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  Final Cut Pro/Pro Tools sync issue

  Posted by James Morrison on November 26, 2010 at 6:29 pm

  I just edited a project on Final Cut (version 6.0.5) with footage shot on the Cannon 7D.
  The footage was converted to pro-res before being imported to final cut.
  Once the picture was locked I exported an OMF file and gave to my sound designer who used Pro Tools to do a final sound mix. The Pro Tools settings matched those of my final cut settings, which were: 23.98 fps, rate 48khz, bit 16.

  An aiff file was exported from pro tools with these settings, but when we drop it back into final cut the sync slips after about 2 minutes.
  Does anyone know of a way to fix this?

  James Morrison replied 15 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  November 26, 2010 at 8:38 pm

  Are you sure your original footage was actually 23.98 and that the ProTools editor didn’t do any speed ups?

  Noah

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  James Morrison

  November 26, 2010 at 11:57 pm

  Hey Noah,

  I double checked and ProTools editor did not do any speed ups…
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  James Morrison

  November 29, 2010 at 4:09 am

  To anyone struggling with this sync bug the solution can be found on this thread.
  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1090666#1090917

  When I encountered this problem I was running FCP 6.0.5 and my operating system was at 10.4
  Once I updated my operating system and updated FCP to 10.7 I was able to sync everything with no problem.

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