Phantom audio pops in FCP 7

[David Roth weiss]

[cosmo jarvis] “The sequence settings are set to 44.1 because all my externally recorded audio was recorded that way, so i figured it’d be easier to change that than convert all my audio to 48Khz. “

Not good Cosmo!

FCP operates natively using 48khz audio, and you should get out of the mindset that converting properly to 48khz is a burden.

You can set iTunes to automatically convert all of the 44.1khz audio files you import to 48khz.

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[Cosmo Jarvis]

Thank you very much for your reply,
I have some further questions:

If I do convert all my 44.1 files to 48 after I have completed my cut, can I then reconnect the 44.1 versions of the files with the 48Khz versions?

Also, will the fact that the footage was captured with 48Khz audio make a difference to the relationship between the separately recorded 44.1 audio and the footage (if the 44.1 audio is removed from the sequence)?

I am so damn confused. Why does FCP give the option to work in 44.1 then?

from Cosmo

[Emily Maysilles]

In our case there was no sample rate or bit rate mismatch, so the only solution we could find was trashing the caches, including the Thumbnail Cache, which I don’t think I included on my list above.