Adjustment Elements

Adjustment Elements

Adjustment Elements Alter the audio and video output of story elements by using adjustment elements.

Overview

You can apply adjustment to change specific aspects of audio and video, in particular:

  • Audio adjustments, such as audio volume and panning, loudness control, and EQ.
  • Video adjustments, including geometrical video transformations, such as position, scale, rotation, crop, pan and zoom, blend mode, and size conforming.
  • 360 adjustments, such as where to place a non-360 clip in a 360 project, the viewable portion of a 360 clip in a non-360 project, and the default orientation of a 360 clip in a 360 project using the 360 adjustment elements.

Note Starting in FCPXML 1.3, there is support for color adjustments, audio adjustment, and video adjustments.

Each adjustment element has attributes that affect the audio or video adjustments you want to make. Specify the values to override; all other values remain at their default settings. Create animated adjustments by varying attribute values over time. For information on how to adjust attribute values over time, see Animation.

Some adjustment attributes expect a multidimensional (or compound) value, such as an (x,y) point. Specify these attributes with a space separating each value. For example, specify the two-dimensional values (0,0) or (10,-25) as “0 0” or “10 -25”.

Note Final Cut Pro applies audio adjustments to the entire multicam clip (specified by the mc-clip element), whereas Final Cut Pro applies visual adjustments to each angle (specified by the mc-source element). In FCPXML 1.3 and earlier, Final Cut Pro applies both visual adjustments and audio adjustments to the entire multicam clip (on to the mc-clip element).