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Random and Extreme Audio Peaks
I’m working with FCP 7 and PAL footage.
There are times when, watching the footage on my timeline, the audio will peak to an extreme. The weird thing is that its completely random. It won’t happen in the same place twice and once I pause the footage and press play it goes away. It has been pretty jumpy now. It’s happened 3 times in the past 30 minutes while wearing headphones. I’m hoping someone can help me figure this out before I go deaf.
Thanks!
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You have told us nothing about your configuration. Anything anyone could tell you would be a blind guess.
Here is blind guess number 1.
Uninstall and reinstall your capture card driver. -
sorry. I’m new at this, so i’m not sure what you mean by configuration, but here’s what I think you mean.
Using a MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory
My final cut sequence timeline is set to DV PAL 48 at 25fps.
I hope that’s what you meant.
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Good guess John, I would have guessed the same. In addition, I would guess that trashing preferences might also be a possible fix.
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What’s the sample rate of your audio?
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that might be it, actually.
The clips themselves are 32kHz but the sequence is set to 48kHz.
I suppose I have to convert everything to 48kHz now?
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Yep, that’s it. And yep, just drop your files into compressor and convert them to aiff 48hz. It takes seconds. Then you can take those bad files offline and relink to the correct ones.
I had this happen recently with one random clip I got that was a different sample rate and man, that sound it makes is loud.
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FCP is hopeless at converting sample rates on the fly. The spikes you are hearing is FCP doing that job badly. In the end 48khz is the standard rate for digital audio for broadcast, DVD etc.
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Thank you everyone!
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I’m having the same problem. I’ve tried converting all of my audio to 48khz, but every now and then (when I least expect it), SCREEEEEEECHHHH!!!
It’s jarring and insanely loud and it might stop my heart one day. Anybody else have any answers?
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What format are the audio files and what are your sequence settings?
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