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musical madness
I’m editing music tracks into my piece which have been copied from a cd. IVE DONE THIS A MILLION TIMES, TOO. They are all in aiff format. FCP 6…
Here’s the issue: I blade a song where I want to fade the music down, throw in a 20 frame audio dissolve, playback, and continue editing. Everything sounds fine.Later, for no apparent reason, when I come back to the same song and play it, half the song has a blue line at the top of the track, the other half has a green one, and all of a sudden the music starts “skipping” to other areas of the song. For some reason FCP is changing my edits…WHY? The only other time I see these colored lines it means I have duplicate footage..what does it mean here?
Any help greatly appreciated as this edit is for national broadcast.
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3 Replies
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Sounds like the sample rate doesnt match the sequence sample rate. Your sequence sample rate is most likely 48k….CD’s are natively at 44.1k.
The blue line area is rendered…and is probably playing fine.
The green line are is un-rendered and FCP is trying to sample rate convert on the fly…and not doing a good job of it.Instead of rendering inside FCP or relying on FCP to sample rate convert on the fly, its better to convert the songs to 48k Stereo Uncompressed AIFF files using Compressor, iTunes or Quicktime Player before bringing them into FCP.
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Also….be sure and check the file format of the problem music…its possible to mess up settings and create a compressed AIFF file…which would also be problematic.
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thanx a ton.
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