FCP 7 audio

[Aaron Smith]

i noticed that some clips i have are 48khz and some read at 47999hz…so there is the difference.
how does that happen? it is the camera it was shot in? the deck i captured it from?

[Nicole Haddock]

>48kHz has always been considered the professional sample rate.
Right.
>If you import a file with a different sample rate from FCP’s setting, you’ll have to render.
That wasn’t the case with a project I was working with 2 weeks ago (and all the months before it) in FCS2 and even 1. I’ve been dragging .AIFF files off of stock music cds, importing the folder into FCP, and dunking those files into the timeline without ever having to render. .MP3s (gag) yes of course. .AIFF? nope… I just did it again (to make sure I wasn’t remembering wrong) on one of our FCS2/6.0 systems with a .WAV and .AIFF file both at 44.1kHz and nope, don’t need to render.

Why FCP, why fix what’s not broken?

[Aaron Smith]

Thanks Fred, the i think the foxy tunes add on for firefox is what was competing with fcp during renders, captures, etc.

as for my audio, just wondering why some came in at 48khz, and some came in at 47999hz

[John Fishback]

It’s probable that someone set your FCS 2 FCP to 44.1 kHz. Check the sample rate in your Sequence Settings – Audio Settings. I suspect it’s 44.1kHz on your FCS2 computer and 48kHz on the FCS3 computer.

John

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[Nicole Haddock]

That’s not it, because all the video I ingest is P2 media recorded at 48. It’s just weird voodoo, because 2/3 fcp7 machines will get the render bar for mixed 44/48. The fcp6 machines don’t. There’s one fcp7 machine that will re-name the sequence if you paste in a graphic from another sequence with the graphic name. Not terribly handy little bug 😉 And yes, both machines had a clean OS install, clean FCP7 install, done by the book. I love new software!