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Sound on raw QT but not when in FCP
Hello
I find this very bizarre… Why is it when i play back what i digitized in QuickTime player, all the sound is there and fine…. When i import the file into FCP (HD 4.5) there is no sound at all!!! No wavelength, no audio signal at all. I’ve tried the file-import, and dragging into time line, everything… sound just disappears when the file opens in FCP.
This has not happened before and for some reason only to 3 tapes.Any one got any suggestions? Am i being a fool?
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6 Replies
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Post more about your problem… you’ve captured from tape to what codec? Using what machine/camera etc..?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Hi Jerry,
I used Easy Setup- DV-PAL. Cant remember the deck i used, but i’ve used it before plenty of times and no previous issue.
I think i need to try re-digitizing it again. I cant think of anything else.
Could this be the case? …. even though there’s sound on the capture scratch opened in quicktime player? ? -
I’ve never seen your issue exactly… I’d recapture and move on… But be sure that you’re capturing 48khz audio if the recording is reported by the player at 16 bit, Otherwise, it’s 12 bit audio and you need to capture at 32kHz 16 bit in FCP.
MIght try rebuilding a clip in FCP as a self contained QT movie. A reference movie might work too because they contain stereo audio tracks always.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Without knowing your machine specs, my guess would be you are using a version of quicktime that is not compatible with FCP 4.5.
This is what I encountered when I digitized some stuff at work and brought the clips to my old home machine. In quicktime they played fine, but the audio was not there in FCP 4.5.
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Sound about right. Thank you for your response. I can’t tell you yet how it’s been resolved because my charger exploded over the weekend. Waiting for a new one to arrive.
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I dealt with it by opening the quicktimes in soundtrack, exporting the audio as mono and relinking the video with the new audio tracks in FCP. It took a while, but worked just fine since I didn’t have a way to recapture the footage at home.
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