Cant play 44Khz clips – NO SOUND.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

They SHOULD play just fine, however…

An “available on every Mac” method is to use iTunes to resample CD and mp3 audio to 48 kHz.

QT PRO works fine… but iTunes is also a simple ready process after the initial set-up presets:
iTunes > Preferences > Importing > AIFF> Custom > 48.000 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo >OK

Once these are set, you won’t have to set them again.

Put a CD in the Mac (or use a imported audio file that’s already on the HD), open it up in iTunes, click once on the track you need, and choose:
Advanced > Convert Selection to AIFF.

Works VERY fast and stores new 48 kHz file in the iTunes library. You can just “drag and drop” this new file (.aif) onto your open FCP Browser.

[Rafael Amador]

Yes, just make an .aiff with I-Tunes, with Compressor or exporting QT. 48 Khz, 16 bits.
Any way all the .aiff, waw, etc (PCM) should play fine in FC even being 44Khz. Try setting the Audio Playback prefernces to low.
Salud,
Rafael

[Jeremy Doyle]

I think the problem you are running into is your mpeg1 clips are muxed and you should use a program like mpeg streamclip ( I believe this is free) to demux your mpeg clip. It will also convert it to a dv file to match the rest of your clips. FCP won’t play the audio in an mpg if the audio is muxed.

[Rennie Klymyk]

Mpeg 1 or video cd and s-video cd uses audio layer 2 or mp2 audio format. It is getting less and less common these days for dvd although many players have the decoder. You need to verify the audio file type and decode it to aiff.