How to Equalize Audio in Final Cut Pro

This is how professional video editors equalize audio in Final Cut Pro. Final Cut has 20 EQ effects. What the heck?! Don’t worry, I’ll show you the best one and how to EQ your dialogue like the pros. Stay till the end because I’m gonna show you a cool trick for mixing your voice & music without dropping your music’s volume.
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Built In Equalization
01:30 - Channel EQ
04:54 - Equalize Dialogue
07:47 - Match Audio
08:37 - Voice + Music EQ trick
09:42 - Outro
Happy editing! Let me know if you need any help or have any questions.
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How to Equalize Audio in Final Cut Pro

[@MattOrchardCrimeandSociety]

Appreciate the tutorial, been messing around with a bunch of things today and this one has been the easiest to follow so far :)

[@StupidRaisins]

You're welcome!

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

You are doing a very good job. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@StupidRaisins]

I appreciate that!

[@bobrosberg55]

Love your videos, always extremely helpful.

[@StupidRaisins]

Glad you like them!

[@bobrosberg55]

Great video, thanks! Really enjoy your work.

[@StupidRaisins]

Thanks for watching!

[@the_smart_home_maker]

Great tutorial! Thank you!!

[@StupidRaisins]

You got it

[@kamilosieglewski2129]

The last tip was very useful. Thank you.

[@StupidRaisins]

You're welcome!

[@EugenBrinzoiu]

It was super helpful, thank you

[@StupidRaisins]

I'm so glad!

[@Marteeyet]

Thanks a lot brother.

[@StupidRaisins]

Always welcome

[@neutrinoradio7894]

OMG THANK YOU

[@StupidRaisins]

You're welcome

[@tooleko]

great vid

[@StupidRaisins]

Great comment. ;)

[@barbaraskibinska9128]

Thank you! I was looking foe something exactly like that! If I could have a question: how to record videos like that one? So that we see your face and what you are doing on your computer? Record my screen and separately record myself and the combine in fcp?

[@StupidRaisins]

You're welcome. I record my screen with Screenflow and myself with my Sony a6500 camera. Then I sync them in FCP and edit.

[@orajintv]

Cool video and I can get to that stage thanks. I want to add a third track to crossfade into the second one but it snaps to the first.. and I can't move it.. any tips..?

[@orajintv]

Don't worry I think ive sussed it.. Control S and move it below the second.. Boom.. 😎

[@StupidRaisins]

Nice work!

[@orajintv]

@@StupidRaisins was working on a chilled ambient mix. Came out like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHO3ia19gamjb8Usi=EygYGICq_bq5Bk_J so it worked really well 😎🙏

[@StupidRaisins]

Nice job!

[@NaturalGallantBodybuilding]

not sure why the sound waves are not showing up when I use the eq in FCPX

[@StupidRaisins]

Make sure and follow my steps.

[@NaturalGallantBodybuilding]

@@StupidRaisins I did

[@StupidRaisins]

Can you show me what you're seeing?@@NaturalGallantBodybuilding

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

Dylan, I hope you have a great memory....I'm going to try my luck!!....In one of your videos either about audio or how to edit, you showed how to delete one of the blue boxes in the audio configuration because one of those boxes is a repeat of the other (where it says "Dialogue 1"). I went through more than 14 videos of yours yesterday and I can't find it!! Would you remember in which video you talk about that?

[@StupidRaisins]

Are you talking about deleting one of these? loom.com/i/7e53eb07142f4ecdbd23be657c21361f

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

@StupidRaisins Yes!!!! The deletion was only to keep things tidy. Expecially when you have audio from the video, music, ect. I don't remember if you delete the 1st or 2nd "blue box" and where you delete it from....I can't find a delete option.....I remember I did cancel one of the "Dialogue box" in a previous video edit of mine but can't remember how I did it. Thanks!!!!

[@StupidRaisins]

I don't think you can delete them but you can deactivate them by unchecking the box.

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

@@StupidRaisins /You are absolutely right! I'm sorry if I confused you!! I remembered....basically Dialogue and Music (if you have any) appear both with the name "Dialogue". You were saying to change the Music clips to the name (I think they are called "roles") "Music", to keep things tidy and how they are supposed to be called. Also the music clips color changes to green so it's even easier to differentiate! Sorry again if you were getting crazy trying to remember something that it wasn't!! :) Thanks again for all the videos and support...I'm going to hide now with shame...... :)

[@StupidRaisins]

No worries!

[@bobrosberg55]

I have a problem/question. I recently added a clip to the timeline and when I play it, the audio and video are a second or two off. Not synchronized. Both are out of camera, the audio was not recorded on an other device. When I play the same clip on quick time or in the browser, it sounds fine. But when put in the timeline, not synchronized. Older clips sound fine. Any ideas what the problem might be? Thanks!

[@StupidRaisins]

That's weird. What are the clip video and audio specs? What are the project settings?

[@bobrosberg55]

@@StupidRaisins Thanks for your reply. The shot video clips were shot at 25fps, and I discovered that the project settings were at 23.98(?). I changed it to 25 so now it works fine. But what was strange for me was that previous clips in the timeline did not have that problem, and still do not. Why it suddenly happened with newer clips is a mystery.

[@bobrosberg55]

@@StupidRaisins I found people with similar problems on fcpx forums and I think one person mentioned, in a reply, that a difference in fps between the clip and project settings could be a problem. Maybe that was my problem. Thanks again for your swift reply. Really enjoy your videos!

[@StupidRaisins]

@@bobrosberg55 That is strange that some clips are unaffected. FCP usually does a good job conforming clips and projects with different rates. I hope you can get your project done and let me know if you need more help.

[@tieto33]

What about limiter and compressor?

[@StupidRaisins]

Both are great tools but in this tutorial I wanted to focus on just the equalizer.

[@almonaro855]

How can I learn what is the tiny red circle which sits in the middle of the TIMELINE INDICATOR? What is it telling the editor?

[@StupidRaisins]

Show me what you mean. Take a screenshot please.

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

I think he meant the black circle with red border that is part of the red playhead when you press stop.....that sits in the middle of your clip.......maybe......

[@StupidRaisins]

Possibly.

[@almonaro855]

Yes! ¿What is it? It comes and goes; no idea what it indicates.

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

@almonaro855 " It indicates which clip/title attributes are shown in the inspector. It usually is over the topmost clip. It indicates a targeted clip. For instance if you press Cmd-6 for the color board and make an adjustment it will effect the clip with the circle on it." This is from the Apple forum.