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STP-FCP don’t sing in harmony
I had a stereo pair, which was actually two tracks panned center (0), and exported a Quicktime movie of it to Soundtrack Pro, did the STP magic on it, saved it with a new filename, and reimported it to FCP. When I look at the audio files in the Viewer, they are both panned -1. Oddly, the audio doesn’t seem to be panned in actual fact. The Left/Right audio meters are in perfect sync. Odder still, when I imported audio from a client, the same thing happened.
What gives? I’ve had a lot of problems with the whole FCP-STP process.
For example, I use stereo pairs, because mono pairs don’t show up in STP. (I did a search on this issue in this forum and found that someone had noticed this many months ago — so this can’t be a MacPro issue.)
For another example, the alleged round-tripping capabilities of FCP and STP invites FCP hard crashes. That’s why I export files, and rename them, rather than using FCP’s Open in Editor or Send to STP Project. Too many crashes otherwise, when I commit the sin of Following the Manual…. I’m posting here, because I haven’t gotten responses to my FCP/STP problems on the STP forum.
I hope Apple clears this up. Maybe this is a MacPro issue. But as I recall, Apple owns FCP, STP, and MacPro…. Do you think anyone from Apple reads this forum?
— Bob C
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4 Replies
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I find playing things out of the viewer does not play things in stereo. I have to add things to the timeline to really get the surgery done.
Jeremy
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Panning doesn’t actually affect a clip physically. It’s a stereo pair, but think of it as 2 separate files. You panned each to center and exported. The exporting kept it as 2 separate audio clips, although it also mixed them together physically, so there is no way to get the stereo back. The files have been mixed. Thery’re 2 separate files of the same sound now. So then you did your thing in stp and exported. It’s still a stereo pair you imported and FCP simply applied it’s default stereo pair pan default. But they’re mixed together now so they don’t sound different.
Make sense?
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[Bret Williams] “Make sense?”
Yes. Thank you. That part of it does make sense. And the purple lines that show pan location do move in opposite directions as I change from -1 to 0 to 1. (I am not in front of FCP right now, but I assume that in order to pan the channels independently, you merely have to separate the tracks, right?)
But what about the stability issues? Have you seen anything about that? I wonder whether that is a MacPro issue, and in that case, I should just accept it as part of the deal for getting new hardware. Or perhaps even a Kona LHe issue.
Thanks again.
— Bob
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[Bob Cole] “But what about the stability issues?”
I have tried the send to soundtrack command and have had media that has simply disappeared off of my hard drive. It’s was not cool. The STPro/FCP connection is faulty at best. I have resroted to what you do and export a reference and work with from there.
Hopefully this gets sorted soon. Actually, I wish the sound editing in FCP would be designed a little better rather than having to take it to another app.
Jeremy
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