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Canon EOS C300 mxf files – audio component import issue
Good morning everyone,
Just in the early stages of a project that requires intercutting footage from my C300 MkII and one of my C300’s. An interesting issue arose with the C300 b-roll for this shoot. All clips imported fine except for the longest one (just over 5 mins) – although the ‘silhouette’ of the audio could be seen inside the audio inspector, the clip played as mute in both the Browser and on the Timeline. The original 2 subclips (mxf format) both played the associated audio correctly, from a Finder window, still resident on the CF card.
I tried the usual things – delete and re-import the clip, relaunch FCPX, another re-import. No change. I then dragged the 2 subclips (using Finder window operation) from camera card to the drive folder containing imported media, and when I reimported from there, the assembled .mov clip is all good – audio playing normally.
I offer this up as an interesting phenomenon, as I could not find any solutions for this issue online. If anyone has a theory as to what the underlying cause is, it would be interesting to hear it.
All the best, Grant.
Grant Peacock
Washington DC
GPI TV LLC -
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You are saying the import window results in no audio, but a direct drag and drop works?
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Jeremy, that is correct.
Isn’t that interesting?
And it’s just an issue for this one clip, surrounded as it were on the card by multiple other b-roll clips. No problems with any of them as I string everything out for b-roll on the Timeline. Repeating the import process thru the FCP X window reliably produces the muted clip.
And what’s with the silhouette of the waveform being visible?
Grant.
Grant Peacock
Washington DC
GPI TV LLC -
Is the clip long or spanned?
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