• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP pulling down audio to 23.98?

  Posted by Jeff Werner on July 6, 2009 at 2:46 am

  Our project is 35 mm film (cutting neg eventually).

  Digitizing 29.97 telecined DVCam tapes into a 23.98 FCP project.

  Importing audio straight from digtital files provided by sound recordist and syncing with the merge function in FCP.

  Presumably sound files match 24 fps, but we are cutting at 23.98 speed.

  So before we sync and merge audio with picture, how do we modify the speed of the audio clips so they run at 23.98? Can we do this in FCP and if so some step by step instructions are highly appreciated!

  thanks,
  j

  jw

  Jeff Werner replied 17 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Werner

  July 7, 2009 at 6:50 am

  Sound files match and 35 mm film is definitely 24 fps.

  We have gotten the function to work but a new problem has arisen – I just posted it but here it is for you – any thoughts appreciated:

  We are importing WAV files from our sound recordist (2 mono split tracks, 24 bit, 48k) so we can sync to our 23.98 picture in FCP (picture was film -> DVCam with FLX files -> in at 29.97, reverse telecine applied for a 23.98 project).

  Some merged clips are having dropouts/ slight distortions. Our sequence presets are set to 23.98 when we import the clips, and they play in sync. However, the sound quality is not acceptable. The odd thing is that it doesn’t happen on all the clips or even clips of certain durations consistently (although I would say in general we are noticing this on longer clips).

  We are really in a bind – we have new footage coming at us every day and we have to resolve this asap.

  We also are not hearing the problems on the original files (or at least on the synced sound on the videotape – the only reason we are syncing ourselves is to get the 24bit as the DVCam is 16 bit).

  Is there a setting we are missing somewhere? ANY ideas highly appreciated.

  Thank you!

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