Our good friends at Audio Design Desk have announced the immediate availability of Audio Bridge – a native extension for Final Cut Pro that enables editors to easily create transitions, titles, foley, and music cues within the Final Cut timeline. We have the details…

What Is Audio Design Desk?

Audio Design Desk is a next generation Digital Audio Workstation which has been used on programs for Netflix, HBOMax, Hulu and more. It comes with over 45,000 royalty-free sounds, loops and music cues, which are all embedded with Sonic Intelligence and an embedded sync marker so each sound knows where it is meant to sync to video. Now editors can create sound for their videos in real time. And, for the first time, editors can create soundscapes for their projects without leaving their Final Cut Pro timeline. 

Here’s the full details from the press release…

ADD Audio Bridge Keeps Editors in the Flow

Audio Design Desk’s native extension for Final Cut Pro, ADD Audio Bridge is a tight integration that enables editors to stay inside their creative flow, for better, higher quality work, done in a fraction of the time. The extension connects 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 program to another.

ADD heavily utilizes 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, scrub, frame through and volume and pan. There’s even a mini timeline display so editors can visually identify what’s in the Audio Design Desk timeline. Best of all, you can use Audio Design Desk to connect virtually any DAW to Final Cut Pro so Pro Tools and Logic Pro can now sync and control FCP’s timeline as well.

Audio Bridge is available now in Audio Design Desk - open Final Cut Pro X and you will notice the ADD icon in the upper left of the FCPX window. If you have multiple extensions installed, you will see the ADD icon in an extensions pulldown.

Not already a user? Audio Design Desk is available for Mac only on paid monthly or yearly plans, or as perpetual licenses. Head over to the website to try it for free.

If you’re at this year’s NAB show in Las Vegas, visit Audio Design Desk at booth C9818 in Central Hall for a live demonstration and to meet the team.