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Missing audio
We’ve been importing some VO footage and yesterday we had no problem with getting both audio and video tracks into the timeline; today we can only get the video tracks to drop into the timeline… no idea why the audio won’t stay with it. In testing other footage from our bin we don’t have a problem, so I don’t think it’s the settings… what’s going on? Do we need to re-import the footage?
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Erika
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It sounds like you just don’t have the little source icons (to the left of the timeline) touching the destination icons for the audio tracks you want to put in the time line. Also, make sure that no audio is currently in the same area of the audio tracks you want to bring it into.
Tony!
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We checked all of that; no luck… anything else we should look for? Or just re-import?
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how are you trying to add them to the timeline? Through the viewer or browser? Do you have autoselect on?
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Through the viewer; unclear about autoselect? Again, the footage (both audio and video tracks) that was working before is no longer working; yet we can grab other clips out of the bin and they are going into the timeline just fine (both audio and video tracks) without changing any settings or doing anything differnetly… we’ve even tried working with the clips on a new timeline with the same results… is there a way to know if footage is somehow corrupted?
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Alright, I’m sorry, I’m a little perplexed. You were importing VO clips, you mean from an aif file or off of a tape? And when you try to add this VO file (which is audio only?) you can’t? You have double clicked it to load it in the viewer, and what happens? Can you play the audio there? Do you see a waveform?
Jeremy
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It’s from a tape; it plays both audio and video in the viewer (although video in is choppy)… I just checked and the waveform is gone (in the viewer) but as I mentioned, we can still hear the audio. How is that possible? Thanks for your time on this one…
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That doesn’t seem right. What kind of media drives do you have and how full are they? Do you have a capture card? Can’t you recapture the offending clip?
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I agree, it’s odd – and yes, our media drives are pretty full (we’re at the end of editing a 90-minute rough-cut of a documentary). I’ll go ahead and re-import the footage! Thanks for your help!
Erika
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Have you tried trashing your preferences? Check out FCP Rescue (use it after you generate new prefs to restore them instantly the next time) if you don’t use it already – it’s free, too.
Also you might want to Repair Permissions on your startup drive with Disk Utility.
You may have done these already, but you haven’t mentioned it, so… Hope any of that helps.pvw
Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-ProductionG5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / 2x250GB SATA / OS 10.4.7 / FCP 5.1.1 / QT 7.1.2
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