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Audio track assignments not sticking with XDCAM footage
Hi there,
Our editor is working with some XDCAM footage (shot both on the EX3 and PDW-700) and we’ve run into some problems. We are trying to create track assignments within our sequences so we can conform them to our delivery specs ahead of time (leaving ch1 & ch2 open for narration, ch3 & ch4 for synch sound, etc etc).
What seems to be happening, though, is that the assignments we define work for the first clip we cut into the sequence, after which the assignments reset to whatever the original order happened to be coming from the source.
For the moment we’ve resolved to just let Avid do what it wants with the track assignments for the sake of consistency (so we can re-order them later) but that puts a serious kink in our workflow. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks very much,
Jared Flynn
Motion Graphics Designer / Lead AE
Lone Wolf Documentary Group -
1 Reply
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[Jared Flynn] “he assignments reset to whatever the original order happened to be coming from the source.”
So if I understand, you have a timeline with mulitple tracks of audio (1-4) and source footage with 4 channels. You want the configuration something like…
Source>Timeline
A3>A1
A4>A2
A1>A3
A2>A4And each time you load a clip in the source window, it defaults back to
A1>A1
A2>A2, etc.Avid will look at each track and see which are activated. If tracks A1, A2, A7 & A8 are activated in the timeline, the clip will load as follows…
A1>A1
A2>A2
A3>A7
A4>A8I don’t know of a way around that.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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