• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Too many audio tracks, Some not playing until other’s deleted

  Posted by Rob Grauert on January 29, 2009 at 2:01 am

  Hi,

  I am editing a short documentary style video. I am using Digital Juice’s Stack Trax music CDs, and because each instrument of a song can be on it’s own audio track for easy audio editing, I have to render the audio for playback.

  The problem I am having is: even after rendering, some audio tracks don’t play. For example, In the beginning of my timeline there are 14 audio tracks being used. After rendering, everything plays except for my narration. If I delete the music, the narration can now be heard. What is the problem?

  I tried Final Cut Pro>User Preferences>General Tab and changing “Real Time Audio Playback” to 20 tracks, but that just eliminates the need for rendering.

  Any ideas?

  I’m running a Mac Pro with 2 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Xeon Processors and 13GB of RAM. OSX10.4.11

  Thanks for the help.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

  Jeremy Garchow replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rob Grauert

  January 29, 2009 at 2:07 am

  Also, when I export the area of the timeline I am having problems with, narration is still not there. So it is as if too many audio tracks causes FCP to ignore other audio tracks.

  Thanks for any help.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Walter Biscardi

  January 29, 2009 at 2:34 am

  Not really sure. Maybe your track is not enabled? Or your narration is too low compared to the music to be heard?

  I’ve never had an issue like this even with 24 tracks playing.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Rob Grauert

  January 29, 2009 at 4:31 am

  Nah, the track is definitely enabled, and the audio levels are OK. The problem just started randomly. Weird. If trashing the prefs doesn’t work, maybe I’ll export the timeline to Soundtrack Pro. I just didn’t want to resort to that incase I want to move clips around. Oh well.

  Thanks for your response.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 29, 2009 at 4:51 am

  Try deleting all of your audio render files in your capture scratch and try it again.

  Also, is all of your audio media 48k, 16bit aiff or there abouts?

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