Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1004)

Each take is shot from a slightly different angle, and there’s one visual take that you like
more than the others, even though the dialogue in it isn’t that great. In another take, the
actor said the word “wow” really well. A third take has the best version of the line “That’s
a big piece of pie!” If the actor was good and the pacing of each of these takes is roughly
the same, it’s fairly easy to combine all three clips into one good take.
Be careful when combining dialogue from different takes
People use different intonations as they speak a sentence, and it’s important to listen for
this. Sometimes, you’ll be unable to combine two sentences because they don’t sound
right together.
For example, suppose you have two clips of someone talking. In one clip the actor says,
“I’m going to throw that suitcase out the window!” In a second clip, he says, “Should I
put the box in the closet?” You want to cut from the actor to a shot of the closet when
he says “that suitcase” so you can combine the line “I’m going to throw that suitcase”
with “in the closet.” Unfortunately, the second sentence is a question, so the two pieces
of dialogue don’t really sound right together. Because the difference is jarring, you’ll have
to try something else.
Edit in sound to handle a loud background noise at an edit point
If you’re cutting from one clip to another, but there’s a loud sound right at the edit point,
such as a car or a plane passing, you can edit in sound to mask the cut. You won’t be able
to eliminate the noise, but if you take another car or plane sound effect that sounds
similar to the noise at your edit point, you can edit in just enough of the sound effect in
an adjacent audio track to complete the noise of the car or plane passing that was cut
off by your edit. You’ll need to play with the levels, mixing up the sound effect prior to
the edit point and mixing it down afterward, but you’ll be able to mask the cut so that it
sounds completely natural.
Swap onscreen sound effects with new ones using a replace edit
If you want to replace the sound of a door slamming in your source audio track with a
more dramatic door-slam sound effect, you can easily and quickly line up the new sound
effect waveform with the old one by doing a replace edit, so that the new sound is
perfectly in sync. For more information, see
“Three-Point Editing.”
Tips for Cutting Music
Here are some tips for editing music in your project.
1004 Chapter 61 Tips for Better Audio