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Monitoring audio

Monitoring audio

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to look at how we can monitor audio inside a Final Cut Pro. So, first of all, you'll notice that we were able to preview our surround sound and stereo mix music, but we haven't actually seen the audio levels. We might have seen a glimpse of them if you take a look right here to the lower portion of the viewer. In fact, this allows us to show or hide audio meters. Let's just take a look at how the two sources that we looked at earlier in the movie. The stereo clip will appear in the audio meters. I want to play back a bit of the music by pressing the space bar. (piano instrumental music) So you can see that fluctuating left and right channel. Here is the water ocean pier clip. I'm just going to press this space bar so we can hear it. (ocean water roaring) And because I set this to six mono tracks that's only coming out as mono, but let me see what happens when I then reroute it…

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