Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 920)

Keyboard Shortcuts for Changing Audio Keyframes
Final Cut Pro provides commands for changing the gain of audio keyframes. These
commands are not assigned as menu items. You can assign these commands to keys on
the keyboard using the standard procedures for customizing your keyboard layout. These
commands are also available as buttons that you can place in your button bar. The
commands increase or decrease the audio level of a keyframe or keyframe segment under
the playhead position in the Timeline or the Viewer. The commands are:
• Gain (Adjust) -1dB
• Gain (Adjust) -3dB
• Gain (Adjust) +1dB
• Gain (Adjust) +3dB
Placing these buttons in the button bar provides a convenient method for adjusting
keyframes precisely.
Note: When adjusting a keyframe with the Gain Adjust commands, you can position the
playhead on a keyframe to change its level, or position the playhead between two
keyframes to change the audio level of the segment between the keyframes. When using
the Pen tool to add keyframes, you can create highly accurate keyframes located between
frame boundaries. At some zoom levels, when keyframes appear closely spaced, it can
appear that the playhead is on an audio keyframe when it is actually between keyframes.
In this case, the Gain Adjust commands move the segment of the overlay between the
keyframes, instead of just the single keyframe that the playhead appears to be on. Change
the zoom level of the Timeline or Viewer to better see the location of the playhead on
keyframes.
To adjust a section of a clip’s overlay in the middle of four keyframes
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Drag just that section up or down, as if you were dragging the entire overlay.
920 Chapter 57 Mixing Audio in the Timeline and Viewer