{"id":2839,"date":"2011-08-10T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2012-05-21T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:42:46","slug":"video-tutorial-how-to-audition-clips-in-final-cut-pro-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/video-tutorial-how-to-audition-clips-in-final-cut-pro-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Tutorial: How to Audition Clips in Final Cut Pro X"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"audition-your-clips-to-quickly-try-out-multiple-shot-scenarios\">Audition your clips to quickly try out multiple shot scenarios!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Final Cut Pro X&#8217;s new Audition feature<\/strong> allows you to easily try out multiple clips while you&#8217;re deciding on how you&#8217;d like to execute the edit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to see how different shots look in the context of your storyline, without needing to physically go through the process of editing each shot into the sequence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27529467?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"this-final-cut-pro-x-video-tutorial-will-teach-you-how-to\">This Final Cut Pro X video tutorial will teach you how to:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Add multiple clips to an <strong>Audition<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Switch from one clip to another within an <strong>Audition<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Duplicate clips and apply effects within an <strong>Audition<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Finalize an <strong>Audition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Full Video Transcription<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Ashley: Hello. This is Ashley Kennedy with PremiumBeat.com, here to show\u00a0you how to <strong>audition<\/strong> clips in <strong>Final Cut Pro X<\/strong>. <strong>Auditioning<\/strong> is a way for you\u00a0to try multiple clips in your sequence, without committing to one until\u00a0you&#8217;ve seen how everything works. OK. I have a sequence here, and I&#8217;m not\u00a0quite sure about the second shot. I&#8217;m going to go ahead and play through it\u00a0here. All right. This shot here of her walking by this fountain, I&#8217;d like\u00a0to try a couple of more shots in there, but I don&#8217;t necessarily want to\u00a0edit it in, take it out, edit another shot in, take it out. Let&#8217;s go ahead\u00a0and audition. This is that shot. There&#8217;s a couple more that are similar.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close-up, and an even closer shot here. Let&#8217;s try these out\u00a0instead. What I&#8217;m going to do is mark an in and an out point. 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We&#8217;re going to go ahead and open the <strong>audition<\/strong> now. I\u00a0do that by clicking on my little audition icon. You can see that we have\u00a0all of our clips loaded up here. Now, take a look. We have the name of the\u00a0clip, and also the duration. I can either click on each one of these\u00a0physically, or I can just use my left and right arrow keys to go back and\u00a0forth between these shots. Now, notice that if I&#8217;m in my primary story\u00a0line, which I am, the length of the clip will lengthen and shorten as I add\u00a0each one of these, which happen to be different durations. OK? So I&#8217;m just\u00a0sort of going through, and if I want to try something out, I can hit\u00a0&#8220;done.&#8221; We&#8217;ll go ahead and play this. My audio is just a little loud, so\u00a0we&#8217;ll bring that down. We haven&#8217;t committed to it yet. If we want to come\u00a0back and audition something else, we certainly can. We&#8217;ll do the medium\u00a0shot here. 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Make sure to check back\u00a0often on PremiumBeat.com, to see more exciting tutorials in both Avid and\u00a0<strong>Final Cut Pro<\/strong>. This is Ashley Kennedy with PremiumBeat.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Cut Pro X&#8217;s new Audition feature allows you to easily try out multiple clips while you&#8217;re deciding on how you&#8217;d like to execute the edit. 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