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Suddenly stopped hearing audio in FCP
Hi, I’ve been working on a project in FCP for about a week now and everthing has been going well. I’ve been building up my project gradually with a guy talking to the camera while some motion graphics are flying around in the background. There are 2 audio tracks. 1 music track and the audio track from the guy talking. I’ve been rendering the project quite frequently to make sure everything is playing in sync. Now the problem, for some reason the audio track of the guy talking will not play even though i can see something is there as the meter is moving up and down showing the audio. The music track can be heard but it is not playing the same sound it was, the beat of the music track is really quiet while the rest of the music is crystal clear. When I try to listen to the origional track from the browser window it has the same problem.
It was working fine and then it decides to have an audio problem. Can anyone suggest anything?Keith Gray
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3 Replies
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Save your work.
The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
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Keith,
Open your audio video settings and see if the audio is not set right. You’ll have a choice of FireWire or built in audio.
Have a wonderful day.
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Could be a few different things, but here is my shot at it.
There is a way to mute individual audio channels and SOLOing them without seeing any visual difference on your timeline if Show Audio Controls is not selected in Sequence Settings. Try opening your Audio Mixer (Option 6) and look at the top of the A1 sliders. If the little speaker is lit, Channel 1 Audio os muted. If the little headphone is lit on Channel 2, then the audio on channel 2 is Solo. I believe there is a shortcut for this, but I can’t think of it. You can also open your Sequence Settings and under the Timeline Options tab if you click on Show Audio Controls (Lower left of column) you can basicly do the same thing and see them on your timeline.good luck,
victorVictor
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