From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Commercial Editing Techniques
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Building the audio foundation for the spot - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Commercial Editing Techniques
Building the audio foundation for the spot
- Once you've organized and identified your best visual material, it's time to start laying the audio foundation for your spot. Then, you can later work on fitting the visual pieces together to best match with the bed of audio that you've created. We're in our project now on the media drive. We're no longer on the demo drive. From this point on, you're free to follow along with the exercise files. Notice that in this project, there are several elements you recognize, like the B roll and the Temporary Music and Voiceover, and there's some other things that you probably don't recognize, but don't worry about that, we'll get to that, just don't touch them for now. Let's first talk about music. Now our commercial is gonna be a montage, which is a collection of images that will be very motivated by the rhythm and tempo of the music. Now the thing is, we don't actually have our final music yet, however, what we do have is this 30-second spot that we've selected with the client from a stock…
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Setting up the project5m 34s
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Marking the best shots to prep the edit2m 58s
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Building the audio foundation for the spot6m 43s
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Laying in the visual structure for the spot4m 53s
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Creating subsequences to experiment and flesh out content9m 1s
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Focusing on timing and pacing5m 27s
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Continuing the edit and working with compound clips4m 55s
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