audio out of sync after coloring in color

[John Pale]

What codec was your FCP timeline that you sent to Color?

[Susanto Widjaja]

hi John,

thanks for replying.

Its AIC codec. We have been using the same codec with color previously for quiet some time without issues… but mainly we previously worked with not so many audio like this particular project has.

not sure if that would make a difference though..

thanks

[John Pale]

What is codec Color sending back to FCP?

do the frame rates match?

sounds like Color is sending back something different than you sent it.

Can’t say that I have ever used AIC?

Why are you not using ProRes? AIC is not used much these days.

[Andrew Rendell]

Yeah, I’ve seen it happen too, don’t know why it happened, but what I did was to make a copy of the sequence that I sent to Color, deleted the pics and copied the pics that came back from Color onto it.

[Susanto Widjaja]

ok this is weird but i have found some facts that go with it.

I have the project and the media in two places

1. firewire 800 raid5 drive (used by my editor to cut the long version)
2. mini-sas 8 bay stardom st8 (used by me to cut the short version using my editor’s fcp project file)

I opened the project using my mini-sas and the audio was out of sync.

I found out that I had mp3 audio files whereeas my editor already converted the audio to aiff. so I copy and pasted the aiff file to my mini-sas drive and reconnected it to that file.

Still, its out of sync. Then I tried to reconnect the audio file to the one in the firewire800 drive and it worked!!! Its the same exact file.

I don’t know why this happened. I thought there’s something wrong with my mini-sas, but I copied and pasted that audio file to my desktop and reconnected from there and its still out of sync.

Please help.. I have used digital rebellion software to clean up my fcp… still no success..

thank you

Santo

[Jon Schilling]

Santo,

This sounds odd to us, we’re checking into it.

Jonathan Schilling | Sales & Marketing Manager
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Jon Schilling COW LEADER – Stardom Storage Forum

[Susanto Widjaja]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your help.

The stardom at the moment is very inconsistent for me. I have put it on different slots on my PCIe macpro but still the same. My fcp would be very fast one time and then half hour later it will be very slow.

Thanks in advance again

Santo