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my audio and video wont work together in the FCP timeline, help!!!!!
For some reason my audio and video wont work together in the timeline. They work fine seperately, but when ever they appear together the audio cuts out every no and then, the audio meter is registering the sound but it cant be heard. I opened the quicktime in the capture scratch folder and everything is dandy, this problem only happens when its in the timeline. Is it a capture problem? a sequence problem? any help would be appreciated.
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What’s the kHz of the audio files? Are they sound sync from DV or?
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Questions like this are posted very frequently. And many (most?) of the problems are solved by a simple procedure.
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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