Final Cut Pro – MultiClip – Audio not syncing

[Gerard Pelle]

Hi

Same problem.

If i click on ”Item properties”, my audio is ”slug is offline”.

My multiclips work on my FCP 7.0.3 on my macbookpro but are out of sync and offline on my MacPro tower, on FCP 7.0.

Thanks

[Gerard Pelle]

Hi resolved the problem.

I had 2 mute video and 5 external audio (boom, ch1 ch2, ambient). So, i merged each one video tracks with audio and then i maked multiclip with the two clips merged at the IN point. That’s it!

I worked with copies of original clips in a different bin and I didn’t delete this bin. It works great!.

AppleProRes 442 LT, Audio Wav 24bit 48 khz.

FCP 7.0.3 on Mac Book Pro Lion 2,5 Ghz Intel Core i7 8GB ram 1333 Mhz DDR 3

Happy!!

Gerard

[Chelsea Wagner]

Multi cam bites in fcpx. I have the same issue with an audio clip drifting out of sync. And the clips in sync in the multi cam view and not dropping in sync in the project. Finally after a lot of time playing with it I got some progress. First I found that some of the clips don’t perfectly sync. If you slide the start of the clip over and re-sync usually on the first try it finds the right place. I tried to retime a clip in FCPX and once it did it (it worked for the audio) but it turned off the auto sync function for any more clips I wanted to drop in.

Oh yes that was after I had to redo the multi cam clip from scratch matching the five cameras first then dropping in the audio which does funky stuff with the project as you drop in the clips.

I really wish with all the billions that apple has that they dump a bunch of money into software. With there capital they could more than rule….. Still working on the project. Found that if I add transitions in the project it dips the audio level and there is no option to turn it that off that I can find. So I have to make a multi clip and drop that into a new project spit the audio off and drop the transitions in. And hope I don’t have to adjust any clips or I have to start that allover again. Etc…..

Are we having fun yet?

[Jaqai Mickelsen]

I’m surprised this thread is still earning response. If anything it helps me to feel like, “great. I wasn’t losing my mind after all.”

Since then, I’ve actually pretty much made the full leap to premiere pro – and I haven’t ran into these kinds of issues. I mean, there has been issues, but nothing quite as blatantly “what…the heck is going on?” as this one was.

[Chelsea Wagner]

I have to look at premier pro. I finally figured out the sync thing. I was an issue with the recorder breaking up the audio into clips with actual time gaps between the clips. That ended up because of a obscure setting on the recorder. Once I broke up the clips and synced them individual to the scratch tracks; actually going back and forth between scratch tracks and the different audio tracks the sync it worked great.

Chelsea

[Sascha Stanton-craven]

Hey guys –

THINK I HAVE A SOLUTION THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND.

First, the problem:
I’ve had a similar issue – two identical cameras and separately recorded audio. We recently got a new mixer/recorder, so maybe that has something to do with the problem, but not sure. Basically, I can merge audio with either video track and pull it into the timeline and it’s fine. But if I merge the audio with either video track then multiclip that merged clip to the other video angle and pull the resulting multiclipped, merged track into the timeline the audio tracks sort of spread out and don’t line up at all.

SOLUTION:

After a lot of tinkering, I found that if I switched the active angle in the multiclip before dragging it to the timeline, it was fine. The angle that preserves the audio/video relation is the one that was a) merged and b) first alphabetically. Don’t know which of these things matter, if either, but as long as I do this, it’s fine. Still trying to figure out why. Hope this helps someone.

[Evan Kultangwatana]

go wes. thanks, man. saved me!

[Sascha Stanton-craven]

Ha, what’s up, dude! Fancy seeing you here. Glad it helped/hope you’re well!

[Michelle Patterson]

This worked for me (stacking on the timeline) however if you matchback the audio and grab the audio from the viewer with the drag hand it creates a sub-clip. I found that if the audio is a sub-clip it causes the audio to be out of sync. It has to be a clip.

To do that drag the audio from a synced timeline so it is a “CLIP” rather than a “SUBCLIP” (which will screw up the sync) and then double click on the audio clip in the browser and remove the in point. Then do a multiclip.