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  • Audio still popping in FCP 7 after I’ve converted the files into AIF

    Posted by Bryan Cosgriff on November 18, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    While editing a short film of mine, I came across a part of the timeline where the audio begins to pop. It would then proceed to take over my speakers and force me to restart the computer in order to get things back to normal. I looked on one of the forums here and I saw that the answer was to convert all of the Audio files into AIF files. It seemed to work, except now it gets to a different point in the timeline and starts doing the same thing (only difference is that it no longer takes over my speakers, it just seems to be an issue with that section of the audio track).

    Please help! This film has to be finished by November 22nd!

    -Bryan

    Neal Broffman replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Neal Broffman

    November 18, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    What do you mean when you say it “takes over my speakers”?
    Does the audio “pop” at edit points or randomly throughout a single clip?
    AIFF at 48K?
    What are the audio settings of your timeline?
    More info…

    Neal Broffman
    One Production Place, Atlanta, GA
    http://www.oneproductionplace.com
    Latest project:
    Series of profiles for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans.
    https://vimeo.com/channels/pdsoros

  • Bryan Cosgriff

    November 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    What I mean by “it takes over my speakers” is that anything with audio becomes mute and when I hit the volume buttons on my keyboard (I have a macbook pro) it makes the same popping noises. It also just randomly makes the popping noises.

    Randomly throughout a single clip.

    Yeah the AIFF file is at 48K

    The Sequence and Capture Presets are both at DV NTSC 48 kHz

  • Neal Broffman

    November 18, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    Popping, not beeping, right? Have you rendered all audio (option-command-r)?

    Neal Broffman
    One Production Place, Atlanta, GA
    http://www.oneproductionplace.com
    Latest project:
    Series of profiles for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans.
    https://vimeo.com/channels/pdsoros

  • Bryan Cosgriff

    November 18, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    It starts as just popping and then it starts to repeat a certain sound of the track (a screen door being pushed) and then it stops repeating and just goes into loud popping (and beeping I guess). I’m sorry that I didn’t mention this part in my original post.

  • Neal Broffman

    November 19, 2011 at 12:19 am

    Go into your FCP User prefs and change your audio playback quality to low. Minimize the number of audio tracks you have playing at one time on your timeline, render your audio (have you added effects to your audio?).

    Neal Broffman
    One Production Place, Atlanta, GA
    http://www.oneproductionplace.com
    Latest project:
    Series of profiles for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans.
    https://vimeo.com/channels/pdsoros

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