Drifting audio problem

[Andrew Bernard]

Gotcha…. we will be making a DCP, but for that I will be bringing the original PT session to a 5.1 mix stage, so FCP should no longer be a factor (and the professionals there would be able to tame any weird sync problem better than me anyway!) I mainly need the mix to behave properly here in FCP for exporting stereo Quicktimes.

[Andrew Bernard]

Thanks again for your help!

[David Roth weiss]

Once you change the settings in Easy Setup you must open a new timeline – the old timeline will always carry the old Easy Setup settings.

And, I’ve forgotten if there’s an Easy Setup at 23.98 or 23.976 – shouldn’t your video frame rate be at set at one of those and not 24fps?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Andrew Bernard]

hi david,

ah! i did not know that about having to open a new timeline! so i would have needed to create a new sequence and import everything in from the existing one?

24 fps is our timebase because it is a purely 24 fps digital animation project with no telecine involved.

[David Roth weiss]

[andrew bernard] “ah! i did not know that about having to open a new timeline! so i would have needed to create a new sequence and import everything in from the existing one?”

Just remember, Easy Setups control ALL new timelines in FCP 7, while Sequence Settings do the very same thing, but only control the current sequence and and copies made from that sequence. In addition, once a sequence is open and contains footage, some of the important parameters, such as frame rate, can’t be changed in Sequence Settings – the ONLY way to change them is to change Easy Setup and open a new sequence, or open a new sequence and change the parameters before adding any clips.

These are BIG things to know in FCP, because as you’ve already discovered, if you don’t remember them you’ll be scurrying around in many wrong directions finding solutions to problems that don’t exist. And, these are so fundamental to FCP operation that most here on the Cow sometimes forget to mention them.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Jim Press]

YES!! This solution just saved me from insanity. We upgraded our editing systems a few months ago and switched from FCP7 to Adobe Premiere Pro, and in the move hadn’t gone back in to FCP and changed the default Easy Setup from NTSC to PAL (we are in Australia), so when I had to do some work on an old project, all the polished audio files had drifted from the raw audio linked to the video. Changing the Easy Setup to PAL and restarting as described above solved it. Thanks guys!

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