Audio Pop..What filter if any

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Ldogg

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I'm creating a documentary and I'm trying to break up the words in this interview. The quote is "It's an equal opportunity disease. It affects Black kids/ white kids/ japanese kids/ Chinese kids/ American Kids/ It doesn't matter.

The problem with the Dr. is that the he says the sentence really fast. I am trying to edit on each slash and add room tone so that I can get some footage cuts on top of each descriptor.

The problem with the audio is that when I split the sentence on each slash (and their is a tiny quiet space between words) upon the "spaced out" playback there is this horrible pop at the begining and end of each audio clip. Is this common? Anything I can do about it?

New to editing and I figure an explanation for this one would solve alot of future problems. Thanks!
 
Never mind! I'm not sure if this is how the pros would do it....but I just got into the wave window and inserted and audio key frame over the first 1,2,or three frames and brought it all the way down. For those interested, it seems to have worked.
 
Well.....It kind of worked. On a second listen it seems to eat the end of the last word of the edit a little bit. I'd like to open this question back up if my response was deterring anybody from answering. Any ideas? Thanks!
 
i'm a professional and i use 2 frame cross fades. i also borrow parts of words to contruct more intelligble dialogue. and what i can't fix is dealt with by another professional on a mix stage.
 
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pops occur when waves begin or end at a point other than zero. zero being the center line as the wave goes up and down. crossfade will def. fix but sometimes creates an undesirable effect. you can also fix by zooming way into the waveform and dragging it out a few samples until you find a zero crossing. i don't thing you can do this in FCP but soundtrack, pro tools, or any other audio editing program will do it.
 
Awesom answers! I have sound track pro so I will check it out... I also have pro tools...but I don't really know how to do it on either.. Is it a particularly involved/time consuming process? I'm asking because I'm trying to decide if I should bother with it as I go, or trust that I can come back closer to the final product and smooth things out.
 
another thing you can do in stpro is time stretch the entire piece of dialogue a bit. if you use time stretch, it won't change the pitch of the dialogue, and if you don't overdo it, it'll sound fine.
 
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