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FCP and Multitrack Location Sound Workflow
Current project involves synching up video with audio that was recorded separately on a PD-6 multitrack recorder. Have the files in FCP and thought it should be a piece of cake to sync up the audio and video using the merge function and setting in points on the clapboard. Well, turns out that when I do that the merged clips play the audio way out of sync. I think it has something to do with having more audio available then video, but I thought it didn’t matter. I thought it was supposed to sync them into one clip and if there was more audio at the head you would just see blank video. If I am doing something wrong here, please let me know.
I’m using FCP 4.5. The video was shot 24PA with a DVX100 and we are editing in a 24P timeline. Audio was recorded 24 Bit 48K.
Thanks,
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Might make things more standard… i.e. export the audio at 16 bits, and sync those exported files… and be using a 23.98fps sequence…? Just guessing, but figure it’s a mis match somewhere…
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I was hoping to use the 24Bit audio in FCP so that I can export that out to a 24Bit Pro Tools session, i.e. keeping everything in a 24Bit realm. But you may be onto something. The audio that was recorded with the video is 16bit 48K, and I’m now merging 24bit audio with it. Perhaps that is causing the shift.
The rushes were captured in long chunks, i.e. a full tape, unless there was a timecode break. I’ve been subclipping into shots and then attempting to merge my multitrack audio with those subclips creating an edit ready clip. What would be cool is if you could just subclip the video, and ignore the audio track that was recorded with it, but I’m guessing that’s not possible. Sounds like I’ll have to edit the video clips into a sequence and then do my multitrack synching in the timeline. Then do the merge from there. It would seem to be much faster to do merging from the browser because you just set the in point on each clip.
I’m open to more suggestions if there is another workflow I should explore.
Thanks,
Steve
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