Final Cut Pro X & Logic Pro X: 2 Mixing Dialog, Music, and Effects
4h 21mIntermediate2017-09-05
Authors
Joe Godfrey
Composer, Sounder Designer, Producer
Course details
Many filmmakers and editors who are comfortable with lighting, casting, and shot selection will cringe when it's time to work with sound. But if you're a filmmaker and can't afford a specialist, you should add audio to your skillset.
Award-winning sound designer Joe Godfrey has developed a system for handing off the dialog, music, and effects mix from a Final Cut Pro timeline to Logic Pro. Why Logic? Many of the tools the Final Cut editor is using began there, and Logic has great tools that can be applied to dialog, music, and effects, as well the final mix. There are some things you want to do—in the right order—and some common mistakes you want to avoid. This course covers them all. Learn how to import audio from Final Cut Pro X in Logic Pro X, fix any syncing issues, edit dialog to perfection, add special effects such as pitch shifting and automated EQ, enhance music, and bounce out the final mix, either as a composite track or stems that can be mastered separately.
Learning objectives
Importing AAF, OMF, and XML files
Configuring your workspace
Recognizing and solving sync issues
Adding markers
Mixing on the fly vs at the end
Fixing dialog levels
Fixing dialog texture and ambience
Automating EQ parameters
Autopunch for dialog and Foley
Special effects (SFX) replacement and enhancement
Finishing the mix: compression and limiting
Export options: Composite vs. stems
Archiving a project
Award-winning sound designer Joe Godfrey has developed a system for handing off the dialog, music, and effects mix from a Final Cut Pro timeline to Logic Pro. Why Logic? Many of the tools the Final Cut editor is using began there, and Logic has great tools that can be applied to dialog, music, and effects, as well the final mix. There are some things you want to do—in the right order—and some common mistakes you want to avoid. This course covers them all. Learn how to import audio from Final Cut Pro X in Logic Pro X, fix any syncing issues, edit dialog to perfection, add special effects such as pitch shifting and automated EQ, enhance music, and bounce out the final mix, either as a composite track or stems that can be mastered separately.
Learning objectives
Importing AAF, OMF, and XML files
Configuring your workspace
Recognizing and solving sync issues
Adding markers
Mixing on the fly vs at the end
Fixing dialog levels
Fixing dialog texture and ambience
Automating EQ parameters
Autopunch for dialog and Foley
Special effects (SFX) replacement and enhancement
Finishing the mix: compression and limiting
Export options: Composite vs. stems
Archiving a project
Skills covered
Logic ProFinal Cut ProVideo EditingAppleVideoDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
- 03 - What you should know
1. Building the Template
- 04 - Customizing Logic Pro for audio post
- 05 - Global and project preferences
- 06 - Configuring the workspace
- 07 - Channel strips and track cloning
- 08 - Importing the AAF audio
- 09 - Movie sync options
- 10 - Examining the audio files
- 11 - Markers and project notes
2. Editing the Dialogue Clips
- 12 - Adding a wild dialogue line
- 13 - Muting extraneous clips
- 14 - Muting lip smacks and clicks
- 15 - Clip gain and clip fades
- 16 - Dialogue ambiance options
- 17 - Autopunch and Swipe Comping for ADR and Foley
- 18 - Adding the iZotope RX6 plugin
3. SFX for the Movie
- 19 - Room tone options
- 20 - Automating EQ parameters
- 21 - SFX library in Logic
- 22 - Flex audio and file editing
- 23 - Pitch shift using a DSP plugin
- 24 - Music track EQ and volume
- 25 - Anchors in audio files
4. Mixing and Exporting
- 26 - Bounce parameters
- 27 - Output level options
- 28 - Loudness meter in Logic
- 29 - Bouncing the composite mix
- 30 - Bouncing DME stems
- 31 - Archiving the project
Conclusion
- 32 - Summary