Pop Killer
For one reason or another you may get an audio pop at the edit point or even within a clip. Most video applications allow you to edit video at the frame level. Final Cut Pro goes way beyond this by allowing audio edits as small as 1/100th of a frame.
- 1 Open the clip
in the Viewer by double-clicking, and choose the
Audio tab.
2 Place the playhead over the click. - Zoom in as far
as possible by pressing Command + =. When zoomed
in all the way, you’ll see a highlighted region
that’s one frame wide.
4 Hold the Shift key down, and drag the playhead. Park over the exact place where the pop appears. - Use the Pen
tool to add four keyframes in a row. The center
two keyframes should straddle the audio problem.
The outer keyframes are placed a few 100ths of a
frame from the pop.
6 Drag the inner keyframes down to –60 db. The unwanted noise should now be inaudible. The rest of the clip should sound unaltered.
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