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Audio woes
I’m having a terrible time trying to correct poorly captured audio in FCP. The scene is two talking heads, and I’m having to tinker a lot to get their levels and especially their tone to match.
My biggest problem however is that when I put on or pull of audio effects, FCP isn’t responding correctly. For instance, I had a gate on a clip, then removed it, but it stays on the clip. I remixed the audio down(command option R). Still there. I trash the audio render files, still there. I have to go back and get the original clip in order to eliminate the effect. There are a lot of cuts to correct stumbles, and now I can’t tell what sounds best because I don’t even know what the effect is that is applied to each clip.
I can tell that FCP is referencing the effects because I am having to render audio with just 3 tracks, despite all tracks showing no filters. What is happening? Any suggested fixes? I know Soundtrack Pro would be a better option, but I don’t have a lot of time and I’m not really well versed in it yet. I have tried adjusting Audio Quality level with no differences.
Dual 2.5 G5
FCP 5.0.4
OS 10.4.3
Decklink Extreme
Blackmagic Uncompressed 8-bit
Promax SATA Max RAID -
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The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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Did this just start happening when you upgraded to FCP 5.04? Or was it happening before?
Just wondering if this is only a problem in the newest FCP.
thanks
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Just since the upgrade that I’ve noticed. I moved the audio render to a seperate RAID and trashed the preferences again(I had done it 2 days ago) and I seem to be having less issues. Don’t know which helped.
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