User`s guide

Working with Audio Effects
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To view the current frame in the external monitor:
1. Do one of the following:
• Click the Display Frame on Monitor button in the upper-right corner of the Composite
window.
• Select Preview > Display Frame to Monitor.
The image displays on the external monitor using the Resolution and Quality settings
specified in the Composite window.
To preview in high quality video to an external monitor:
• Select Preview > Display HQ Frame to Monitor.
Working with Audio Effects
After importing audio files to Avid FX, you can synchronize your effects with the audio,
fine-tune the audio properties by adjusting its values, and animate the volume and balance to
create interesting audio effects. Always scrub through the audio to enable easier reference
and synchronization during effect animation design. You can adjust from the Preferences
window the number of incoming and outgoing frames you hear when you scrub. See “Tools
Tab” on page 160.
Avid FX supports the audio file formats supported by the latest QuickTime, including MP3
files.
Creating an Audio Track on the Timeline
Creating an audio track is similar to importing an audio file.
To create an audio track:
1. Right-click an empty are in the timeline and select New Audio Track.
2. In the window that appears, navigate to the location of the file.
A new audio track is created on the timeline. It is pushed to the top of the timeline. To
reorder the tracks, see “Reordering Tracks on the Timeline” on page 42.
3. Set the sound file properties:
• Start time of the file in frames. You can also drag the track within the timeline to the
appropriate frame.
• Clip Head and Clip Tail to set the number of frames to clip at the head and tail of the
audio track respectively
• Duration of the audio clip.