Commentary track...need help

Hi Gang.
I need to do something that, no doubt, is much simpler than the ways I've imagined it might be accomplished.
I have a one minute video. I need to record a commentary for this video. During the commentary I'll need the video to freeze at certain points, or roll it back, etc.
I know there is a voice over tool in FCP, but I don't think it will work for this.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Im assuming you have a script already written and it comes in under the 1 min duration of the video?
There is probably quite a few ways of going about it really, comes down to user preference. I would personally lay the video down on the timeline and play through it a few times placing markers along the way to highlight various key points including the poster frames if needs be. I would have the same marker numbers along with a time reference e.g 10 seconds in etc, on the script so that I would know where I should be when working with the voice over tool.
select the full sequence, use the voice over tool and the script until it was roughly about right.
Then blade it up using markers etc if needs be to get it bang on, add a few cross fades so the audio isn't ON or OFF and then job done.

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