FCP editing for CD

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FCP editing for CD

Posted by Pat Defilippo on February 21, 2007 at 8:04 pm

Hi all!

On Friday (2/23), I’m recording a 6-hour audio-only continuing education program for mental health providers. I’m recording to both a MacBook Pro and DAT. Usually, the edited version ends up on four CDs with an overall length of about 4.5 hours.

The question is this: can you use Chapter Markers within each of the four 1+ hour timelines to define the tracks on the CD or do you have to edit each track on different Timelines, export to AIFF and then sequence them in a program like Toast or iTunes (taking out the 2-second pauses between tracks)?

Plus, anyone know of any duplicators or duplication systems that they would recommend? I’m going to need 1000 copies of the four CDs.

Thanks in advance!
-Pat

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Pat Defilippo replied 19 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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Bret Williams
February 21, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Do you mean DVDs?
Pat Defilippo
February 21, 2007 at 8:19 pm

Hi Bret,

No, not DVDs but audio-only CDs.

Thanks,
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs, Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671
Pat Defilippo
February 21, 2007 at 8:27 pm

…unless you were referring to a duplication system that does both DVDs and CDs. Then, any referrals that does both would be greatly appreciated!

For this job, though, regarding my FCP editing question, the 4.5 hours will be on four audio-only CDs.

Thanks again,
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs, Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671
Ryanservant
February 21, 2007 at 8:52 pm

Disc Makers is really fast and easy to deal with.
Zak Mussig
February 22, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Pat,

You’ll have to do the second thing you mentioned. Why not use Soundtrack to deal with your audio? Use one multi-track project, and put each track for your CDs in a separate track. Solo whichever one you want to work with at any given time. When you’re done just click the first track and shift-click the last to select all of them and then select file>export> selected tracks. They’ll export with the track names as file names, so just make sure those names mean something to you.

Hope that helps,
Zak
Pat Defilippo
February 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Hi Bret, Ryan and Zak,

Thanks for the help! I did get a quote from Disc Makers, too, which looks good but it is the highest price at the same time.

Zak, I’d consider putting this together in SoundTrack Pro but I’ve got tons of editing to get rid of “um”s, “ah”s, coughs (the presenter had a cold, too), long pauses, double-start and etc. I’m so used to editing in FCP that I didn’t even consider STP. Would STP be even better for audio edtiing than FCP? I’ve really only used STP for normalizing levels, but I’ve even abandond that since learning more about the compressor/limiter filter within FCP.

Thanks again!
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~~~

P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs, Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671

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