Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 871)

84 Part I Media and Project Management
To change the overall audio level of a clip using a fader:
1 Make sure the clip doesn’t have any level keyframes already applied.
2 Make sure that the Record Audio Keyframes button in the button bar at the top of the
Audio Mixer is not selected.
3 In the Timeline, position the playhead so that it’s directly over the clip whose audio
level you want to change.
Adjusting Levels in Mono Versus Stereo Clips
Track faders in the Audio Mixer control each audio clip independently unless two
clips are a stereo pair:
 Dual mono clips: Track faders can be adjusted independently. For example, if
you’ve captured a clip that has two actors whose dialogue was recorded
independently, one on the left channel and one on the right channel, you can
control their levels separately.
 Stereo pair clips: The faders of both audio tracks are locked together and move as
one. This is useful for stereo music clips, to ensure that level changes are consistent
in both the left and right audio channels.