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Audio popping mystery
Hey everyone…
I can’t find anything on this happening to anyone else, please help!
I am running Final Cut Express and am currently in post production on a short film I produced this summer…
There is a sequence in the movie where the guy says the same word 16 times in a row in RAPID succession for comic effect….and each shot is a separate shot of him saying the word is at different times while he is driving in a car talking to someone.
Now, when I first edited the sequence there was that slight popping noise between each audio transition to which I cured with a little ‘audio cross fade 0db’ (which I use throughout the entire movie and it works beautifully, problem solved!) The first rough cut of the movie I edited in one giant SEQUENCE in that PROJECT.
In an effort to keep everything clean and organized for the final cut…I managed to separate the movie into 8 SEQUENCES and started a new PROJECT called ‘Whole Movie’ to which I threw all 8 Sequences into. That way I can just open up ‘Whole Movie’…click on which SEQUENCE I want to clean up and work on. Great. And I am almost done…
Here is the mystery…
The particular SEQUENCE that has that car scene with the rapid fire succession of the word…sounds great when I click on that sequence and play it back. If flows beautifully with no popping between audio transitions thanks to cross fade. HOWEVER…
When I play the movie as a whole in ‘Whole Movie’ (With just the 8 SEQUENCES back to back) That audio popping in that scene is as blatant as the day is long…it’s as if the cross fades disappeared. I click on that particular SEQUENCE to find the problem…the cross fades are there…and when I play it back within the sequence itself…it sounds great. Click back to ‘Whole Movie’… pop, pop, pop.
Is this just a playback error or will those pops show up when I export ‘Whole Movie’ ? Or should I just drag everything when I’m done back into one giant sequence?
Let me know!
Thanks!Hogan
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2 Replies
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Try mixing down the audio. If that fails, then try exporting it, then cutting that exported file into your sequence.
Jerry
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An alternative is to just make a file of that dialog edit and drop it back in.
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