Dropped Audio to Quicktime from FCP

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Before you export again, try this:
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Don Greening]

Bruce,

When did these audio problems start? After you switched to Quicktime 7? Have you done any projects that turned out fine (no audio issues) using FCP4.5 and QT7? I just know that a lot of folks here have had to go back to QT6.5 running FCP 4.5 because they apparently don’t play nice together.

– Don

[Bruce]

I noticed this problem once I upgraded soundtrack to Pro and it required QT7. I could not go back to 6.X since I am in the middle of a huge project. However, the Mixdown solved the problem ( funny that I have used mixdown before and just forgot all about it!)

Thanks to all!