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  Final Cut Pro: Audio quality changing in playback…very poor

  Posted by John Mutter on November 29, 2011 at 9:46 pm

  FINAL CUT PRO AUDIO becoming almost “demo” sounding audio.

  I am doing music and sound for a video and I have several audio tracks going.
  I find when I load in a music track, at first it sounds normal, but after I edit something else and come back to it the audio changes to almost a “demo” sound, very very low quality, thin and distant. If I delete it and reload the audio back in, it sounds normal again, but will eventually become low quality again. This is very troublesome as I have so many tracks all being edited in different ways. Even when I bounce, if the audio is in its poor quality state, the bounce will reflect that.

  I did have the sequence settings different from the format I was bouncing too (the sequence was 16 bit 48000 and my audio was 24 bit 44100) but after changing that I still get the same problems.

  Any ideas?
  Thanks

  John Mutter replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  November 30, 2011 at 2:14 am

  I’m unclear on what the ramifications are of just changing a sequence’s audio rate that much… try creating a new empty one, and place a clip in there to see what ensues… I have a feeling that just changing settings isn’t all you need to do.

  What format is the audio? air? wav’s or?

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  John Mutter

  November 30, 2011 at 11:37 pm

  Hi there

  Thanks for much for the response and sorry for wasting your time! I figured out the problem. FYI I was using aif’s but I didn’t properly change the sample rate under SEQUENCE>SETTINGS…I was changing it in the wrong place.

  Works fine now!

  Thanks again!

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