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Trouble with DVCPRO50 audio
I’m working with an indie filmmaker who shot some DVCPro50 footage. He then captured it to firewire and delivered it to me. When I import the clips, they show up in FCP as having only one channel of audio and it is silent. No waveform, nothing. If I open the clip in quicktime it plays fine – I can then export a stereo aiff file, import it and it works fine.
I’m new to DVCpro50 and I haven’t been able to find any mention of this problem. Was the footage captured incorrectly? Have I got a settings problem? The clips and the sequence match (DVCPRO50 – NTSC) – Video plays without needing to render.
I’m stumped. Can anyone help out?
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Perhaps I should mention that the clips were captured in FCP 5, and I’m using 4.5.
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[Budrick21] “Was the footage captured incorrectly?”
That’s my first question right there. Audio and Video need to be captured as one file. And with you working in FCP 4.5, it would have been better to have the footage captured in the same version, not 5.0.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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There are some audio quirks when transferring clips between 4.5 and 5. Try exporting an XML file (in XMLv1 format) from FCP5 and then importing that into FCP4.5 which might fix it.
Martin
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