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missing audio and video
I am a beginner to Final Cut Pro 4, and I am having a reoccuring problem. Bits of my audio and video are missing. Yesterday, everything rendered fine, and then today, when I was playing back my sequence, there was no video or audio at certain points. This has happened a couple times over the last few weeks, and I have simply been redoing the whole sequence, but I am finally so frusturated. The lines above the timeline that are usually dark grey after you render, they will be missing corresponding to where my audio or video is missing. Rendering it does not help. I have been searching the internet all day looking for answers. Please help!
i know I probably sound stupid!
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There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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