FCP to Soundtrack Roundtrip not working

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

FCP to Soundtrack Roundtrip not working

Posted by Josh Sapir on December 8, 2010 at 12:59 am

Hey all, wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this problem and if anyone my have found a solution.

I am editing a short video with sequence settings (960×720, 23.98, ProRes 422) FCP version 7.0.3, Soundtrack version 3.0.1

My first bit of trouble occurred when I: Right clicked > Send to > Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project and encountered the “the render.mov file cannot be opened.” warning. I dumped my preferences and re-rendered the timeline and after some trouble was able to get the audio file to finally open in Soundtrack.

The second problem occurred after I applied my effects within Soundtrack, saved the file (reference source audio), and went back into FCP. Final Cut crashed immediately with this problem report:

Process: Final Cut Pro [3704]
Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro
Version: 7.0.3 (7.0.3)
Build Info: FCPApp-1008261348~8
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [143]

Date/Time: 2010-12-07 17:39:02.455 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: -81197 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 80390 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 9
Anonymous UUID: A6B42212-1000-44A3-B0F0-945B41225602

Exception Type: EXC_ARITHMETIC (SIGFPE)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero)
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 …ickTimeComponents.component 0x91df9193 TimeCodeFrameNumberToTimeCode + 145

Console Reads:

12/7/10 5:38:45 PM Soundtrack Pro[3740] WARNING: -[NSProVideoTimecode setCustomVideoFrameRate:] passed invalid frames per second: -0.000000. Using 30 fps.

I have set and reset my project settings in Soundtrack to reflect the 23.98 sequence. Trashed preferences in Soundtrack and FCP several times. Re-installed Soundtrack. Dumped any and all 3rd party audio filters. Moved my FCP sequence into a new project and nothing seems to work.

Any ideas? Is this a fps issue like I think it is? Do I have a corrupt file somewhere?

Thanks in advance,
Josh

Mac OSX 10.6.5, Processor 2×2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Josh Sapir replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
3 Replies

Michael Gissing
December 8, 2010 at 2:21 am

Whilst the error report suggests a frame rate problem, 920 x 720 is an unusual frame size. Just to try, chcange Easy Setup to 1920 x 1080 ProRes422 23.98. Copy>paste just the audio into the timeline. Try an export to STP from a bog standard 23.98 timeline without the added complication of pics.
Josh Sapir
December 8, 2010 at 4:37 pm

I will definitely try a different sequence setting once this message “The document “render.mov” could not be opened.” stops popping up.

Thanks,
Josh
Josh Sapir
December 8, 2010 at 6:37 pm

Just an update. I am now confident the problem is not with Soundtrack but with FCP. I opened another project that has the same settings, sent out to soundtrack and round-tripped with no issues.

I think there must be an issue with a clip within the timeline.

I even exported an XML and re-imported into a brand new project and still had FCP crash.

Not sure it is worth going through the sequence clip by clip to find the problem.

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