Answers.Body: <p>There are 2 methods that might help with this.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Press the I and O keys to mark a range around the audio you want to fix. Then press CTRL+OPT+L and type a number value for the amount you want to the audio to drop (eg:-60db)</li>
  <li>Make your keyframes, select them, then OPT+SHIFt+C to copy them, then OPT+SHIFT+V to paste them where you need them.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Method 1 is probably more flexible as you can customise the range if need be.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/8jwck.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/8jwck.png" alt="Method 1"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/xo0Qh.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/xo0Qh.png" alt="Method 2"></a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks, it's much faster to make the keyframes with in-out points and then adjust the curve/handles manually than to do all of them with ALT+K.
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Body: <p>I'm editing audio in Final Cut Pro X; I have exported the audio from Davinci Resolve because FCPX has a variety of equalizers and noise reduction built-in.</p>
  
  <p>In this audio, I am talking but I occasionally smack my lips together and make other unpleasant sounds.  So, I am trying to remove them as fast as possible.</p>
  
  <p>I realize that there is no good way to automatically identify them, so I am listening to the track and, when I hear an unneeded sound, making four keyframes using <code>ALT+K</code> as shown in the photo:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/dZEjc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/dZEjc.png" alt="audiokeyframes"></a></p>
  
  <p>This isn't too difficult to do but it is a little inconsistent for the following reasons:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>After I make the four keyframes with the keyboard shortcut, I have to select the middle two keyframes to pull the audio down with the mouse, and making this selection is tricky sometimes even with the timeline zoomed in.</li>
  <li>When I pull down the audio, it's usually about -30 db, but it's hard to precisely line up; when I do this several times per file, I am unlikely to make them all exactly the same.  This probably isn't a big deal but it is inconsistent.</li>
  <li>There's no way (I can tell) to copy-and-paste sets of keyframes.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there a faster way to do this, or is what I'm doing about as good as it gets?</p>
  
Tags: <audio><final-cut-pro-x>
Title: How to quickly remove unnecessary sounds in FCPX?
UserDisplayName: Patrick Kenny
ThreadText: # How to quickly remove unnecessary sounds in FCPX?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-01)
  
  I'm editing audio in Final Cut Pro X; I have exported the audio from Davinci Resolve because FCPX has a variety of equalizers and noise reduction built-in.
  
  In this audio, I am talking but I occasionally smack my lips together and make other unpleasant sounds. So, I am trying to remove them as fast as possible.
  
  I realize that there is no good way to automatically identify them, so I am listening to the track and, when I hear an unneeded sound, making four keyframes using `ALT+K` as shown in the photo:
  
  [![audiokeyframes](https://i.sstatic.net/dZEjc.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/dZEjc.png)
  
  This isn't too difficult to do but it is a little inconsistent for the following reasons:
  
  * After I make the four keyframes with the keyboard shortcut, I have to select the middle two keyframes to pull the audio down with the mouse, and making this selection is tricky sometimes even with the timeline zoomed in.
  * When I pull down the audio, it's usually about -30 db, but it's hard to precisely line up; when I do this several times per file, I am unlikely to make them all exactly the same. This probably isn't a big deal but it is inconsistent.
  * There's no way (I can tell) to copy-and-paste sets of keyframes.
  
  Is there a faster way to do this, or is what I'm doing about as good as it gets?
  
  **Tags:** audio, final-cut-pro-x
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-03-01. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  There are 2 methods that might help with this.
  
  1. Press the I and O keys to mark a range around the audio you want to fix. Then press CTRL+OPT+L and type a number value for the amount you want to the audio to drop (eg:-60db)
  2. Make your keyframes, select them, then OPT+SHIFt+C to copy them, then OPT+SHIFT+V to paste them where you need them.
  
  Method 1 is probably more flexible as you can customise the range if need be.
  
  [![Method 1](https://i.sstatic.net/8jwck.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/8jwck.png)
  
  [![Method 2](https://i.sstatic.net/xo0Qh.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/xo0Qh.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks, it's much faster to make the keyframes with in-out points and then adjust the curve/handles manually than to do all of them with ALT+K.  
  
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