Working with stereo audio can be a difficult task. The amount of trust you place in your ears can leave your head spinning. Luckily Magnetic Stereo brings an easy to read visual component to stereo audio. In this quick tutorial, we show you how to visually see your unbalanced stereo channels and how to balance them with both manual and automatic controls.
Using Magnetic Stereo in Final Cut Pro X
If you ever edit video that was shot with a stereo mic (like the Rode iXY, Rode Stereo Videomic, Stereo Videomic X, the Zoom iQ6, or Zoom H4N field recorder), then you may run into a common problem: interviews that have unbalanced stereo channels. Magnetic Stereo, a plugin for Final Cut Pro X, fixes this problem by balancing your stereo automatically. Here’s a quick intro video that describes Magnetic Audio and its main features.