B Wav files working in Final Cut Pro Projects

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t believe that version of FCP supported Broadcast WAVE files. I don’t think that introduced until 5.1 or later.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Henninc]

hi there,

you could use sebsky tools:
https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/

which is free…

hope that helps,
henning

[Will Salley]

Tom is correct. 5.0.4 does not display BWF timecode. Sebsky tools works but it requires an extra step or two. If you plan on doing a lot of work with BWFs, it’s worth the $49 crossgrade (which runs out pretty soon I think) for FCP 5.1.2.

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[Anders Haavie]

5.1.2 or https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/BWF2XML/index.html will solve this

Anders

[Andreas_kiel]

Hi,

As the author of BWF2XML some notes here.
It’s worth to spend the money for the upgrade to 5.1.2. But you should be aware of the way 5.1.2 does read the BWF time stamp.
Like all other packages it looks for the “Samples Since Midnight”. Those samples will be converted to seconds and partial seconds by diving them thru the files sample rate. The seconds will be converted to TC based on the TC rate settings FCP had at launch time. This will work fine in most cases, it won’t work with DF timecodes since FCP internally doesn’t and never did support DF timecode for audio.
The latter will lead to some problems; your files will run out of synch (though this is not a real problem with short clips, since you won’t notice the 0.1 percent drift) and you’ll get the wrong timecode.

Regards
Andreas

Andreas Kiel

Spherico
Nelkenstr. 25
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Tel.: +49 (0)721 183 9753
eFax: +1 650 897 8094

eMail: kiel@spherico.com
https://spherico.com/filmtools — some workflow tools for FCP

[Andreas_kiel]

Hi,

As the author of BWF2XML some notes here.
It’s worth to spend the money for the upgrade to 5.1.2. But you should be aware of the way 5.1.2 does read the BWF time stamp.
Like all other packages it looks for the “Samples Since Midnight”. Those samples will be converted to seconds and partial seconds by diving them thru the files sample rate. The seconds will be converted to TC based on the TC rate settings FCP had at launch time. This will work fine in most cases, it won’t work with DF timecodes since FCP internally doesn’t and never did support DF timecode for audio.
The latter will lead to some problems; your files will run out of synch (though this is not a real problem with short clips, since you won’t notice the 0.1 percent drift) and you’ll get the wrong timecode.

Regards
Andreas

Andreas Kiel

Spherico
Nelkenstr. 25
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Tel.: +49 (0)721 183 9753
eFax: +1 650 897 8094

eMail: kiel@spherico.com
https://spherico.com/filmtools — some workflow tools for FCP