While I was rushing to put together Corporate Assassin I was trying to find a telephone effect plugin for FCP and I couldn’t. But I did come across a great tutorial from ProMax, an Apple reseller. Here’s how you manipulate the audio…

In this Quicktip, we will look at how to achieve an audio effect where it sounds as if someone is talking through a phone or through a tiny speaker.

Below is a clip in the timeline where a flight instructor is talking on a headset to a student pilot in the seat in front of him. If you were to play this clip, it would sound very clean – almost as if it was recorded on a sound stage or something.

1. To achieve the �phone� effect, we need to apply an audio effect called a �band pass filter�. Make sure you�re your playhead is parked anywhere over the clip, then from the effects menu, choose Audio Filters>Final Cut Pro>Band Pass Filter.

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I’d love to post the entire article but I have to give credit to where it’s due. If anyone knows of some great plugins for transitions or audio filters for FCP please feel free to leave a comment where I can find it.