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Synching Audio in FCP, a quick workflow needed
I am commencing work on a low budget feature shot on Super16. As it is low budget, production couldnt afford to have the audio (BWF’s) synch’d at the lab. So we are synching the dual system audio in FCP 6.0.3 and are looking for ways of speeding up the process. We are being slowed down in 2 places.
1, FCP seems to automatically import the BWF’s as stereo if there is only 2 channels. Obviously we need them to be Dual Mono. This is a bit annoying as it means we have to make all the clips offline, then modify them to become dual mono and then reconnect.
Does anyone know of a way to force FCP to import them as Dual Mono in the first place? i cant find the setting anywhere, if it exists.
2, Because our telecine was 24@25, We have to speed up the audio by 4% before we synch it to film clip in the timeline. At the moment we have to speed them up 1 clip at a time because you cant ‘Apple J’ multiple clips. I have tried to paste attributes, but for some reason FCP doesnt consider ‘speed’ to be an attribute that you would want to paste into audio items.
So, does anyone know how we can speed up multiple clips by 4% in one go?
If anyone has answers to these two it would speed up our process significantly and be much appreciated.
Joe Wilby
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[Joe Wilby] “o, does anyone know how we can speed up multiple clips by 4% in one go? “
Soundtrack Pro is scriptable and you can make the scripts available in the Finder via a right/control click.
I haven’t tried to set this particular scenario up, but have for other tasks and it works well.
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Did you ever get a solution to this problem, i was going to post with the exact same issue. 1-how to import as dual mono not stereo and 2-if i needed to change the speed on the audio. the film, shot on 720p video at 23.98. so is the solution to slow down the audio 4%.
i tried to multiclip the video and audio. i think by doing this, it made the audio mono, but the sync was way off.
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Hi David
No not really, i didnt get any help that sped us our workflow. We are going well though and into our last 2 weeks of offlining.
I dont really understand what your second problem was? if you still need any help, a bit more detail would be needed. Although im more PAL based than NTSC so not really down with all that 23.98 stuff.
joe
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