• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Movie has different durations

  Posted by Leigh Jewell on April 17, 2007 at 9:06 pm

  So here’s my problem. I captured a movie (with my Kona2 card at 29.97 if it matters). In Final Cut, the duration shows as 1:26:07:25. In Quicktime, it shows at 1:26:13:03. Normally, I wouldn’t look too closely at Quicktime, but when I export the audio into AIFs, then bring them into Final Cut, the AIFs show as 1:26:13:03. If I drop them into my timeline, the duration is 1:26:07:25. What gives?
  My goal is to create a 5.1 AC3 file. When I create the AC3, DVDSP reports the file at 1:26:07:27. The biggest problem is that the audio drifts but is in sync in the movie I captured. The file was captured at 8bit uncompressed, non-drop frame, 29.97.
  Has anyone seen this before and know of a solution?

  Thanks.

  Leigh Jewell

  Leigh Jewell replied 19 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Leigh Jewell

  April 17, 2007 at 9:39 pm

  Well, I really wish this was a simple case of Drop, Non-Drop and since I’ve been working in this business since BetaSPs and 1″ was a master format, I do know about the whole issue. I really loved it when you finally didn’t have to tell Final Cut what you were capturing.
  I open the file in the Browser, it says that it is non-drop. In my timeline preferences, the sequence is non-drop. I set-up the machine that I captured from and I set it to output non-drop.

  Thanks.

  (Have read the manual front to back and back to front from version 1.)

  Leigh

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