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Missing Audio Channels – DVCPRO HD (P2) in FCP 4.5
Here’s how it goes: Footage was shot on an HVX200, via P2, in 720p, 24N. This footage was converted to Quicktime files for use in FCP with Final Cut Universal, on another machine, weeks ago, by someone else. I now have all this footage on a 250GB firewire drive, and need to edit it on a DP 1Ghz. G4 (alright, laugh… it’s only for a week), running Final Cut HD. Obviously the project file itself would not run in this version of Final Cut, so, I grabbed all the MOV files, and threw them into a new project, created by FCP HD (4.5). The footage plays fine. Only problem is, the audio isn’t quite there. If I play the clips in Quicktime, outside FCP, all channels of audio are there, and plays with the interviews, etc. When the same clip is opened on the timeline, or in the Viewer, it sincerely believes there is only one track of audio, when, in reality, in Final Cut Universal, it comes up as four tracks of audio. I only need to edit for a week on this old machine… but, I need audio. Is there something wrong in my FCP settings, presets, or whatnots that could make Final Cut just not recognize those extra tracks of audio? Or is this just how it’s going to be, using this HVX200 footage in Final Cut HD?
Oh, I’m also running on Panther (not Liger), with Quicktime Pro 7.0.4.
Thanks for any help!
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Your problem is that they changed the way that Final Cut captures and recognizes audio. In Final Cut Pro HD only “two-channel audio capture was supported to a single QuckTime audio track. Therefore, older versions of Final Cut Pro can only recognize media files captured with a single stereo pair audio track.” (Final Cut Pro Manual I – pg 254). Basically, FCP HD can’t recognize the 4 channels of audio. Did they capture them as 2 stereo pairs or as 4 mono channels?
There is really only one thing that you can do if you have to edit with FCP HD. Use Final Cut 5 or Quicktime to export each movie with a single stereo pair. Quicktime may take a little bit of work to get it to do it and I’m not really sure about all the steps that you would have to go through.
HTH.
Leigh Thomas
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