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Audio clipping across match-frame edits?
Hello there,
I’ve been working in Avid for a few years and I think this is the first time I’ve come across this.
I’m an offline editor, and when I’m cutting, I do my rough audio mixing by adding match frame edits on the music tracks, dipping them and adding cross-fades across those edits.This has worked just fine for me for years, and I find it much quicker than adding and manipulating keyframes.
However on my current project I’m noticing that I’m having issues. Across a lot of these edits I’m hearing what sound like very slight skips, or audio pops, as if the audio either side of the edit have slipped back or forward a frame even though it’s a match frame edit.
I’m working in MC v8.4.2 on windows. Anyone got any ideas? I’d rather not have to go back and re-do all this mixing with keyframes if I can avoid it.
Thanks,
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5 Replies
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I, like you have used this technique for a long time. (i started on Avid in 95, and that was how i learnt to use audio on the timeline…still do it to this day)
I am now running box on 8.5, one on 8.6 and haven’t seen an issue.
Are you hearing the pop after you add a dissolve?
I will occasionally hear a pop on an audio edit if you are not at a 0 point crossing in the audio, but usually a 1 frame dissolve will fix that.
do you hear a pop if you do an add edit, but don’t adjust levels on either side?
Glenn
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Hi Glenn,
Thanks for your response. I don’t get any pops or jumps when the levels are the same on both sides of the cut. It’s only noticeable when I have a cut, with different levels on each side, and a crossfade across the cut.
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weird…I am not seeing that.
Are you linking to media, or is it avid created media. Perhaps just a lag from linked media?
Glenn
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Nope, these are audio files that have been imported into the Avid. Just to confirm, I tried adding a match frame edit on a music track that had no percussion, just a droney soundscape, and there is definitely, very audible clipping at the start and end of the cross fade. If i take the crossfade off, I can still hear clipping, and most strangely, if I set the audio levels on the track back to the same levels, I STILL hear clipping across the cut.
Any thoughts?
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Did you render them?
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