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P2 Media & Dual System Sound
Hello Everyone
I ran into a peculiar situation –
– Editing P2 Media, shot with On Camera mic on.
– Entire film as shot using Dual System.
– Managed to sync footage with additional audio tracks, resulting in 1 clip with 5 video tracks.The problem comes whenever I try to bring that clip into the timeline – it only imports the first 4 audio tracks. I have changed sequence settings to 5.1, but did not help. When I click and drag the clip over to the timline, I get a preview for all five tracks, however when the clip is released, only 4 audio tracks are laid down.
Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Rodrigo
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1 Reply
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Hi Rodrigo,
That’s something which is not really loved by Final Cut Pro.
To work around do the following. But all your P2 clips in a timeline and unlink AV then bring in your external audio and sync them with the video. Cut leading and trailing audio (that’s a bit more save and makes standard editing easier as the resulting clip will have continuous timecode.
When you’re done, drag all those clips into a new bin. Double click the bin to open it in separate window.
For this window create new browser column layout which doesn’t include the AV track settings but all other columns which show the metadata you need (you may save that for later use) now export this bin as Batch List. Then Batch Export all the clips in this bin. Close Final Cut Pro ( there is a stupid bug there with Final Cut Pro, that it won’t re-import batch exported clips right after they are done).
Then open your project, import the batch list and re-connect the files.
Something where many people here won’t agree here is to transcode P2 with video and audio to separate files, especially if you want to use the files with linking external audio to them.Regards
AndreasSpherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
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