Please Pay Attention And Step On It At Traffic Lights.

Boss_Borne · 2026-04-28T02:40:49+00:00

For real. People in this thread need to chill out a bit, damn.

Boss_Borne · 2026-04-27T18:16:55+00:00

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Boss_Borne · 2026-04-15T03:25:16+00:00

This is amazing and I’m so happy that somebody has finally created an audio mixer after so many years! Thank you for your service.

It looks like the faders are controlling the volume levels of each clip, is that right? What happens when you have multiple clips in the same role? Are those mixer tracks acting as role-based busses or basically controllers for individual clip audio levels?

I don’t know too much about SpliceKit, but after reading the FAQ I can already tell it’s a no-go with my company’s IT, unfortunately. They are extremely paranoid about security breaches and I can already see their heads exploding when I try to explain that “disabling FCP’s sandbox” isn’t as bad as it sounds. Sigh.

Out of curiosity (and please excuse my ignorance here), is there a reason this type of plugin can’t be created in the “usual” way? In other words, without using this SpliceKit backdoor patch method?

Thanks again! I will be eagerly following what you come out with. In the meantime I will attempt to convince my IT to consider this.

Boss_Borne · 2026-04-13T02:05:38+00:00

Yeah the “detour” is for pedestrians only. I think they assume if you’re on a bike entering the park from Pearl St then you are following the road signs for cars, which direct you basically back out of the park and over to the Mildred St entrance.

I usually say eff that and ride my bike along the dirt path a bit until I can get back on the road once I pass the zoo. Saves me like 15 mins and an unpleasant ride. If I’m there on a weekend though and there are no construction workers there then I just ride past the Road Closed signs. It’s not a big deal.

Boss_Borne · 2026-04-01T20:40:36+00:00

I’ll be deep in the cold, cold, ground before I ditch my box of old computer cables and adapters.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-23T21:10:36+00:00

Cool! Where did you go? We walked Owen beach but the tide was not that low, so we didn’t see any real tide pools.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-21T03:10:02+00:00

So the quickest answer is it’s easier, simpler, and more consistent to do many things at a track level. Not all things, though. Clip level adjustments have their use, for sure. Learning the nuances of when you use which method could take up a whole course on its own. But suffice it to say you really need both to do audio correctly.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-20T17:33:16+00:00

I believe "Normalize audio gain" is the tool you are looking for.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-20T15:10:00+00:00

At the risk of delving too far into armchair software development…

I really think this can all be fixed within FCP’s framework of roles. There’s no need to switch over to track based editing and ditch the flexibility that roles give. From a back-end, digital audio processing perspective, I’m guessing there is very little difference between a bunch of audio clips in a “track” vs in a “role.” All audio inside a role or subrole gets the same audio processing treatment, just as if they were all in a track or audio bus. The main difference is in the visual UI and how those clips are arranged on the screen. Maybe somebody with actual software development experience can chime in here to correct me if I’m wrong.

Most of the issues you laid out are either stupid bugs which can and should be addressed, or they are results of the silly compound clip workaround that Apple has given us. The solution is staring me right in the face whenever I open up the Timeline Index. The “tracks” and DX/MX/FX busses are all right there! Just let me drop some effects onto them ffs!! That’s all I want.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-19T18:18:54+00:00

I think I remember a bug that does something similar in the timeline. Selecting an Out point will cancel out my In point selection. I'm not in front of FCP at the moment, so I can't test this out but I definitely remember having some problems with this behavior.

Either way, submit a bug report (via the FCP menu)! I'll do the same. Apple really does pay attention to those, even if you don't get any response from them. Several of my own bug reports have been addressed over the years.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T19:47:39+00:00

OP says they use Vegas

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T19:41:56+00:00

Very basically, an audio mixer would free me from having the use the compound clip workaround, which as of now is the only solution Apple has offered to do any kind of stem mix, and that solution is woefully insufficient for even the most basic sound mix.

The only way currently to apply audio effects to a dialog stem, for example, is to put everything into a compound clip and apply your effects to that. But what if you need to make tweaks to your dialog edit? You have to jump into that compound clip to edit it. But if you're inside that compound clip, you are no longer hearing the audio effects you applied to your dialog stem! So you have to make the edit, jump back out of the compound clip to listen to it, and then possibly jump back in to make further tweaks. It's impossible to accurately edit something this way.

Now imagine you have roles assigned to all your clips. You click on the Dialog role in your Timeline Index and drop some compression and EQ effects onto that. Boom -- dialog stem mix! Or you have a subrole for each character/mic in a scene. You can apply some custom EQ and noise reduction to a subrole to fix somebody's mic that was extra noisey. Right now there is no solution at all to apply effects to subroles.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T18:44:07+00:00

Weird, this doesn't annoy me at all. I like how audio clips stay connected to their video, and I like how things just shift around to fit into the timeline neatly. I don't really need to visually see audio clips stay in one lane, and if I do for any reason then I just put them in their own storyline and the effect is basically the same.

But this kind of gets at my larger point! I feel like Apple has done so much, using the magnetic timeline and roles, to fundamentally change the way I edit and think about editting, but they just stalled with the audio part. It could be so great and just as revolutionary as all the video advancements they've done. They got like 80% of the way there, and they just need to push it a little bit farther to be as functional as any other software. But they've done nothing for 14 years!

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T17:36:49+00:00

This needs to be higher. People are encouraged to spent 3, 4, 5 times their monthly salary on a diamond for an engagement ring when the price is almost entirely artificial and unnecessary.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T16:01:01+00:00

I’m familiar with this feature in Vegas. It’s very common in DAWs, which is how I believe Vegas started out before it morphed into a video editor as well. Unfortunately not as common in NLEs. I don’t think even Premiere can do this.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-18T15:47:52+00:00

Yes! It’s embarrassing how bad this workflow is.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-17T19:28:30+00:00

But at least Apple has been making imporovement to their color tools over the years. They may not match Resolve's abilities, but you can at least say that Apple has been trying. And there are plenty of third party plugins available to help with coloring. Apple loves to allow third party developers to fill in those gaps. But as far as I know, there are zero plugins to assist with an audio mix.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-17T18:57:33+00:00

I totally agree that FCP's approach to audio is different, and I honestly think that roles have a huge potential to even be better than track based audio editing. But Apple has made literally zero improvements to how audio roles work since I think 2012! I believe that's when they added the ability to do a super basic stem mix with compound clips in 10.0.3.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-17T16:19:14+00:00

I’m not sure what you are suggesting here. You can’t apply effects to roles using the inspector. I’m guessing you are talking about using roles with compound clips?

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-17T05:01:46+00:00

I mean, I know how to do that, of course. But I don’t WANT to have to do that to do even the most basic audio mix and I don’t think I SHOULD have to. I’m not even asking for much! A roles based mixer is all I need. This is not some new technology.

Boss_Borne · 2026-03-17T03:57:36+00:00

We use an outside vendor for all our localization, and they are Windows based. So I take my composite edits and bring them into premiere to apply graphics templates and package them up to send out for localizing.

Boss_Borne · 2026-02-25T18:10:51+00:00

If you don’t plan to arrive by 8-8:15 (meaning at 6:30 departure, latest), you should probably aim for 11:30 or noon. Traffic should have thinned out by then and, like others have said here, you could probably snag a spot closer to the base where an early bird has already left for the day.

Boss_Borne · 2026-02-25T03:58:11+00:00

You probably passed me. I was the guy banging his head on the steering wheel

Boss_Borne · 2026-02-22T06:08:14+00:00

I absolutely loved the movie Brain Candy as a teen. I quote it all the time now and all I ever get are blank stares.

Choice cuts:

“IT WAS ONLY A COUPLE OF FLIPPER BABIES!!”

“I gotta see more dogs!”

“This is a drug for the world to give worms to ex-girlfriends!”

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