• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Audio Artefacts / Freeze Frames during onlining

  Posted by Kai Cheong on October 22, 2006 at 8:43 am

  1) Recently, I’ve noticed that audio artefacts have been appearing in the audio of clips I’ve captured [DV footage from a DV camera, shot on new Sony MiniDV tapes, through a Firewire 400, sometimes using the same camera that shot the footage, through ‘Offline Photo JPEG’ and also ‘DV25PAL’]. There will be the occasional but noticeable 1 or 2 frames of audio distortion, whereas the rest of the audio is perfectly fine.

  Incidentally, I’ve just finished reading ‘Optimizing Your Final Cut System’ from the Apple Pro series of training books – really useful stuff – and their audio troubleshooting section doesn’t help in my situation.

  It’s not a settings problem – it was shot on 48Khz, 16 bit and captured as such. I’ve listened to the source tape – it’s clean. The sequence is set for 48Khz and 16bit [plus, apart from the very random audio kink, the rest of the audio is fine].

  I’ve tried recapturing the offending clips but the audio distortion will just occur in another section instead. Hmmm…

  The only suspicion I have now is that the Firewire cable is wonky. Do you guys have any other suggestions? And if it’s a Firewire issue [mine’s a regular $10 cable bought from an electronics store] – any tips on picking a reliable Firewire cable?

  2) A little question on smooth onlining [Ken Stone’s website has done a good job of providing the tips and tricks… but there’s just one thing I’m still curious about…] I realized that if I online using the process detailed here: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.html , I still face problems with freeze frames that I’d made – the corresponding footage that the freeze frame was taken from wasn’t automatically selected and up-rezed.

  Apart from going back and capturing the frezee frame footage manually or bringing it out to Photoshop and then bringing it in again, is there anything else I can do when preparing my offline sequence for online that I can do?

  I’m currently editing with FCP 5 on a Powerbook G4.

  Kai Cheong replied 19 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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