Audio Dropouts when outputting to tape…

[Don Greening]

Try doing an audio mixdown of your timeline before outputting to tape. Especially if you have multiple audio tracks. Command-Option-R is the shortcut I think.

– Don

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[Don Greening] “Try doing an audio mixdown of your timeline before outputting to tape”

Absolutely.

The Audio Mixdown function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Cateleven]

I agree with Matte. I have solved many video dropout issues by mixing down audio only.