/off. I normally record external audio and sync in post so I would have 2, 1 original timeline audio (disabled) and then connected audio enabled. Hope that helps, sorry if my explanations are slightly vague I’m not in front of my Mac right now. Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
This is super helpful! Thank you so much.
You're so welcome!
Thank you, great tutorial. Directly to the point with prime examples where a cut could go wrong
Thanks very much, glad you found it helpful! 👍🙏😎
Good god! Thank you. I’ve been doing it wrong all along. I did it how you did it first, plus some other thing... not as good, definitely
Hi Will, I'm a little late to the party on this one(!), but great tutorial.
I'm trying to do this over a number of clips but it doesn't seem to be working for me beyond the clip I start with - am I missing something?
Cheers, Martin
Hi Martin, you’ll need to nest multiple clips into a compound clip for that to work 👍🙏😎
Thanks for the great, easy way to do it!
Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
Perfect! Thank you!
Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
Just the tutorial I was looking for! Perfectly explained!
Great to hear! 👍🙏😎
This was great! Thank you so much
You're so welcome! Thanks Wesley
Very helpful! Many thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Very helpful! :)
Thanks Will. Much respect bro
Any time!
Awesome thank you i was looking for this for a while.
Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
Really helpful. Now, how did you get that volume dial effect you had at the start of your video?
Glad to help Matthew! I may do a video about that intro technique so make sure your subscribed so you don’t miss it!
Thank you for this! I died laughing at first because I did it EXACTLY the way you did not recommend we do this lol
Awesome! Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
nice exactly what i needed to learn!
Glad I could help!
Great video by the way.
Thanks! 😎
Thanks for this tutorial!
Thanks Chris 👍🙏😎
Sweet! Thank you 👍👍
Any time!
It'd be great if FCPX supported actual "auto ducking" meaning that you can use the chat channel and the volume of the music adapts to when you are taking, sort of like a compressor would do. Filmora has this feature, although I really hate Filmora now, but was hopping FCPX would have offered the same pro feature, but it doesn't. Using keyframes is definitely not auto ducking, but I guess is a compromise. Filmora is damn slow on my Mac m1, on my iMac i7 and on my windows using a gaming card 1080TI, tons of ram, fast drive, etc.
yeah I really wish FCPX had this feature too, I believe there are a few plugins which offer this via side chaining but on looking last they all seemed a bit clunky to me. fingers crossed Apple add this in a future update 🙏👍😎
Very strange FCPX has no ducking feature, as I remember even the iMovie had this many years ago.
love your videos bro.
Thanks! 👍🙏😎
Nice one Willy
Cheers Timmy 👍🙏😎
Mate, thank you so much for that!
No worries! 👍🙏😎
Thank you for this video! I found it extremely useful; concise.
Glad it was helpful!
Too bad I didn't come across this video before I uploaded my latest video!! smh, I needed some music in it but didn't know how to do this, but I know, THANK YOU SO MUCH for this helpful video!
Awesome! Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
Great video! Thank You!
That's gonna be helpful. Cheers.
Glad to help! 👍🙏😎
Really nice tutorial! thanks
Awesome! Thanks for watching 👍🙏😎
This is life saver :D Thank you!
You're welcome!
Bravo!! thank you soo much for this ,really helps! Got a completely out of topic question, i see your studio set up,and i'm wondering is that big screen as a secondary monitor to yer laptop? im asking cause i would like to get a second monitor, for my MackBook and not sure if is worthy it and if laptop would manage . I'm working with a MacBook Pro AMD Radeon 2GB Graphic cards.Any Help?
Thank you,
keep up the tutorials im loving it!
Hey! Yep it’s a second screen running from my laptop, it is definitely a life saver to have more screen to work with and way better for my neck! Just be careful when choosing a screen, mine is 2560x1440 and works fine but I have heard people finding there laptops struggling to run full 4K monitors due to the extra strain on the graphics card 👍🙏😎
You're a legend - thanks so much!
Nice one Will 👍
Cheers Dean 🙏
thank you for this one!
You’re very welcome 👍🙏😎
What if the voice audio and the music are in the same track? How would you be able to lower the music and still hear the voice audio?
Gold. Thank you.
You're welcome! Thanks Kris!
legend thank you so much!!!