1080p not a choice AND 2 pops not lining up

[Tippytink]

I have done this. I can tell you that even when I put the audio file in a 24p timeline by itself it does not show the length it says it is in the brower or in QT Pro. The only way the duration shows up correctly is like I said, when I put the audio file into a 29.97 timeline.

Thanks for sticking with me through this. I am pretty confused.

Melissa

[Aaron Neitz]

…have you tried exporting AIFF’s files from the WAV files? Maybe there’s something going on with FCP and QT???

[Tippytink]

Apples advice… “we do not support old versions, you need to upgrade”

Ugh.

The sound designer sent a snap shot of his settings and they were 24. So, not sure what to do at this point. I am going to try and get an aif export instead of a wav. What else is there to try?

Melissa

[_adam_]

Hmmm… you can try having them wrap their audio in Quicktime and use this: https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/ to force the timecode track to 24fps.

[Sean Oneil]

Forget the audio place. Just fix it yourself. It will take 2 seconds to do.

Your video is 24.00. Your audio was output for 23.98/29.97. SLOW THE AUDIO DOWN to 99.9%. Or speed it up to 100.1% (I can clearly think as to which direction you go). Point is, the speed must be altered by .1% in order to match. That’s it. You said earlier you tried this and it worked fine. So what’s the problem?

This is not some workaround hack with imprecise results. It is a perfectly legitimate method with a perfectly good technical explanation as to why it works this way.

Audio doesn’t have frame rates. It has a sample rate, usually 48000 samples per second. You audio engineer sent you a 48khz audio. Quicktime is assuming that it should play this back at video speedin order to sync up with video that has a framerate of either 29.97 or 23.98. But your video is .1% slower (or faster) because it’s 24.00.

Just change the audio speed settings in Final Cut, like you successfully did before.

I don’t know any other way to explain this. Sorry for the tone, but I feel I could not have explained any more clearly. If you don’t trust our advice, then I suggest reading the Cinema Tools manual.

Sean