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mute/solo audio
hi.
im using fcp 5. i have around 10 tracks of audio. when i click mute or solo (on the left of the timeline) to hear the tracks individually, nothing changes. the button highlights (red for solo, yellow for mute) but the audio from every track just keeps playing…
any advice on what could be wrong?
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If you have rendered or mixed down your audio, it will continue to play, because all tracks are ‘baked’ into the render file. You’ll need to cause them to become unrendered to solo the tracks.
Disabling then re-enabling the clips or tracks works well for this. Should not take long to re-render audio, if necessary. -
thanks john. you’re right, i hava all the audio rendered.. but i needed to have it all rendered because i was hoping to be able to play my edit, while muting/soloing tracks as it plays. but now when i mute/solo some tracks, then enable them again, they have been unrendered so im just hearing the ‘bleep’ noise.. is there any way around this, or am i hoping for too much?
thanks
ger -
the unrendered audio beeps may be caused by the format of your audio .. if its an unsupported format / something peculiar then you might want to transcode to a more suitable codec before editing with this footage … if it is simply because you have gone over out your default capacity for real time audio tracks then you might want to pay a quick visit to your FCP > User Preferences >> General tab (press Opt-Q) and then increase your Real-time Audio Mixing setting (default is 8 but is sounds like you need to push that up to 10 or 12)
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Why is this still a problem? I accidentally had my number of realtime audio tracks reset to a low number and when I returned it to match my number of tracks much of the audio indicated it needed to be rendered, which I did. Then I couldn’t solo any tracks- it would solo for a moment, until it hit a new clip in the timeline and then all the tracks would play again. Really odd. I turned on and off a track to un-render it (another crazy thing) and solo functions normally… buggy buggy buggy.
All’s well for now.Brian Berdan
migrant filmworkercurrently on a MacPro, using FCP 7.0.2, ProResLT from eSATA G-Raid (4 TB of incredible footage) and a now a Matrox MX02LE just to make it more complicated… love calibrating my projector though.
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