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Using Imovie for FCP7
I’m awful at describing things in text. So I apologize in advance for the way I am typing this. I’m going to have to type it in fragments, the only way I know how to explain without being more confusing than the situation is.
I taped something in HDV. I had a lot of technical errors with it. FCP7 kept capturing this one section of tape I needed in sections. In the middle of the capture I’d see it in the bin.
2 clips would pop out from the capture. I’d stop the capture. Then I’d play the 2 clips back thinking I could just join them together for the full clip I needed.
Nope. Both clips were an even shorter .. fraction, of the full clip I needed.
So I hooked up the JVC cam I taped with. No good.
Finally out of desperation I fired up Imovie, a program I’ve never used.
IT WORKED! It capture exactly what I needed.
But it captured both tracks of audio… which is good. I needed to separate each track once it was in FCP.
I couldn’t separate them. They’re stuck together and can’t be separately edited, deleted, or anything. Even when I lock one track, I still can’t delete the track that’s unlocked. I tried to lower the volume on one track, and the other track lowered in synch with it (even when I locked either one of the tracks).
Is there a way to unlink the two audio clips?
One thing I’m thinking is go back into FCP. Undock one of the audio tracks so that when I lay down the clip, the only audio track I need will lay down. But because of all of the above, I’m thinking both audio tracks will lay down no matter what.
OR… I just recalled this.. I’ll get an error message pointing at something saying I have to have both tracks together.
WHEEWWWW Sorry, I know that was wordy. I hate writing (or reading) novels.. so sorry I just wrote one.
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Select the clips in the timeline and press Opt-L to toggle stereo pair. Hold the Option to select the audio separately from the video if you want to delete the audio. Or don’t edit it into the timeline in the first place.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Thanks Mr. Wolsky,
At first it would not let me edit the separate clips in to the middle of an existing time line. I kept getting an error message telling me, “Operation Not Allowed.” So after reading your response, I tried it again at the end of the time line and it worked. I then just copied & pasted what I needed in the spot it needed to be in.“Alllll Seeeet!” Jim Carrey/Cable Guy.
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