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Recovering Vanishing Audio on Merged Multiclips
We are cutting a network series and were testing a new workflow for audio due to the tendency of editors to accidentally lose or write over top of multitrack audio, anyone who has cut a dramatic series with three or more sources of audio with 8 tracks will know how easy it is to lose track of your audio and accidentally write overtop of multiple tracks. This becomes a headache when we send OMFs away to our audio post house for the mix as they always want the missing tracks.
Since the audio is captured separately we had been syncing the audio by adding the Deva AIFFs to the timeline but since it was unmerged the editors would not have an easy way of recovering lost audio tracks.
Thus, at the advice of a senior editor who had used this workflow before, we merged the multiclip with our 8-track DEVA files so that the DEVA audio merged with the video from Camera A. All seemed well until we sent off the first OMF for a mix.
The problem this created is threefold:
– 1) editors are still writing over tracks and/or audio is mysteriously vanishing from the multiclip as they cut. Since I am not sitting with them I have no idea if their claim that ‘things just disappear’ is true.
– 2) by merging the audio we lose reference to the original AIFF file name and a matchframe does not bring up source audio, rather it calls up the multiclip.
– 3) As a result, to get a complete OMF with all source tracks, we have to go through a lengthy process of re-syncing the source audio to _each_ edit on the timeline, which is totally manual and takes 1-2 days for each 22 minute show, much worse than our old system where we just match-framed what remained of the audio clip and brought that back to the timeline.Any ideas on how we could more easily recover / re-sync source audio without going through a 2-day audio online? Has anyone experienced audio source ‘vanishing’ from merged multiclips.
Jared Lorenz
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Here’s some people with a potential answer:
“Sound Edit
Once picture and sound are locked, sound is conformed and assembled in Final Cut Pro. Using custom scripts, the audio timeline is rebuilt using all tracks of the original polyphonic WAV files and is sent as a multitrack OMF to sound editing.”
Try contacting Electric Entertainment and maybe they’ll give you some help. The reference is here:
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/leverage/index2.html
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