Audio Design Desk has announced ADD Audio Bridge and DAW Bridge – ADD Audio Bridge is a native extension for Final Cut Pro that enables editors to quickly and easily create transitions, titles, Foley and music cues without leaving the Final Cut Pro timeline, while DAW Bridge syncs any DAW to Final Cut Pro allowing editors to use Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and all other popular DAWs.
‘Audio Design Desk is the only DAW built to create audio for video – and now we’ve got two new tools that empower editors to find, place and mix sound – without leaving the Final Cut timeline.’ says co-founder and CEO of Audio Design Desk, Gabe Cowan. ‘This is the first time that a video editor has had full DAW integration.
‘Creating complete soundscapes in Audio Design Desk without leaving Final Cut Pro allows editors to stay in their creative flow and replaces the chore of hunting for audio with the joy of discovering sound.’
Audio Design Desk comes with more than 45,000 royalty-free sounds, loops and music cues, which are all embedded with Sonic Intelligence and carry a unique sync marker so each sound knows where it is meant to sync to video.
ADD Audio Bridge is a tight integration that enables editors to stay inside their creative flow, to produce better, higher quality work, in a fraction of the time. The extension syncs the Audio Design Desk and Final Cut Pro timelines and allows for instant data exchange of audio, video, session and marker data, frame rate and time code from one programme to another. ADD heavily uses Final Cut Pro’s ‘audio roles’ so when footsteps or Foley are exchanged from ADD to FCP, Final Cut is able to identify the types of sounds and their connection points with video.
Editors can control many of Audio Design Desks functions from the extension itself, such as real time triggers, selection and replacement of sounds, searching for sounds, creating in and out points and loops, scrubbing and framing through the timeline, and volume and pan of regions. A mini timeline display enables editors to visually identify what’s in the Audio Design Desk timeline from the extension. Additionally, Audio Design Desk can be used to to virtually connect any DAW to Final Cut Pro – so Pro Tools and Logic Pro can now sync and control FCP’s timeline as well.
DAW Bridge merges the most powerful audio tools with Final Cut Pro so that editors can mix, master, compose and deliver from virtually any DAW without leaving the Final Cut Pro timeline. By syncing the audio and video editing timelines, The DAW Bridge makes it feel as if the applications are one and the same.
‘One of the biggest pain points video editors have is that there is currently no mixing board in Final Cut Pro, nor the ability to add fades, aux channels, instruments, or anything else that a DAW can offer,’ Cowan explains. ‘DAW Bridge allows all professional Digital Audio Workstations to work in sync with Final Cut Pro. This makes separate programs work as one entity, so creatives can now clean up production sound, score entire projects, add music cues, mix, and deliver without ever leaving their video editor. It’s super cool.’
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