An Audio/Editing/Final Cut Pro Question

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crot0019

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Hey all I have a question regarding audio in FCP. I have a shoot coming up and its the first short film im shooting live audio on. I am shooting using the HVR-Z1u and recording audio using the zoom h4n. Now I am recording the audio separate from the video track and planing to sync later using a clapper board and matching up with the waveform thing. Now this is where my question lies;

When I match the audio clips to the images (i.e when the clapper board closes), is there a way to just permanently link the audio to that particular clip. I'm guessing if there was After I have done my batch capture of video I would have to go through another process of syncing it all up then begin with cutting...

I really don't know the logical way to do this because I don't want to have to sync up the audio every time if i wanna use a different portion of the video clip later on...

I hope that makes sense :)

appreciate any help you can give me
 
In final cut pro, if you have the video and audio highlighted, just push Apple + L and it will link them together.
 
Cool! But if I go through a process of linking all my audio in the timeline by doing Apple + L can I move the newly joined clips back into where the original clips go? Or If I've already saved it will it just permanently be joined from then on.
 
crot0019 said:
Cool! But if I go through a process of linking all my audio in the timeline by doing Apple + L can I move the newly joined clips back into where the original clips go? Or If I've already saved it will it just permanently be joined from then on.
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You will have 'joined' them in a sequence. You then need to use that sequence in the following edits. Or you can 'render/export' out that sequence then reimport it as a stand alone clip, I suppose...

Oh, yeah, set the sample rate on the Zoom to 48K...
 
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You can also drag those joined clips into a bin and drag them into another sequence. They are really joined for the project not the sequence, so any sequence in that project is fine.
 
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