Using the j, k, and l keys to hear subtle details, Turning off the audio scrubbing sounds, About setting edit points for audio – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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Chapter 31
Audio Editing Basics
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Using the J, K, and L Keys to Hear Subtle Details
When an audio clip is displayed in the Viewer, you hear a fragmented version of the
sound as you drag the playhead (or scrub through the clip). You can drag the playhead
in the ruler above the waveform in the Viewer or in the waveform display area to scrub
through the clip. This can be extremely useful for quickly navigating through a clip, but
will probably not be very helpful for making detailed audio edits.
To hear audio more clearly as you move through it at different speeds, use the J, K, and
L keys to play your clip in the Viewer. Unlike the scrubber bar, which skips samples to
give the illusion of faster playback at the cost of stuttery-sounding audio, the J, K, and L
keys actually shift the pitch of the audio you’re playing back, enabling you to hear all
the subtle details of the audio at various speeds, both slower and faster than real time.
To learn more about using the J, K, and L keys for scrubbing, see “
Timecode in the Viewer and Canvas
Turning Off the Audio Scrubbing Sounds
As you’re editing audio, you may find the sound of scrubbing through audio distracting
when you move the playhead from one location to another. You can turn off audio
scrubbing in the Viewer so that you don’t hear any sound as you scrub through a clip.
Note: This control affects audio scrubbing in the Canvas and Timeline, as well as in
the Viewer.
To turn audio scrubbing off, do one of the following:
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Choose View > Audio Scrubbing, so that there’s no checkmark next to it.
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Press Shift-S.
About Setting Edit Points for Audio
You set edit points in the audio tabs of the Viewer in the same way that you set edit
points in the Viewer’s Video tab. Whether your clips have been opened from the
Browser in preparation for editing into a sequence, or opened from a sequence in the
Timeline for trimming, edit points work the same way.
Sometimes you want to set the In and Out points of your audio at different spots from
those of your video, such as when you cut away from a visual of someone talking to
show something else while the talking voice continues on the audio track. This is called
a split edit (for more information, see Chapter 30, “