Distorted audio on import

[Craig Seeman]

Try listening to each channel separately. They may be summing. Try panning Ch1 left and Ch2 right.

[Craig Sawchuk]

Tried that but the waveforms are just like building blocks and all that comes out is digital hiss.

[Craig Seeman]

Try playing the clips (EX XDCAM .mov) in Quicktime. That’ll tell you if the problem is FCP specific. You may need to trash preferences.

[Clint Fleckenstein]

Ditto on that. You’d be amazed at the way Final Cut (or a Mac in general, really) can behave when it gets a preferences file corrupted. Sadly it’s not a very rare occurrence. I just had a late night session where I had to push something out via Firewire and got nothing but digital garbage on both audio tracks (but video was perfect). You guessed it: preferences. There’s also some sort of MediaIO plist file that might have to hit the trash, too…depending on your issue.

Cf

[Craig Sawchuk]

Managed to get the audio back by opening the files in Soundtrack and then saving the audio to AIFF and reimporting them into FCP. Crazy… I will try the preference file replacement too.

Craig

[Don Greening]

[Craig Sawchuk] ” I will try the preference file replacement too.”

When you decide to do it go here first for a free program that will trash the preferences for you:

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

– Don

Don Greening
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com

[Rafael Amador]

Craig,
As per what you wrote in the FC forum, you should add here that you are try to work with MFX files in FC.
Thats not the standard workflow. If you don’t tell the full story people won’t pick the full picture.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Craig Sawchuk]

Good point. Aren’t XDCAM files MXF? I guess I was under the impression that they were one and the same once they are on the HD. Also the Sony import utility could play them flawlessly.

Craig