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Print to Tape Audio Beeep!!!
Timeline editing via pro tools hd. but when exporting to tape we switch to firewire and record the output on the dsr25….but…. there is one audio clip at the end of the video that bleeps like crazy. It deosnt do this frm the timeline, only when printing to tape. I rendered everything… especially apple option r. but it still bleeps during that clip.
Of course we got a tape master by just recording the playback to the dsr 25, but it sure would be nice to use the print to tape feature.
any ideas why its not working?
fcp 4.5hd, g-5 dual,
tnx
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This is just a guess but FCP is telling you that the offending audio is not optimized for 16bit 48Khz, but is in a lower bit/sample rate. If you go to user prefs make sure the audio is set for high quality play back. Once that’s set you should see the render bar for the lower bit rate audio file in the timeline turn red. Just render out the audio before you use the print to tape command.
– Don
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In addition to Don’s good thinking…
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 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.
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