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I love this hack, i use it all tone time when there is background noise, but it sometimes makes my voice sound bubbly, or I’m underwater. Great video, keep it up 👍
I have the same popping problem when I use RX (de-reverb and spectral de-noise) as an on-the-fly plugin in FCP. Same problem- small cross fades don’t always solve it. Really helpful alternative tips from you here (as ever). Glad I popped in! (Boom boom)
I love this new feature. Listening to your video with the iPhone speakers I thought the audio from the built-in camera at 100% actually was best! I believe this feature really makes a difference for people who listen with their phones tiny speakers compared to headphones or large speakers. Great comparisons!
I don't know if this has been brought up, but you can assign your audio clips to a roles. Then picking specific related audio is a lot easier. Thanks for all your videos.
Final Cut has auto-fader now! Select all of the audio, Option + T will take care of those pops, might still need to play with it---but pretty good for only a couple clicks!
You're great it's just the video that was needed! if you have time, make one on the j cut and l cut for final cut, i'll be the first viewer! Thanks again!
@@tombuck ya I was going to make a video about it because just an amazing tool. I was able to remove landscapers from the background of a client video that were using blowers! It’s just crazy good.
What happens if you: 1. Throw all your A roll on a timeline 2. Select all and make a compound clip 3. Apply Voice Isolation 4. Create ANOTHER compound clip 5. and then edit that final one? Curious if you have experience with this. Usually I use the two-compound clip method for myself to make it easy to adjust audio and video effects across all my a roll clips. I throw everything in my timeline and then make a compound clip called “Adjustments.” I apply all my audio and video adjustments to that compound clip. Then I make a SECOND compound clip called “Edit this one” which is what I use to actually cut and edit the a roll together. This makes it so I can tweak the audio or video effects at any time, and they apply across all my cuts. I may try this tomorrow and report back! Either way, thank you for an excellent tutorial!
I've never done this myself, to be honest, so I don't know exactly how it would work. It sounds like you've developed your own way of creating adjustment layers in FCP, which is pretty darn awesome. 😎
I’ve been using this feature on a few videos recently, and it’s a game changer. I used it on some video of talent outside, with traffic noise in the background. The Voice Isolation slider just removed it all. It was pretty shocking how effective it was.
Ah, I finally got to finish this video. Yes, I apply VI at the end - what I normally do is compound my voice audio into it’s own track, then apply it. I’d normally be working with audio track view at that stage.
I need to remember that you will inevitably say the thing that I do, and that it’s silly of me to try and have a back and forth dialog with a video. Especially before it’s over.
Hey Tom, great video. I didn’t know about the pop issue but that could be because I generally use compound clips at the end of an edit apply any effect i want to any particular stream of audio including the voice isolation to the dialogue role without the need to detach all the dialogue. And if there’s clips with talking in different locations etc I use dialogue subroles to split those out. Either way the principle is the same. Thanks again for another great to trial video.
As always, the explanations are great. You only explained the Voice Isolation applied to studio quality sounds. I have found Voice Isolation to be very useful in improving poor or less desirable audio recorded in an uncontrolled environment. Wind noise, machinery etc are reduced or eliminated making the voice more useable. Not perfect but useable.
This is a welcomed featured for podcast episodes, especially when I am editing a guest's video/audio feed. I would probably also use it on my feed until I sound treat my new office studio.
@@tombuck I might just revisit my last podcast episode that I didn't get to launch over the weekend and apply it to my guest's audio ;) Thanks for this video Tom!
LOVE the video editing videos. I don't know if you've ever messed around with Davinci Resolve, but it would be cool to see some vides using that software. Maybe even some comparisons to Final Cut? Just a thought.
Much easier to just add in the VI as your last step before exporting. No pops or clicks then. Audio is the last step in my workflow, so I haven't experienced this problem myself.
I'll have to try this while I'm editing the latest client video. It's been recorded in a big hall and despite using a lav there's a lot of "reverb". Will apply these tips, thank youuuuuu!
You can also use the timeline index in Final Cut Pro to select all the videos from your fx30 in the Final Cut Pro timeline and it highlights everything and then detach the audio that way. Much easier and saves a lot of time. You can use this to multi select effects or pretty much anything in your Final Cut Pro timeline before creating a compound clip. Learned this from a fellow creator called Mathew O’Brien
The trick is to extend the clips that are meeting up by about a few seconds and then manually create volume point after of course detaching all your audio separately from the video clips and then do a manual fade in and fade out of each respective clip - that way the voice isolation plugin has time to process the fade in and fade out reading and does not create the click and pop. This happens because of audio buffer issue - but by manually giving each clip more breathing space - the issue is resolved. Hopefully FCPX will fix this soon.
For me, I've done this and still have the popping issue. It almost seems like it's how FCP handles the Voice Isolation when a clip ends, regardless of whether or not it overlaps something else 🤷🏻♂️
Thing is though, when you boost the low frequencies, you will most likely also accentuate reverbs, room noises and the likes. Ah! If only voice recording booth were cheaper!
Of course, the dilemma is when the client comes back with some edit changes after you've done all that. You can't reattach the detached audio. You could uncompound your audio and the compound with the video but now you're getting into lots of steps and complexity.
@@tombuck ha this video could have been a tweet :P seriously though, thank you for making such useful videos! Always enjoy watching, and enjoy your podcasts too! I’m getting my first XLR microphone tomorrow and I’m quite excited! Also, I meant use compound clips in an easier way, literally just make the main video clip a compound clip, then back straight out and edit as normal and apply all the filters etc as normal and it fixed it. No need to even open the compound clip
For me, the much bigger problem is that I can't click on the voice isolation on my m1 pro macbook. I read somewhere that this could be related to mono and stereo tracks, but with most videos nothing happens at all. I simply can't click on it.
Yes, mono and stereo tracks can change the available settings. Sometimes you can right click on them, turn them into a compound clip, and then apply the isolation to that.
hey!! thank you so much for the video. I was wondering if it's possible to do like a reverse voice isolation? i was in a concert and in one of the clips there's an audience talking in the middle of the song and i want to remove the talking voice. when i set the isolation amount to 100% it actually did really good (only the person talking, no music at all lol) and i want to reverse that to save the music but remove the talking. wondering if you know how!! i hope it makes sense, thank you so much in advance!!
Hmm, this is a tough one. I don't have a surefire solution, but you might want to go into the Equalizer (maybe even the 30 band EQ) and see if you can turn down the frequencies of the voice while keeping the crowd. If their frequencies overlap, it probably won't work, but if they're different enough, it could get the job done.
@@tombuck Thank you!!! I tried and it helped reduce it! It did overlap a lot especially because there were live instruments but I'm glad I learned the technique at least! Thanks for sharing!
Sometimes it depends on the specific audio file. Try right-clicking on the audio and creating a Compound Clip- you should be able to add Voice Isolation to the new compound clip.
I've definitely been known to make audio mistakes, but I think I watched this video at least a dozen times while editing and before uploading and didn't notice any crackles.
