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Multiclip – no audio in Viewer after cutting into timeline?
OK, I’m losing my mind on this: I set up a multicam clip. 6 angles & CD music based on In points. Each video clip has audio from studio playback. Music clip is master audio. Playing fine in Viewer. Cut it into a new sequence and immediately the multiclip in the Viewer loses audio playback. All clips are still in sync, but I can’t hear any audio, from any clip. I RTFM’d until my head spun, but the only thing that appears relevant is: “However, independently switching video or audio angles breaks linking relationships between a multiclip
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And then I try to make a 2nd multiclip from some of the same sources, but with different In points, and now the 1st multiclip is all whacked out of sync! What’s with that??
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Forget last problem – I didn’t create subclips for the new multiclip 1st.
So other than the audio question, I guess what’s eluding me is the relationship between the multiclip in the Browser & the one edited into the timeline.
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What do you have the playhead sync pop up menu set to?
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Open.
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I think we’re encountering a similar problem – the audio doesn’t always appear in the viewer when we match frame the multiclip angle.
I know this will seem a bit cumbersome, but I wanted to describe our workflow, since it involves so many steps. Our show was primarily filmed with 3 or 4 Viper cameras for practically every set up. A telecine facility took HDCAM SR clones of the master tapes and captured complete camera rolls into FCP version 5. We’re using the DVPRO HD 1080i60 compressor. Since we don’t want to edit with the master camera rolls, I’m subclipping each roll into scenes and takes. Then I export the subclips and reimport as final cut pro movies which reference the qt media of the master camera rolls. I then proceed to group each take together into multiclips.
We’re finding that as we edit, if we break the link between video and audio on our timeline (a preference), overwrite or replace a clip, or change the picture in the sequence only (not the audio), save our work, quit, and relaunch, the match frame to multiclip angle becomes erratic. In order for it to work, the video and audio need to be linked in the timeline; however, it becomes a problem if the video and audio aren’t from the same take in the viewer.
Any suggestions?
Ian
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