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Too many audio tracks
Hello all,
We’re editing a project shot with Varicam. When digitizing, some clips were accidentally captured with 8 audio tracks even though only 2 were used. I wish I could blame my assistant for that, but I was responsible for some of it too, I’m afraid.
Does anyone know if there’s any way in Final Cut to batch delete audio tracks from clips? I know there’s a way to do it in QT Pro, but I think you have to do it clip by clip which is a pain. I could also re-capture, but I’d rather not. Not a big deal, but it would be slightly more convenient to just have two audio tracks per clip.
I swear by Final Cut and I’ve never really had cause to complain about FCP media management, despite what everyone says, so it pains me to say that this would be relatively easy in Avid.
Thanks in advance,
– David
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Not that I know of. You can simply ignore those extra tracks if you want to. Those extra tracks will enable themselves everytime you switch from an internal capture source, like DV, back to a source that allows multiple track capture. Our Kona 3 enables 16 tracks of audio during capture and I always have to be aware to disable those extra 14 tracks.
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Avid ALWAYS captures audio and video as separate files. So deleting unused audio tracks is a breeze. With FCP, you have the option to capture audio and video as one QT file, or to capture the audio and video as separate files. If you chose to capture as one QT file, you cannot delete the other audio tracks. If you captured audio and video separate, you could.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[dheidel] “Does anyone know if there’s any way in Final Cut to batch delete audio tracks from clips? I know there’s a way to do it in QT Pro, but I think you have to do it clip by clip which is a pain. I could also re-capture, but I’d rather not. Not a big deal, but it would be slightly more convenient to just have two audio tracks per clip.”
I’ve done this more times than I would love to admit… The only easy solution would be to re-capture your clips. Sorry…. FCP doesn’t have any option for selecting the audio you want to edit.
This brings me back to my days with Media100. With the old Media100, you could select your audio independent of your video without affecting the original clip. This was nice if you happened to capture more tracks than you needed.
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Wayne Carey
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Thanks guys. That’s more or less what I figured. I guess I’ll be submitting a feature request for FCP 7. It seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to implement since QT does it easily. Maybe I could write an AppleScript or Automator or something in the meantime.
Shane, I’ve never had occasion to capture audio and video to separate files. Where’s the check-box for that?
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Hi,
Hos many clips do you have and how much time do you want to spend.
We have done the following in the past without any problems.
Open you clip in quicktime and press CMD + J to get the properties window. Turn the check marks on and off to disable the audio tracks you do not want.
Play the quicktime file to verify you have unchecked the correct tracks. Select the unchecked tracks and delete them.
When you import them in to your FCP project your audio track indication should be different.
You do not reclaim any disk space with this technique even though you can not get the audio tracks back after deletion.
Does this help you?
Regards
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Damn,
Just re-read our post and realise that you already know this.
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Damn,
Just re-read our post and realise that you already know this.
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Same here. And is there a quick key to turn off those extra tracks, like in the timeline (option-click), or do you always have to turn them off one at a time?
Joe Murray
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