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Audio Dropouts whn exporting to AIF
OS 10.4.8 (I recently stepped my OS back from 10.4.9 because that was giving me problems)
FCP 4.5
1.8 dual G5 (ppc)So I’m trying to export audio to AIF so I can compress it through a.pack and I’m getting AIF files with huge sections of audio not there. It just goes out and then comes back after 4 or 5 or 8 seconds. It happens multiple times over the course of a track. I’ve already exported this project once and built a DVD around with no problem – now I can’t figure out what the hell I’m doing wrong. it’s just a straight audio track, I don’t have any filters on it or anything.
Help.
RJ
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2 Replies
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There is a 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.
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Thanks. I’ll give it a try.
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