How to Work with Audio in Final Cut Pro

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Shana Bethune and on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to talk to you about working with audio and video track in final cut pro. So let's say I have been working on a sequence and I have the all the audio in the correct order but I want to change just the video. What I can do is click on this little lock icon right here and lock the audio tracks. So that way any changes that I make to the video track won't affect the audio tracks. So for example I want to replace this video clip right here with some B roll. So I select the clip, I go over to the B roll in my viewer and the clip that I want to use and I click overwrite. This way the audio stays the same but the video changes. Another thing I can do is I can if I want to add a sound track for a example to my clip I change the source so it is going to the 3rd audio track rather than the 2nd one and then once the source is directed to the 3rd track I can add in my audio track down here. It would play along with the 2 audio tracks that I already have rather than replacing them. I can also lock the video track if I want to add audio and not effect the video. Even though most of the clips you would be working with will have 2 audio tracks and one video track it is important to remember that you can work with the audio and video separately and you can also add more audio track or more video track if you like to have more than one image or more than one sound playing at the same time. So while you are editing try not think of audio and video as something that is paired no matter what. Think of them separately. "