AUDIO DUCKING - Reducing music volume in Final Cut Pro so you can hear talking 

This was very helpful, thank you for sharing! I have always done it the first way you showed, cutting, fading, etc. This method you demonstrated is much smoother, thank you!

Better way is to export to logic and use side chain to frequencies, so there is music left on a frequencies where voice is absent, maintaining the volume. I thought you’re going to tell how to use that in FCPX, honestly. It’s pain in the ass to manually decrease music volume for long videos, films, etc.

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Thanks for this. I was just trying to figure out if one could properly duck in FCPX similar to logic. Saved me a pile of time.

@@aaronbazil I’m going to nitpick on calling it ducking. While it accomplishes the same end result, it is mixing, not ducking, and to understand why you need to know the history, as well as the analog roots which have been the foundation for how DAWs are laid out. All of it predates DAWs. The history of the sidechain input and ducking goes back to the 1930's when audio engineers in the film industry needed to tame sibilance from an actor's dialogue. They were able to do this by multing the dialogue signal, EQing the multed signal to accentuate the esses with a bandpass filter (sibilance frequencies vary for male vs. female voices), and then using that EQed signal to trigger the compressor's detector circuit (which is known as a side chain input, in most compressors the detector circuit is normalized to the audio input, the side chain input bypasses that signal path allowing an alternative source to trigger the actual compression). This allowed them to "duck" the signal whenever a sibilant 's' was present in the dialogue. It's also worth noting that mix automation didn't exist in 1930 (the first automation systems were VCA-based and showed up in the 70's but VCAs degraded the signal quality so Neve came up with NECAM which had a motor that physically moved the actual fader itself thus getting around the signal degradation issue). Ducking quickly became adopted in the broadcast industry. The music mix would go through a compressor, and it was triggered via the side chain input by the DJ's voice. This allowed the DJ to talk over a track without having to ride a fader. What differentiates mixing and ducking is that mixing (at least in this example where the "fader" is being automated) is *timecode based* and ducking is *audio based*. The mix level depends upon specific fader moves recorded in a database at a specific timecode stamp. That is how automated mixing works (I used to be a software engineer for a major console manufacturer). Ducking by contrast responds in realtime to whatever the audio stream is doing. It works independently of the timecode (timecode doesn't even need to be present). This is advantageous in this particular application where you want dialogue to duck an audio track because you don't have to worry about the integrity of the automation database and a ducker takes about 10 seconds to setup vs. what FCPX requires due to their lack of a ducker which requires a lot of manual labor.

This might be a viable solution. There’s a video in the link that explains everything. This is not a free tool BUT, if you do a lot of editing that requires ducking and you don’t want to do the Logic Pro workaround, this may be a time-saver. www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2018/7/21/if-you-want-to-auto-duck-audio-fast-in-final-cut-pro-x-now-its-possible-using-this-great-new-plug-in?format=amp

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yeah I really wish FCPX had this feature too, I believe there are a few plugins which offer this via side chaining but on looking last they all seemed a bit clunky to me. fingers crossed Apple add this in a future update 🙏👍😎

Very strange FCPX has no ducking feature, as I remember even the iMovie had this many years ago.

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Hi Martin, you’ll need to nest multiple clips into a compound clip for that to work 👍🙏😎