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why is it so hard to get a self-contained multi-track audio quicktime out of avid?
We need to get a ProResHD multi-track audio quicktime out of avid. To do that we are exporting a quicktime reference file with audio not mixed down, and then taking that file into compressor and exporting it out pro res HD with audio pass thru. The (DnxHD)reference file looks and sounds great out of avid on quicktime and even plays correctly in compressor. The file has about 10 seconds of slate and black and then the spot. When we save it out of compressor, for some reason the audio starts playing at the start instead of where the spots starts 10 seconds in.
This only happens with sequences out of avid.
Why is it doing this? Why is it so hard to get a self-contained multi-track audio quicktime out of avid? Thanks!
I’m on a mac pro 2.93 (6core) with 32gb ram on 10.6.6 running MC 5.5.1 and compressor 3.5.3, quicktime pro 7.6.6
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Perhaps because the audio starts then? And for some reason there is no audio media before that, so it just passes thru.
Try this… put some audio under the slate and the black, but drop the levels down to negative infinity. All the way down. Then try.
Just a guess.
Shane
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AH…you thought of that and it didn’t work. Hmmmm
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it’s very strange
because when exported, it works fine as a Reference movie, but as soon as I save it as a self contained movie via compressor (because using quicktime pro strips out the timecode track, which i need) the resulting file is screwed up, (the audio that starts 10 seconds in, now starts at the head of the spot (where the slate/ black is) very annoying! need a fix soon. thanks! -
I think i figured it out. The sequence had a mix of 16bit and 24bit audio. I transcoded the 16bit audio to 24bit and it works now.
Avid exports quicktime reference movie
Compressor exports the ref movie into a self contained movie
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