Want to automatically put audio clips into timeline…

[Walter Biscardi]

[Joe Shapiro] “I have a timeline with clips on the video track. The video files (and master clips) that correspond to these timeline clips also have audio. I’d like to add the audio that corresponds to each of these clips.”

Just curious why you didn’t put the audio in the timeline while you were putting the video in there? It should all be one file.

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[Joe Shapiro]

Fair question, Walter.
The answer is twofold. First, someone else constructed this edit as an Avid 24P project. So I’m importing an Avid project into FCP. And it’s a 24P project so Automatic Duck doesn’t support it.

Second, the original telecine did NOT have the DATs on it. No sound. But the audio post guy who is now involved in the project was helpful enough to sync the DATs with the dailies and write the audio track onto the Beta SP telecine tapes.

I recaptured all these tapes WITH sound and now am trying to recreate the timeline in FCP. I’ve got the picture edit there but now have to get the sound onto the timeline.

Hope this makes sense. It’s not exactly straightforward but it really is coherent.

Joe Shapiro
Freelance Editor
Seattle WA

[Arnie Schlissel]

Soooo… this is double system sound, then? And you’ve constructed an edit without it?

If the QT files on disk have the sound in synch with them, you can use match frame to edit in the sound one clip at a time.

If not, well then you’ve got quite a lot more work to do. You’ll have to manually synch each clip. All 1500 of them.

Oy!! Good luck!

Arnie
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[Joe Shapiro]

Yup, the sound is synced in the media files so I could certainly use match frame to fix each edit one-at-a-time. That’s my current – though quite labor-intensive – backup plan. I’m just hoping for an automatic way to do this.

Can one write a script yet in FCP that actually touches the FCP data structures? As in looking at and modifying the timeline? Vegas is particularly good at this and I’m hoping that FCP catches up real soon now…

Note that FCP is my platform of choice and I’m in no way trying to start a flame war here.

Joe Shapiro
Freelance Editor
Seattle WA

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Joe Shapiro] “Can one write a script yet in FCP that actually touches the FCP data structures?”

Nope. No scripting. I wonder if this is the kind of thing that Traffic might do? You can download a 30 day demo of it: https://www.xmedit.com/

Arnie
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[Frank Nolan]

You could always export a CMX3600 edl and have the sound guy do an assembly of the audio only with post conform or Titan flash conform and then re-import an OMF from a protools session once assembled. This would be 1 days work as opposed to….?

[Oliver Peters]

The obvious question is whether of not the sound edits track the picture edits at all. If you have a V-only timeline, simply changing this to a straight cut version that is VA1A2 will most likely be wrong. Or are you just wanting this audio for reference? Or is this a re-edit?

The EDL idea is probably the best, though you could actually do that yourself from the same tapes and project files. No Pro Tools needed.

Sincerely,
Oliver

Oliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
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