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Sound mix in FCP/Soundtrack pro
Hello,
I have a question regarding the best procedure to follow to improve a sound mix.
I have a cut of a short movie which lasts approximately 25 minutes and uses around 100 clips. When it was recorded, there was a rough stereo sound mix sent to the cameras and I did the first version of the cut using this sound mix.
Now I have access to the individual audio tracks (5 tracks, recorded using Pro tools and converted to OMF) and I think I can get a much better mix than the one that was sent to the camera.
My question is about what you would think the best procedure to follow would be in this case. I can see two ways of doing this, and find both very labor intensive and wonder if there is a better/more canonical way of doing this:
* For each .dv clip, erase the original soundtrack, and replace it by a newly mixed one. I would do this by putting each clip in its own sequence, adding the audio mix rendering and exporting to a .dv file. This would take some time.
* Delete the audio track of the final cut and try to mix the audio there directly.
Is there a better way to achieve this altogether? Are there any potential pitfalls to either of these approaches that I need to be aware of?
Thanks!
–Robert
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1 Reply
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Firstly FCP doesn’t import OMFs so the multi track files should be sourced directly, preferably as broadcast wav.
Secondly, find someone with an up to date Fairlight running dream2 software. A newish feature is the ability to relink a stereo file to multi track files and import the missing tracks into a project. Important to the process is that the original files were broadcast wav and had the same timecode as the multi track broadcast wavs.
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