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Audio tracks repeating weirdly? AND they have a grey line at the top?
Opened up an old project, and it is an interview. For some weird reason, alot of the audio for the interviewee’s voice have gone strange. Half way through the clip, the audio will just start to repeat itself, whilst the video carries on as normal. So he might say “hi there my name is john and i live down the road” in the original, but now it goes “hi there my name is john… hi there my name is john” whilst his mouth keeps moving as if he was speaking the original.
Also, when the repeating of the audio starts, there is a grey line that starts at the top of the audio clip.
Whats this all about?
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First thing to try is to Trash the AUDIO RENDER FILES (do a search for this folder) for this project and re-render.
Then, 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.
AND/OR:
Trash the FCP Preferences.
Here’s a link to a free Apple Script download that will do it correctly:https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
It has helped in countless problems.
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