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chapter 8
Editing Audio
We think of
movies as a mainly visual medium because of their power to tell stories with pictures, but the sound
that accompanies the visuals can be just as important in getting a story's message across to an audience. This
chapter is all about the different ways that you can work with audio in the Timeline, starting off with other ways
to get sounds into your project.
Accessing the Music and Sound Browser
Chapter 3 showed you how to import audio clips into the Event Browser that are specific to the project that
you're working on. However, you have access to many other sounds from right inside Final Cut Pro; these sounds
are available via the Music and Sound Browser (see Figure 8.1). To open the Music and Sound Browser, click the
music symbol button in the Media Browser area of the Toolbar or choose Window
⇒
Media Browser
⇒
Music and
Sound. Here you'll find the Final Cut Pro Sound Effects that are available with the program, the iLife Sound Ef-
fects (if the iLife suite is installed on your Mac), and your entire iTunes Library, including any playlists that you
may have created.
Figure 8.1
The Music and Sound Browser.
Final Cut Pro comes with a bounty of sound effects, which are organized into categories, such as Ambience, Fo-
ley, Sci-Fi, and more. Clicking a folder reveals its contents in the pane below; you can choose to display these
contents as a list or as icons by Control-clicking on a file and choosing Display as List or Display as Icons from
