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Viewing Audio Waveforms FCP6
Hi,
I’m encountering a problem with FCP6 when trying to view the audio waveform on the timeline and in the Viewer. I have “Show Audio Waveforms” selected for the sequence, but it’ll still only show random parts of the waveform across random parts of the clip on the timeline with the rest of the audio blank with the obligatory crosses through it.
This is also the same for viewing audio in the Viewer: random parts being shown, and the rest blank. (Using a clip wich has continuous audio on it.)The waveform it does show varies between the standard style waveform, as you see when viewing the audio in the Viewer: symmetrical peaks and troughs, or, on the Timeline, it shows a waveform I haven’t seen before, which is best described as a ‘squiggly’ line with varying thickness to it depending on the level of the audio.
This is a new problem for me, one which I never encountered in FCP 5. This happens on both my machines, the PowerPC G5 (FCP 6.01, Dual 2Ghz, 6GB RAM, 64MB AGP, ext USB2 400GB HDD, Tiger 10.4.10) and the Mac Book Pro (FCP 6.01, Intel Core Duo 2.33Ghz, 2GB RAM, 256 Radeon X1600, ext USB2 400GB HDD, Tiger 10.4.10)
For both machines I have the waveform cache, along with all other scratch and cache settings, set to the external HDD which has about 60GB of free space.I just want to be able to view the standard waveform as I was able to in FCP5 without any problem. It makes audio editing pretty tough when you can’t see the waveform!! Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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2 Replies
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I’ve searched the apple.com forum for waveform issues like yours and came up blank. this suggests, inconclusively, that it’s a localized hardware or software installation issue at your end.
Wish I had more to tell you, sorry. Hope you get better advice soon.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I just had a similar problem when I moved up from FCP 4.5 to FCP 5. I was using a project that I had started in 4.5 and I couldn’t get the audio waveforms to show up. Turned out that somehow my waveform cache got corrupted, so I deleted the files and voila! Waveforms started appearing!
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