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missing and or corrupt soundtrack files
Hi
I did a project a while back, and i had to de-noise a bunch of sound clips in Soundtrack Pro.
I exported each clip to be processed, opened them up in soundtrack pro, did the processing, then saved them as project files, allowing me to go back and do more if needed. the soundtrack files played great, the show got done.
now i want to finally put this job away, so i opened up the job, and i have no sound in my .stap sound files ie project files!. I get these cryptic error messages about needing “flatten0349834.aif or the movie wil not play” . If i just try to reconnect, each of the .stap files is looking for “render.mov”. and when i go to open the .stap directly, it will not open, with no explanation as to why.
how did i mess this up? this is waht the book sez to do if you want to non destructively edit sound? is this yet another case of f**king FCP not really doing what the book sez?
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8 Replies
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How did you export the sound in the first place?
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JG…dood…my man!
“Export to Soundtrack” which then created aif files, which are still on line
see, if i open the .stap file through soundtrack, it opens correctly, and all the sound is there.
its only the .stap file in FCP thats empty.
one more thing: if i try to “open in editor” on the .stap file in my FCP sequence, i get an error message “file error: unkown file”
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
Sounds like something got corrupted or render files got lost along the way. You can drag the staps back into FCP and reedit them in. That should do it.
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Sounds like something got corrupted or render files got lost along the way. You can drag the staps back into FCP and reedit them in. That should do it.
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jg
thanx!
where can i find out more about the workings of soundtrack pro? i actually have found the user manual to be erroneous and unreliable. If this whole round trip thing is only good in a limitied way, i would like to know those limits
for example, i had mediamangled the job to free up hard drive space, and i wound up with all these “render.mov” files, that are basically some kind of reference movie. (I think thats what the error messages i get about “unable to play movie without flatten756354769.aif” are referring to)
so now i have a bunc of “render.mov”s with numbers ie render.mov-1, render.mov-2 etc
i am not sure if the mangler did that, or if its normal. so it would be nice to know where those render files are kept and so on, so i do not get burned in the futureas for now, i am just gonna archive the job, and if i need to i will re redit those .stap files back into my sequences.
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
It’s not an exact science and I really could never get it to work properly. I never round trip, I simply export from FCP, Work in STP, then export a hard copy back to FCP. Supposedly this is sorted out better in FCS2 but I haven’t installed yet. Waiting for FCS2.1
Jeremy
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JG
Yeah it sounds like nesting, something that is supposed to work a certain way, but in fact doens not (i always do a hard export of my nest before editing it in)
I find these “features” that dont work to be the most frustrating. and i also think its a direct reflection of why the programs are so cheap.
oh well, back to cutting demos and webclips
thanx again
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc. -
[Bob Flood] “Yeah it sounds like nesting, something that is supposed to work a certain way, but in fact doens not
I find these “features” that dont work to be the most frustrating. and i also think its a direct reflection of why the programs are so cheap.”
You pretty much hit the nail on the head there. Hopefully FCS2 fixes some of these things, but my hopes are not that high.
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