• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Audio Mixer Misbehaving – URGENT!

  Posted by Paco Sweetman on May 20, 2007 at 8:20 am

  I’m on the last day of the low budget feature I’ve been working on for the last seven months. A screener DVD has to be with the financiers tomorrow.

  For the last two and half weeks I have been working through the audio on the timeline adjusting the volume on the audio mixer tool.

  When I watch the film back (75mins. DVCPRO HD) the mixer seems work in real time with the film. If a music track is mixed down to -3db, it will play way to loud. But if I touch the fader on the Mixer tool, not even adjust it, the volume returns to the way I’ve mixed it.

  I think it could be one of a few reasons.

  1. I’m using 20 tracks of audio. The most at the same time being used is 8.
  2. I have the mixer window dragged out of FCP and sitting on a small CRT monitor to the left of my 23” flatscreen. It’s not in the FCP project browser.
  3. FCP hasn’t recognised my adjustments. ( I understand if I move the mixer sliders during playback then I get keyframed audio fades. I make sure to stop the film so the overall volume is brought down.

  I have to have screeners DVD’s for the financiers tomorrow (my video has already been encoded to MPEG2) and I’m sh*tt*ng it. I know we should have used pro tools for the mix, but there wasn’t any cash for stuff like that.

  Any suggestions, help, general advice would be greatly appreciated!

  Jon

  Quad G5 (4x 2.5 Ghz)
  8 x Gb RAM (non-ECC)
  1Tb Pro Avio Disk Arrray (5 x 200Gb)

  Arnie Schlissel replied 18 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  May 20, 2007 at 11:53 am

  Have you performed an Audio Mixdown? What happens after you render that out?

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  Arnie Schlissel

  May 21, 2007 at 9:17 pm

  I think you need to delete your audio render files & re-render your audio. I’ve seen similar behavior, and removing the rendered audio fixed it.

  Arnie
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