Today, we're learning how to bring over audio from iTunes or off a disk.
Let's say you're at home and you want to bring a song into the lab.
In iTunes, you've probably set your account up to import settings to get MP3s to save
on space.
To check this out, to see if you have done this, go to iTunes, go to Preferences, and
under that first general tab, when it says, when you insert a CD asked to import, import
settings, click on import settings.
And if in fact you have MP3 encoder, you're going to have to change that.
Change it to AIFF encoder.
AIFF is Audio Interchange File Format.
That's the file that Final Cut Pro really loves to work with.
So click on that so that you have the AIFF encoder selected and hit OK.
Now whenever you have a song that you want to use, you can click on that and then you
can go to Advanced and go to Create AIFF Version.
Click on AIFF Version and no matter what you had before, it'll make an AIFF of that file.
So now it's going to put it right below it.
And what you want to do there is shift Apple R, that's a great shortcut to reveal that
file in the Finder.
You can also get to that by going to File, Show in Finder.
There's our file, so I'm going to grab it and I'm going to bring it over to my desktop
folder.
And then from there, I'm going to import it into my Final Cut Pro browser.
Apple Eye, it's a quick shortcut to import.
So now that I have it here in my browser, I can double click it.
It populates the viewer screen.
It's a stereo pair, stereo mix down.
I can set my end point right here and I can preview it.
OK, this one's for Gabby.
OK, I don't really want that guy saying those words, I just want to start with the ukulele.
So I'm going to put my taskbar right there, hit I, perfect.
And I'm just going to put out not too far behind it, and then I'm going to tweak it
in the timeline.
So here I am at the start of my video, I'm going to bring it in, I'm going to drag, change
my track height real quick, drag A1 and A2 down to A3 and A4 so that we're not going
over our natural sound that we recorded at the green belt.
And then bring it over, and then you can stretch it out for as long as you need.
There we go, and now you can listen to it, see how that looks.
Very good.
You can do a fade in on audio like this by just clicking on the end and going control
click and add transition, crossfade, you can do that at the end too.
You can also stretch the crossfade, you know if you want a really long crossfade, or you
can use the pen tools like I showed you before.
So that's how you bring in music.
You can also change in GarageBand if you want to do it that way.
Any file that you have, you can throw it into GarageBand and then do file export, and it
will automatically make a, I'm sorry, share export, do not compress, and it will make an
AIF file for you.
Let's take a look at that.
So fade in on my natural sound as well, and my video.
Sounds great.
That's how you bring in a file.
Remember, we don't want to bring in MP3s.
MP3s are spotty, they don't always work, they don't sound good, the audio is not as good.
Bring in an AIF, be sure you convert it either in GarageBand or iTunes.
If you have something on a CD, you don't even need iTunes at all.
Put your CD in your CD in the computer, double click the CD icon, and these are AIF files
already good to go for you.
So if you have a CD, grab the track you want, grab it, put it in your desktop folder, and
then import that into Final Cut Pro when you're done.
The great thing about CDs is they automatically make AIF files for you.
And that's it for bringing in music into Final Cut Pro.
Also, just another quick note, whenever you bring in music to Final Cut Pro, it's usually
going to be too loud.
It's usually going to be a little bit hotter than negative 6, so you're going to have to
bring it down.
Let's see what this sounds like.
So it's a little bit loud.
That combined with my natural sound, it's going to push my limits over negative 6 TB,
so I'm going to double click it, and a quick shortcut is Control Minus.
Control Minus will bring it down in the increments of one decibel, and you can also do it while
you play it.
So you can play it and do Control Minus or Control Plus.
It's kind of sketchy, but it works.
Okay, that's it.
