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Audio From protools is out of sync
Hi guys,
So I just finished editing a film shot ‘true 24’ not 23.976. I exported OMF’s and QT from FCP to protools. We mixed on those QT’s and everything seemed fine. However today when I got the .wav files back from the sound guys and cut them into FCP everything was 1) out of sync, 2) drifting.
Here’s the crazy part; the audio waveforms line up perfectly! When I compair the offline audio waves to the mixed audio waves everything appears to be in sync. Even weirder is that when I scrub the audio I got from Protools I hear sounds over parts that have no audio waves? WT-heck?
Any ideas?
-Misha -
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I have had same problem several times. It seems that .wav files drift in some systems. And only in some FCP systems, not all!! And the solution is to export .aiff file from Protools, and bring that in to FCP. To my experience just transcoding .wav to .aiff in your editing Mac does not solve sync issue, you have to export it from Protools as .aiff.
Strange, I know, but hey, these are computers and no one can understand them completely! -
Ok. Delete all of your sync sound out of the project.
Set an FCP easy setup for 24.0.
Quit Fcp, reopen FCP.
Reimport your sound.
Should be in sync now.
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Hi Jeremy,
WOW! What a good fix. So is the easy setup also sort of an import setting for clips? Your solution worked perfectly for the stereo sound, but I’m still having the same problems with the 5.1. Any ideas?
-Misha
Misha Tenenbaum
Editor/ Trainer
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[Misha Tenenbaum] “So is the easy setup also sort of an import setting for clips?”
FCP does seem to tag the audio with a frame rate of sorts upon import, and once it’s in, you can’t change it unless it’s reimported, unlike most things in FCP which are very flexible.
[Misha Tenenbaum] “Your solution worked perfectly for the stereo sound, but I’m still having the same problems with the 5.1”
How was this provided to you?
Jeremy
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