Zooming & Stereo Pairs for Audio Files in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I will finish up talking about navigation for audio. Now you can navigate by zooming. The farther out you are from it the harder it is to really get a nice edit. Especially with audio because with audio you are going to be working in increments of you know frames a lot because to tweak off audio you have to go frame by frame by frame. So let's zoom in here. You will notice the close I get the more spread out these audio .WAV forms get. This is one frame now. You can see all of the different noises that are happening inside of the layer here. Then it will help you to really fine tune your edit. Now you will notice too, let me zoom out a bit and let me take off these .WAV forms real quick, is that you have these little triangles. All right, these little green or when they are highlighted, pink triangles that are pointing to the mid point between both of these audio tracks. That is a stereo pair representation. What a stereo pair is it means that these tracks are linked together. One is left channel and one is right channel. Now if you want to have audio come in on left speaker and not the right, what you have to do is separate these and that is called unlinking. You want to unlink the stereo pair. So let me just zoom out here real quick. You notice that all of these have these little triangles in it. So what you do is highlight it and then you go up to modify and stereo pair is checked here. Just go ahead and uncheck it. Now those triangles go away and now I can select each clip independently of the other one. The quick key for that, let's say I want to relink these now is just option L and now they are back together as a stereo pair. "