MBS 487 GarageBand Loops in FCPX

[@brucekennedy5274]

True professional to go back and correct your earlier statement - This is what I love about you guys:- always experimenting, trying the "what-if's" and finding new and helpful workflows.

[@jwboll]

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou. I've been wondering how to access these sounds from FCPX without having to dig through garage band for a few years now, and I finally found your video.

[@miguelito6031]

Wow, I can’t believe many of the repetitive “cool hacks” videos have more views than this. This is actual useful content. Thanks a lot!

[@merzan]

What is great about this (and thanks to Steve) is my available stock for (musical) foley just increased by more than 1830 items from the Hip Hop, Electro House, Chillwave, Drummer and more folders. Of course, it now takes FCPX 8 days and 8 nights to bring all those music files to view in FCPX, but I can dig that because it's like every editing session is Hannukah all over again and there are so many gifts to open (ha ha).

[@brucekennedy5274]

I'm no music professional, but I have used Garage band for many years to "get the job done". These days however, I find I mainly use FCPX for basic arrangement and manipulation of things like stock background music. I know something like Logic is way more powerful, but I find using FCPX for simple audio editing incredibly flexible and intuitive.

[@rippleguys]

Me too. Thanks Bruce

[@mdturnerinoz]

Thanks for this; one can never have too many sounds to choose from!

[@vidvertise001]

Steve, Now I have access to my SoundTrack Pro loops and 6 Jam Packs 325 FILES now accessible with FCPX. There are some duplicates but there are thousands of quality loops. Thank You so much. I would never have thought to make aliases to import into FCP's sound effects file.

[@anthemofadam]

So helpful! I used your method to pull in an applause sfx from GB to one of my video projects. Thanks so much for making this!

[@onemoretimetexas]

What a great solution! This will really open up some creative possibilities. Thank you for figuring this out!

[@paulelliott6488]

This is amazing. As a prolific composer, I only want to set a basic tone in FCPX, and I don't want to roundtrip to Logic. This is all I need. Thank you!

[@rippleguys]

Thanks Paul!

[@JWP452]

Perfect! Concise! Easy to Understand! It Worked!

[@sigridlee3743]

This was super helpful, exactly what I needed right now.

[@matiakd]

This is so good! So helpful!! I don’t need to sign up to undoes websites and spend heaps of time looking for royalty free music to download

[@michaelch5060]

You guys are always killin' it Steve! Thanks for sharing

[@mdshishirsarfaraz]

Cool man.You guys are always helpful

[@Murphoon]

Brilliant! I was trying to find a way to use Loops, in FCPX, only yesterday. I ended up using Jingles, in Sound FX. This opens up many more possibilities. Thank you.

[@ZiitsprungMedia]

Great!! i tried the same procedure with my huge, old Loop Library from SoundTrack Pro - and it Works fine!!

[@rippleguys]

Awesome!

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Thank you sir. I've been thinking about a way to do this myself. (: To answer your question; yes I will be using these tools myself as I work in FCPX.

[@JohnKuehne_SF]

Another huge timesaving tool from an amazing team. I did this with all of my SFX libraries as well. Thanks a ton for everything you produce. I never feel like I've spent enough money with Ripple to pay for the value of all your extra goodies ;-)

[@shandybrandy5407]

Simply brilliant! For a long, long time I was wondering that if the Garrage Band loops could be brought into FCPX and you have just proven it. Thanks-za- ton!

[@eljnlmfam]

Amazing Steve! You're a genius!

[@NielNhuNguyen]

Thanks for sharing with us. such a great tutorial.

[@PhotokaaranDhas]

Really very useful for everyone,Thx...

[@saeetembhekar]

Thank you! This helped so much!

[@LesProductionsTechnoDenis2014]

Great! A lot of fun ahead!

[@vidvertise001]

Steve! This is BIG! Thanks Sooo Much

[@Mad4More]

That was extremely helpful. Thanks a lot!

[@nathenmcevoy8521]

Great idea Steve! Got me thinking, what if you run them through iTunes instead? My thought is this would still allow them to appear in the FCPX browser, but maybe just be a bit more clean in the sense that you wouldn’t need to correct the role assignment afterward.

[@rippleguys]

I have not tried it, but I suppose you could create a Music (formally iTunes) playlist and add all your loops to that, so that they would appear in that sidebar.

[@javawocky]

Never thought of it this way and I can see how this would be a quick workflow. Just to add you can drag a video into GarageBand and do the loops there. Live loops is wel worth having a play with.

[@StephenWEwart]

Great tip, thanks Steve. I use Logic, when I bounce a file it gets automatically added to Itunes which is handy to access within FCP X.

[@andrewjones-productions]

Actually, I wish it would stop putting everything into iTunes or whatever its called these days. I would like to see iTunes improved to include unique containers for professional apps instead of having some obscure sound effect be amongst my personal listening 'record' collection.

[@AzovPort]

Thank you Ripple Training!

[@EarlMartin]

Wow! Thank you!

[@BenjaminGib]

Thank you Steve!

[@SYPCWAK]

Thanks for another great video Steve! Yes I can see myself using this.

[@ruffneck718]

Yes, thank you Sir.

[@gairngorms]

Thank you very much for this.

[@andrewjones-productions]

This is good. Nevertheless, it does expose a weakness in the Apple set of creative apps. I.e., iMovie, FCPX, GarageBand and Logic Pro X. Whilst there is a degree of interconnectivity between the apps, this could be a whole lot better if Apple put their minds to it. For me, the way that FCPX and Logic Pro X work together is not just cumbersome, it is shoddy in design. Your description of how you would use the Apple loops to illustrate to a composer is in itself, a very intuitive and practical idea. Indeed, my main client Producer regularly uses iMovie to make a draft rendition of the ultimate video to both illustrate to the offline editor how he'd like the edit to look and also to show the advertising agency and customer something that is clearer to them than a storyboard on a piece of paper. All of this is a good use of these very capable apps. However, if Apple does not make them integrate better with each other and even with other editing software much like Pages, Numbers and Keynote will create a Microsoft Office version, then the Apple suite of apps are in danger of becoming illustrative tools rather than the go-to tools. FCPX is my preferred editing suite and it is great. However, I do tend to feel that Adobe's Premiere Pro and Audition have a much better integration than Apple's FCPX and Logic Pro X. Please note, that as I haven't used Premiere Pro and Audition together, it is nothing more than my 'feeling' and the impression that I am getting. You know, the same kind of impression that others get when they decide on which software to purchase.

[@rippleguys]

FCPX to Logic has gotten much better, almost useable now, but I agree, could be much better.

[@hold124]

@@rippleguys Do you have any training videos that show how to integrate LPX with FCPX? Thanks!

[@garudasomanna]

Thank you Steve for enriching FCPX with GB loops. Now, let me ask you another question: Can we have FCPX's audio plugins to work in GarageBand? Why I ask is this: some of FCPX's plugins such as EQ have a better display and better features than that in GarageBand. Upgrading to Big Sur and going for a higher version of GB might give me a better Q in GB, but I don't want to migrate to Big Sur as of now. Waiting for your answer. Regards Dr. Somanna

[@rippleguys]

No, you need to upgrade to Logic because all of FCP's audio plugins are from Logic.

[@garudasomanna]

@@rippleguys 😢hope you will re-think and come up with another 'eureka' video😀

[@SefaDrums]

Such an awesome idea! Cant wait to try it out. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@timbeaton5045]

This is an excellent and cool trick. And certainly will have some usage straight away, albeit with the limitations you pointed out. What would be even cooler, is if Apple could add a tempo track to FCP (as exists in Logic). This could open up a whole field of cutting picture to music with bars and beats, say, right within the application. Even just a tempo track would enable this. We can already sync a single video in Logic, for doing music to picture, albeit just a simple synced playback, but a really useful tool. A simple (yeah, i know!) addition the other way round would be fantastic. You don't have to have all the bells and whistles.. bars, actual looping, key transposition etc. just a tempo track What do you think, Apple??? (I'm sure they are reading this right now, and stroking their chins!🤣)

[@FireInMyBones]

I knew it. Right before you said it, I said to myself, make an alias and viola. But also, understanding we have different programs for different things, why couldn’t Apple make an in house ecosystem? Just a thought...

[@andrewjones-productions]

Exactly!

[@kwaaui]

One way with Logic Pro X projects is: File/Share/Song to Media Browser. The first time you do it a Logic Pro X folder appears inside Final Cut Pro's Photos and Audio sidebar and every Logic project you share to the Media Browser will appear inside Final Cut from now on. I don't know if GarageBang works the same way.

[@rippleguys]

kwaaui | alessio morglia I just tested this in GB - works the same way

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Nice & Thanks :)

[@docn.235]

Really useful!!!

[@KevinJohnson7]

Love it!

[@richardruda267]

Excellent

[@billfried626]

Thanks!

[@tegarroessaptono9072]

thank you !

[@max_fadeev]

nice, thanks!

[@rap819]

Thanks

[@kristinkirby1362]

Heck yeah!

[@SPProps]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

[@laughinggas5060]

thanks for sharing! very useful, helpful :D

[@AnunciadoresdelReino]

GRACIAS,

[@monksom]

WOW, very useful tipps. how ar about copyright concern. can we use these sounds for youtube or facebook video?

[@TomLong]

I build the music track in GarageBand and export it to my FCP album in iTunes from which I can import it into FCP. That way I enjoy both the power of Garageband for the music production and save FCP for combining the music with the video. Admittedly, unlike the method shown in your video, you would have to know how to use GarageBand to do it my way.

[@rippleguys]

The good new about GB is, it's fairly easy to learn - and musically having a bars and beats environment is much better musically.

[@andersutterstrom6089]

Once again you score! -:) Thanks!

[@kumudhamdsp]

Great

[@linvideozpr]

спасибо!

[@EugeneMaynard]

🙏🏾

[@BarryMountford]

Are they copyrighted? I have claims on some videos when I have used apple loops?

[@timbeaton5045]

Good question, as i have heard other comments that this has happened. Maybe it's because the legal copyright only extends to audio use? i.e adding to video comes under different rules? I have no actual idea, but it made me think...

[@JandeBloois1952]

I use the FCP Trial version. Can that be the cause that I can not find the Final Cut Pro Sound Effects Folder? I DO have the iLife folder with the same sounds, plus all other GarageBand Loops packs (made for iPad, but imported in GB on my M1 MacMini).

[@alankelly5456]

Very useful, many thanks Steve. Quick question - do you actually need a second story line rather than just connecting the audio to the primary story line... which is what you seem to be doing with the later loops?

[@rippleguys]

Alan Kelly you don’t need to, but I find it helpful because if you have a longer loop section it’s easier to move the group as a unit.

[@titusnixon]

I find that to be very Logic

[@blacklabelminiatures]

Are you able to actually take a song/loop and make it auto loop to the length of a video w/o copy/pasting the audio over and over?

[@rippleguys]

Black Label Miniatures no - the loop must be copied and pasted

[@Gentlemans_sport]

What drives me mad FCPX and GB do not behave the same :( example: zooming by mouse is reversed, missing looping and stretching, it looks that those two software were developed by two SEPARATE teams, even more they do not talk to each other

[@rippleguys]

They absolutely were developed by two separate teams.

[@vinnielangdonshow]

"It's very loopy!" LOL

[@philstifte2211]

Have you got any idea, why I don't see my self made tracks from Garageband in the Garagebandfolder in FCPX?

[@rippleguys]

In GarageBand, Share to Media Browser. This is the only way it will appear, plus, you will have to quit and reopen FCPX in order to see it.

[@re9724]

Question here: Even though I followed your instructions and placed the "alias" folder into the "Sound effects" folder and then renamed the folder as stated, and all went well up to that procedure, the Apple Loops for GarageBand alias showed up again in the Apple Loops folder. Can I move this folder to the trash or does it have to stay? The reason I ask is because I didn't see an alias file appear again in your Apple Loops folder after you placed the alias folder into the Sound Effect folder. Do I still need this folder even though there is an exact folder inside the sound effects folder, although the name is different?

[@rippleguys]

I moved the Alias, so it should only exist in the Sound Effects folder. If you have two aliases. delete the extra one in the Apple Loops folder -

[@re9724]

@@rippleguys Thank you!

[@remektekmedia6641]

My Sound Effects folder in FCPX takes AGES to populate. Like 15 minutes! Why so? Secondly, how does your method differ from clicking on the GarageBand name in the music browser, right above iTunes (or Music)?

[@rippleguys]

15 minutes??? On my system it's maybe 5 seconds. I suppose the more folders in the SFX folder, the longer it can take Final Cut Pro to index. The GarageBand sidebar only populates with GarageBand projects, not loops and the Music sidebar is for bounced songs or songs in your music (formally iTunes) library. I suppose you could bounce out individual loops, but that seems like a lot of work.

[@timbeaton5045]

@@rippleguys Worked in seconds for me.

[@raymondkeenaghan5194]

I followed along but the loops are not showing up in FCPX. I even copied the entire folder across and it still doesn't appear. I've turned off and on FCPX thinking maybe that was the problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[@rippleguys]

Make sure the version you are running is downloaded from the App store and you are not running it from a copy you got somewhere else. The app store ensures that all the supplemental content is put in the location that FCP X can recognize.

[@Keenonhang]

It’s definitely a legit copy. I bought it from the App Store.

[@rippleguys]

​@@KeenonhangIs your OS up to date? Also make sure that there are NO other copies of FCP X anywhere else on your system. Outside of that, not sure why you aren't seeing the loops.

[@Keenonhang]

@@rippleguys I have FCPX on my Macbook and it worked on that perfectly. But it's on my iMac that it's not working. I'll try a few more things. Should be able figure it out.

[@rud]

Be prepared to receive a ton of content ID claims if you upload them to KZbin. Sometimes even multiple "artists" claim rights to the same piece of music because they have used those loops. I have more than one video claimed.

[@ronconi]

Martin J Me too, but most dropped when I’ve show the original Apple loops