• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  nested sequence audio wierdness

  Posted by Brett Nelson on February 4, 2007 at 7:53 pm

  I cut a sequence with seven tracks of audio. I rendered that sequence. I then dragged the sequence from the bin to a new timeline. Everything’s fine so far… I then add another track under the nested sequence (music as background for my seven-track VO sequence). At several points, the new timeline beeps to tell me to render. I render. Now those points where it needed rendering have merged all the tracks together and altered the mix. I wouldn’t mind the render merging everything if it would merge everything…but it only merges the points it needed.

  Am I missing something? I read a couple archive threads about nested sequence problems, but I’m hoping this isn’t one of them.

  Brett

  FCS 5.1.2
  MacBookPro

  Brett Nelson replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Nick Meyers

  February 5, 2007 at 2:26 am

  dont know what you mean by merge..
  you mean it;s gone from stereo to mono?

  but to just avoid all this,
  you can simply copy the audio from the nested sequence,
  and paste it into your new sequence,
  then get rid of the nested audio.

  for some stupid reason nests see the number of audio tracks as double whatever they contain.
  so FCP thinks you have 14 tracks, instead of 7.

  another simple approach might be to up your real time audio track allocation to 16.
  (user prefs)
  that should cover the 14 tracks + 2 more for music.

  with a copy/paste you may have to do this anyway if you still have the default 8 tracks of RT
  (7 + 2 for music = 9)

  nick
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  Brett Nelson

  February 5, 2007 at 6:31 am

  Nick,
  Thanks for the info! I doubled the number of RT audio tracks (to 16). I think that solved it. The merging I talked about was FCP mixing down my tracks to get to the default track number. Your telling me that I would need more RT tracks than actual tracks was a big help.

  The copy/paste method is probably the most reliable, but one of the biggest values in using nested sequences for me is audio. I don’t want to have 9 audio tracks in my final program if I can avoid it. I’m creating my project in about 6 segments. The ability to easily move those completed segments around is huge.

  Thanks again!

  Brett

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