• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  TC craziness

  Posted by Michael Sacci on December 13, 2009 at 5:39 am

  I was trying to FTP audio from video and keep TC in the audio, Opened up the mov file in STP to do a save as to make it a WAV file. Bring the wav file into FCP and the start TC is close to 41 secs off. So I try using Compressor to do a highly compressed video version and same thing happens.
  Starting TC in FCP 11:18:58:03
  Starting TC in Compressor 11:18:17:09 (I get this if I turn on the TC overlay filter or if I export it and bring the file into FCP.

  Any ideas?

  Bouke Vahl replied 16 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  December 13, 2009 at 5:59 am

  Hi Michael,
  No idea of the reason, but as you know we have saw many strange behaving with audio files originally from audio (specially with WAV).
  Why don’t you try extract the TC from the original clip and paste it to the WAV?
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Michael Sacci

  December 13, 2009 at 6:35 am

  why, because I never thought of that. 🙂

  I will give it a try.

  This weirdness is not just with the audio file, happens with compressor converting to a compressed movie file but your fix works for both.

  Thanks.
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  Arnie Schlissel

  December 13, 2009 at 8:41 pm

  Was this a merged clip or a sub clip? That could account for the TC weirdness.

  Arnie
  Post production is not an afterthought!
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  Bouke Vahl

  December 16, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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  Jeremy Garchow

  December 16, 2009 at 3:47 pm

  *Edit

  Please forgive this post. Somehow I responded to a completely different thread and this post has been posted on other threads. Something at the Cow isn’t working correctly. Sorry to intrude.

  Jeremy
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  Bouke Vahl

  December 16, 2009 at 3:49 pm

  DUDES!

  You are PROS!

  This is a typical DF / NDF issue.

  Keep in mind that TC in WAV (or BWF in this case) DOES NOT contain DF / NDF information. (Well, it can store a bit of extra info, but afaik, only Avid uses that part of metadata on import, and only if you allow it to do so…)

  Also keep in mind that BWF and FCP do not play nice.
  (Hence Andreas’ BWF to XML and my way of putting BWF in a QT container)

  Download my FCPauxTC reader, it comes with a BWF / QT merge application. Use that one to check the BWF TC, perhaps that’ll shed some light on what goes wrong where. (the free demo will do just fine.)
  https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=26

  Bouke

  https://www.videotoolshed.com/
  smart tools for video pro’s

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