• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Merging without black gaps?

  Posted by Pablo González on April 8, 2008 at 1:06 pm

  Hi all,

  I’m synchronizing the audio on the rushes for a short film shot in 35mm in FCP. I’ve done subclips of each take using markers. I put the subclip in the timeline and match it with the audio (using slate), I link them together and then drag them to the browser. It makes a new merged clip alright, but with black gaps at the beginning and the end of the clip (for the sound take is always longer than my subclips). I’de like to have only the lenght of the video take, Is there any way to avoid these gaps?

  I’ve also tryied using the merge clips command but the result is the same!

  Thanks

  Pablo González replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Steven Gonzales

  April 8, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  I had this issue while syncing also.

  My work around was this:

  1) Sync audio to video in sequence.
  2) trim audio to same length as video.
  3) double click timeline audio to open in viewer.
  4) make subclip of audio (command u)
  5) delete audio in sequence, overwrite new audio subclip, drag merge clip to bin.

  Seems like a lot of steps, but once you get into a rhythm, it’s nothing.
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  Steven Gonzales

  April 8, 2008 at 2:29 pm

  I found my more detailed instructions on this syncing technique:

  My video and audio each had a marker at the slate.

  Insert sound, click on sequence, hit home key
  Overwrite video, hit home key
  drag markers on video and audio to match up
  down arrow to get to front of video, control v to cut audio, shift delete front extra audio
  down arrow to get to end of video, control v to cut end audio, shift delete end audio
  double click audio (opens in viewer)
  make subclip (command u), double click new audio subclip to open in viewer
  click to make sequence active, hit home key to get to beginning of sequence
  F10 to overwrite audio
  select all (command A)
  link (command L0
  drag to bin to make merged clip
  delete sequence contents
  delete audio subclip
  repeat…..
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  Pablo González

  April 8, 2008 at 4:40 pm

  Hey Steven,

  Thanks a lot for your very precise answer! Working smoothly now.

  By the way, cool last name.

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