Final Cut Pro - Adding Audio and the crossfade effect

An effect that is usually needed within a stop motion is audio, in this case music. Music can be put into a stop motion to create a certain atmosphere, it could be humour or something more sinister.

 The music can be from your ipod or CD's, this allows you to add your own personality to a video if the same one is being used by someone else.

To add music it is just the same as adding the images, you find the song that you want, highlight it then drag it onto the final cut program. Once it has appeared on the sidebar drag it into the time and it should appear their.

The audio itself should appear in the line marked 'A' standing for audio. If it doesn't appear in here then the audio will not work and it could ruin your stop motion piece.

In some cases in stop motion you want to add effects to the music to make it louder or quieter, for me i needed to make the music quieter so another sound effect can be heard. The effect that i would need to use would be crossfade, this will allow me to make the music quieter.

To add crossfade to a piece of audio you first have to select the part that you want to go quieter:

 

Right click the highlighted area and options should pop up on the screen, the option that is need is transition 'crossfade' or in this case 'cross dissolve'.

This will then make the audio quieter at the point you have chosen.