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POOF!!! (-or- the case of the spontaneously disappearing clips)
Just finished cutting a low/no budget 80 min. doc on friday (yayaay!)
Producer/director called me today to say that on playback there are about 30 clips which are either missing their audio tracks or are missing entirely (booooo!).The lowdown:
-Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD running on an ibook G4 with two external media drives (at the start of the project I warned the producer that the ibook was not robust enough to cut a feature length film).
– Put the film together in a series of sequences, then strung those sequences together, re-rendered everything, and discovered that FCP had taken a frame out here and there. Sometimes between hard cuts, sometimes around dissolves, wherein the frame was either taken out of the video or audio clips unsynching them. Re-re-rendering produced the same results. Switched the scratch disk too, just for kicks. Worked around this the old fashioned way by going through each cut and fixing. GRRRRRR . . .
— Because I went thru each and every bleeping cut, I know those clips were in good form when I passed the machine off late late Friday night.
— Don’t believe its a media issue as the clips are NOT missing on the original sequences.
— Have poked around the Cow as well as FCP over at Apple with no luck.Anyone? Any ideas? Am a relative newbie at this editing thing and this is my first major project on FCP (mostly work with Avid), so forgive me if I’ve missed something obvious. I’m leaning towards the ibook being the culprit.
Any help would be much much appreciated.
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3 Replies
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Did you do an Audio Mixdown before you made your tapes?
It’s different than an Avid Audio Mixdown. It creates a render file, it doesn’t create a separate media file that would replace your audio tracks like Avid does.
It is a crucial step in outputting from FCP. It’s Option+Command+R. You should do it whenever you make a tape or export to QuickTime.
Hope this helps.
debe
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Thanks for your input, Debe.
The disappearing clips, sometimes audio and sometimes audio AND video, occur in the actual master sequence while being played in the FCP timeline. For reasons too complicated to go into, the producer didn’t have me output at all.
I’ll be sure to “Option+Command+R” when outputting time comes round though.
Cheers, Anju
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I have found that if you take the clips offline, and then re-link them, the dissappearing clip problem goes away.
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