Deleting Audio Segments in FCE

Question

I am looking to delete a few ahhhhhs and ummmmmmms in a recent FCE project.
This is pretty easy to do in something like Audacity where you just highlight part of the waveform you want removed and delete it.
How do I do this in FCE? It seems like basic audio editing but perhaps I am missing something.
Thanks!
Doug

Answer 1

Hi Doug,
No problem. Here goes:
*1. Open the audio clip into the viewer by double-clicking it from the timeline.*
*2. Zoom in until you can comfortably see the first portion of the audio waveform that you would like to delete.*
*3. You will notice the pink line across the waveform. This shows the level of the audio as time goes on. What we want to do here is to reduce the level to zero for the short period you want to remove, then bring it back up to full afterward. And to make this short adjustment, we need to keyframe the audio line.*
*4. To keyframe the line, click P to select the Pen tool.*
*5. With the Pen tool selected, click once on the pink line over the part where you would like the audio fade-out to begin.*
*6. Now, click once on the pink line where you would like the fade-out to end (the beginning of the "ahh" or "umm") and drag the line down to the bottom.*
*7. Now do this in reverse order for the end of the part you want to remove. Click once to make a keyframe at the end of the "ahh"*
*8. Click once more a tiny bit to the right, and drag upward so that the keyframe returns the pink line to its normal level.*
The final result in the viewer should look something like this:
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3717368145e90318f0d4m.jpg!
If any part of the process was unclear, feel free to ask any follow-ups.
Hope this helped,
Sasha
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