• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Audio tickling

  Posted by Erik Mickelson on January 22, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  Anyone notice this?
  Listen really carefully to the background clicks while having FCP open. You can use an empty timeline if you so desire. There are faint tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick sounds. Now open a project timeline and scrub the playhead(no audio in my example) the ticking sound will increase and decrease.

  To stop the clicking sounds just open another program and have that as the top window or drag a finder window over the canvas viewing area. The finder window MUST cover the entire viewable portion of the canvas window. Now drag the finder window so that you can see a little bit of the video underneath = tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

  “So what?” You may ask. That’s what I say.

  Dual Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz, 6GB ram, 2x500GB Raid, Tiger 10.4.11, FCP 5.1.4

  Thaxter Clavemarlton replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  January 22, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  How are you minitoring your FCP audio?
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  Erik Mickelson

  January 22, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  Comes out of the back of the mac. 1/8″ to stereo then to a Crown D-75 amp then to a pair of JBL 4206 near field monitors. I suppose I could have the audio come out to my MOTU then the Crown amp.

  How about a Kona or Black Magic something or other.

  Oh, I also hear a zipping type of sound when scrolling web pages too.

  I think it has something to do with EMF and croostalk within the Mac architecture. Strange for sure.

  Dual Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz, 6GB ram, 2x500GB Raid, Tiger 10.4.11, FCP 5.1.4
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  January 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  [Erik] “I suppose I could have the audio come out to my MOTU then the Crown amp.
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  Why not try that and see if the ticking goes away?

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