playback video freezes but audio continues

[Chris Poisson]

Jean,

Without knowing your project or system settings, here’s a few guesses:

Your canvas and/or viewer are not at fit to window or may be overlaping your timeline.

Under View you are not set to view all frames.

Also under View, your video playback may not be set correctly.

Also under View try refreshing audio visual devices.

Lastly under the FCP menu check your playback device settings.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Navig8r]

I have the same problem during capture. I originally thought it was just the playback, but it’s in the capture. I’ve had to manually go in and sync the audio after ech video stick.

Why would the capture video stick and the audio be fine?

thanx