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lip sync is slightly out of sync with the picture, select an audio clip in the Timeline and use the keyboard's
comma and period keys to nudge the audio back and forth until the sync is perfect.
Figure 13.2
The two ADR files added to the Timeline.
The next clip in the sequence (Scene 17 Slate 32 Take 1) is a cutaway shot of Jason's photo that includes Katie's
line “What happened to him?” Katie's dialogue is taken from the following clip (Scene 17 Slate 31 Take 2),
which has quite a lot of background noise on it. We can replace the line with ADR using the same procedure.
Because the line is spoken off-screen, this will be easier to do because there is no lip sync to match.
1.
Open the Timeline's Clip Appearance panel and select the third button so that you can see both video and
audio for the clips in the Timeline.
2.
Select Scene 17 Slate 31 Take 2 in the Timeline and press Control+S to expand the clip. As you can see,
the audio of Scene 17 Slate 31 Take 2 runs across the preceding clip (Scene 17 Slate 32 Take 1).
3.
Press N to activate snapping (if it isn't already active). Select the audio In point of Scene 17 Slate 31
Take 2 and drag it 3 seconds to the right until it snaps with the start of Scene 17 Slate 31 Take 2.
4.
Select the Ellie Darcey-Alden (Katie) Collection in the Event Library and drag the “What happened to
him?” audio clip on to the Timeline so that it connects below Scene 17 Slate 32 Take 1. The clip displays a
green connection link to indicate where its placement will be on the Primary Storyline. Because there's no
lip sync to match, move the audio anywhere below Scene 17 Slate 32 Take 1 that sounds right to you.
Cleaning Up the Audio
By replacing Katie's line “What happened to him?” with cleanly recorded ADR, we've removed all the back-
ground noise that plagued the original recording. However, this noise returns as soon as the sequence cuts back
to Scene 17 Slate 31 Take 2 in the Timeline. The bad news is that we haven't recorded any ADR for this section
of the scene. The only option we have is to try to clean up as much of the original recording as we can using
Final Cut Pro's plug-ins. We've already looked at these plug-ins back in Chapter 8, but now it's time to put
them to use in our project. We recommend that you use a pair of good quality headphones for the following ex-
ercise.
