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Final Cut Pro 6.0 Strange Behavior
Hi there,
AUDIO
On several occasions while keeping the id/title of the original audio track from which it was edited FCP has replaced this audio in the sequence timeline with a completely different audio which is also in the project but at another point in the timeline. No one re-edited this audio like this. FCP randomly it seems chose this. This audio was not touched!!!We are also having complete words dropped out, phrases repeat themselves at points in the playback of a clip from the timeline and the timbre sounds off, as if the audio was slowed down somehow when we are printing to tape.
FONTS
Even though a font is selected in the text controls it is not displayed as that font in the timeline but as another font. This only changes when you select another font and then go and select the original font again. Other times even this work around does not help.We have installed these fonts using fontbook on the administrator profile of the computer. Is there something else that we need to do for FCP to recognize the correct font?
GENERAL WEIRDNESS
When selecting clips to move we have noticed that clips that were not selected have also moved. These clips did not have the brown color selected clips have when you click on them using the selection tool. The selection tool is the one we were using when we selected the clips to move. Why would clips that were not selected also move???We are working on an hour and 45 minutes documentary film using files that were captured in FCP 5.0.4.
Enquiring minds want to know…
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13 Replies
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Did you update to 6.0.1?
It sounds as if you have a serious problem in your computer. The audio issue has not been reported by others that I’ve seen. Nor the multiple selections problem.
What’s your media? How are you working with your audio and video?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I just experienced a similar audio issue with FCP 6.0.1.
I created five separate 30-minute sequences and then placed them into one long “master” sequence for laying out to a single tape. I left it last night to lay out to the deck, and when I checked tape this morning, there were several sections that had the wrong audio or no audio. When I play back the master sequence in FCP, I hear the same incorrect audio clips. When I play those same sections in the individual subsequences, they play fine. Right now I’m laying out the sequences one at a time to tape.
I have no clue what the fix is. Between this and the “Illegal Name” error I posted earlier today, I’m feeling too good about upgrading to FCP 6.
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Did you mixdown the individual sequences before putting hem in the master, and did you mix down the master sequence?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Hi Tom,
The sequences had two audio tracks and contained a simple assembly of clips laid end to end with stereo audio. There was no multitracking involved – just adjustment of audio levels within FCP. These sequences were then laid back to back into the master. I didn’t send any clips to Soundtrack. Does this answer your question?
Thanks,
Gabe
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Not really. Did you mixdown the audio in nests and in the master? If you did, this most likely would not happen.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I just read up on the mixdown command in the FCP manual – I didn’t know about it until now. It seems this renders all audio to a render file instead of playing back from the master media. I figured FCP would do this automatically when I selected Print to Video – is that not the case? This still seems like a bug if audio clips are out of sequence.
I can’t test whether your theory is correct, since after laying off the individual sequences, the master now plays back correctly. I’ll try it next time it comes up. Thanks for the tip!
-Gabe
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FCP 5.14 on a Q 2.5 G5 – OS 10.4.10
This system exhibits same audio symptom occassionally and we must reconnect the audio clips to solve it. The offending clips are showing a “rendered proxy” color on the problem section only, and no “color” on the correct portion of the same audio clip. After reconnecting, the entire clip shows no “color” rendering designation and plays correctly. It is almost never an entire clip that play incorrectly, just a section of the same clip that skips ahead or repeats.
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Just out of curiosity, were your initial capture of media short clips, or did you capture very long sections of media (say an entire tape?)
Were you cutting to your sequence from the master clips, or from subclips?
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There was an entire tape (an hour or so) of music videos cut up into subclips. The sequences contained these subclips as well as PNG and PSD full screen graphics with AIFF music beds. One oddity I noticed was that a few of the music videos had some of the AIFF music beds for audio instead of their own linked audio. There was also a set of graphics that had silence where there should have been AIFFs.
-Gabe
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short logged clips.
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