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Editing Audio – Soundtrack and / or Final Cut?
I am a former audio engineer doing some editing in FCP 6. I have always been frustrated with trying to do even basic clean up of audio from events.
I have an hour long clip of a woman at a podium. I simply want to do a slight dip in EQ somewhere around 300 HZ and apply a low cut filter. Then I want gentle compression/limiting just to take the peaks off a few places where applause is too loud.
I first try this in FCP. The problem is when I add the filters I have to render the audio before I can hear it- nothing even close to real time.And the parameter controls are not particularly standard. The FCP manual says little specifics about controls. For example “Q”,. Its numbered 1-20. Is that 1 through 20 octaves or what do those numbers mean? Bummer.
So I send the whole thing to soundtrack. It takes about 8-9 minutes to open this hour long file. Then I apply things I want but it crashes – twice. jeesh.
has anyone found a reasonably clean straightforward way to do basic stuff like this without jumping through hoops?
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I am not incredibly technical but Soundtrack should be able to handle this and contains all of the filters that you mentioned and you can listen in real time. What kind of system are you running because it shouldn’t be crashing like that. I would try again, or if you are working on a slower system make sure that you are not trying to run a lot of programs at once because this could be slowing you down more. But since you have experienced crashing, if you get it working, obviously remember to save, save, save. good luck.
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thanks for your input
i should have included the configuration:
currently running a Mac Pro 3GHz quad core with 4 GB of RAM, 750 GB SATA drive for media with FCP 6.05 and Soundtrack 2.02
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