Removing Audio from Clips Before Bringing Them In

[Tom Wolsky]

Use the patch panel to disconnect a1 and a2 from the assigned destination tracks. Then you will only edit in the picture.

All the best,

Tom

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[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Turn “off” the audio track select buttons on the Timeline.

[Sdelahoyde]

Maybe I didn’t phrase it correctly. I’m trying to get rid of the audio before it even hits the timeline. I’m sick of bringing in 8 empty tracks. I’d like to bring in JUST the video and nothing else.

[Sean Oneil]

Why don’t you just capture video only? In log and capture. Pretty self-evident. Your options are “Video”, “Audio” or “Video and Audio”.

[Sdelahoyde]

Yeah, I’ll plan to do that in the future, but I had to return the camera this morning to the rental house, so I’m stuck with what I’ve got. Just wondering if there’s a solution. It did help to unlock all the tracks, which no longer lets audio come in, but I still have to have all eight of those tracks left open.

[Sean Oneil]

I mean, you could “Export -> Quicktime Movie” and choose video only. Then manually re-assign the original timecode to the new clip. But I don’t see how that could possibly be worth the effort.

[Kevin]

Lock the audio tracks on the timeline by hitting “shift 5”. Otherwise recapture w/o audio.

[Alison Spray]

I don’t know the FCP Media Manger well enough to tell you steps to take but I can translate what Avid would do. With Avids Media Tool you delete the actual media files – and you can select just audio or just video files of the clip. Gets rid of it once and for all. Does anyone know if Media Manager does this – that will give OP what he’s looking for I think….

[Martin Baker]

You can do this in QuickTime Player.

– Open the movie
– Cmd-J to open the properties window
– Select the Sound Track(s)
– Click Delete button
– Save the movie

Martin
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[David Heidelberger]

Hello,

Hope this isn’t too late. I saw your post the other day and I’ve had the same problem in the past (it’s so easy to forget to uncheck the extra audio tracks). You can delete the tracks in Quicktime but it’s a real pain doing it file by file. So I decided to do something about it. I wrote a little program that allows you to batch delete audio tracks from Quicktime movies. Hope you find it helpful. It’s up on my site. It’s the one called Audio Track Batcher:

https://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.html

Best
– David