Using the Audio Mixer in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to introduce to you the audio mixer. So now I will explain to you about the audio mixer. What is the audio mixer The audio mixer provides faders, panning sliders. It has a solo and mute controls for each track in your sequence. It also has some master meters for each audio output channel in your sequence. So as you make your level and pan adjustments in real time, you can record these adjustments as key frames. Allowing you to automate your mix when you play the sequence back. You can also use a hardware control surface to control and automate multiple faders at once. So after you record level and pan key frames, you can fine tune them in the time line or the viewer using the pen tool to adjust the clip overlays. So let's go ahead and open up the audio mixer. So go to tools, go down to audio mixer which is the first one down. Okay, let me enlarge this for you. Okay, so this is the audio mixer right here. So let's go over some of the tracks first. First you have track visibility control. So that is this little triangle right here. You click that to get rid of it, to hide it or show it. You have to have your track name right down here; A1, A2, A3, A 4 so now what happens with these, these are also showing which ones are toggle. All right. Now you have the track strips area right here These are all called track strips. Up top you have your mute and your solo and below that you have your panning slider. Now this panning slider you can see has its little r an little l here. That's for left and right. A1 and A 2 are set up as a stereo pair. So one is coming through on the right and one on the left. You can use this pan slider to change that. You can put them both on the middle or you can even independently move then between left and right. You can change them however you want."