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First, its always good practice to save “versions” of your edit (duplicate your timeline, work only on the dupe) before making major changes. That way you can easily go back and retrieve things from the previous version(s).

That said, there a a couple of things to try at this point.

1. Find your Autosave Vault on your HD and see if you can find an earlier version of your project that has the timeline BEFORE you deleted the audio tracks. You can then copy that timeline’s audio tracks to your newer one.

2. Turn the “auto select” ON on the video track that contains the video clip of the audio you want to match.
Put the cursor on the first frame of a given clip, then hit the “f” key.
The original clip will pop into the Viewer on the exact frame you are parked on in the timeline.
Carefully edit only the audio track(s) back on to the timeline.
Repeat for each clip.

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[Anna Wall] “I have decided to hire a local cameraman for the most important recordings.”

Very good idea.

You will be able to learn so much more by working with, and observing, a pro.
That’s how many of us got started in this business.

Hope your project goes well.

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Where are you trying to VIEW it?

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You need Nattress!

https://www.nattress.com
(Look for Stardards Conversion.)

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Lots of Plug-In Filters for this with various settings to make it look AGED.

Nattress has “Film Damage” and others. Good stuff.
https://www.nattress.com

Eureka! has “Film Grain” and “Jiggle”
https://www.kafwang.com/EUREKA/EurekaMain.html

CHV has “Film” (one of my favorites)
https://www.chv-plugins.com/index.html

That should get you started.

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Ah HAH!

You should NOT split-capture your audio and video files (especally in DV format).
They should be captured as one file to one Capture Sctrach folder on one disk.

(See why its important to be very SPECIFIC in your question?)

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Using the high-priced tape WITH the IC, some camcorders (DV or DVCAM) can write a “table of contents” file that contains the location of start/spot points on the tape, the location on the tape of still images that may have been captured to tape, and maybe a couple of other things that were designed into the system.

This feature has been virtually UNUSED by video pros in general (in part, due to the much higher price for the IC tapes, as well as the fact that the IC “features” can really be partically duplicated by capturing a tape into an NLE.)

I’m posting here asking if ANYONE has ever needed the IC features (enough to pay extra to get them).

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As far as “standards for slates”, there aren’t any.
The slate just needs to have meaning to YOU and anyone associated with the project.

You can create lots chapters and markers for your DVD and it will take a lot of time to do that, OR…

I’m going to guess that you want others to be able to view some rough footage so that THEY can list what shots they LIKE and/or DISLIKE.

This is generally done with a client copy (tape or DVD) that has a “Burned-in Timecode Window”.

The raw tape’s Timecode numbers are “effected” into a box that can be viewed on a standard TV over the moving video as it plays.
That way, anyone viewing can make notes about anything and mark down the approximate TC where it takes place.

You can then go back to the master tape(s) and find the exact clip(s) in question.

To add the TC window BASED on the RAW FOOTAGE TC:

First, make a DUPLICATE of your timeline and do these adjustments only on the dupe.

Open the Effects tab > Video Filters > Video > Timecode Print
(Double-click that filter into the Viewer Window and select the Mode: “Reader”

On the dupe Timeline:
Select (highlight) ALL of the video clips on the timeline and drop the Timecode Print (Reader) filter onto any highlighted clip (it will pop to ALL of them at once).

Render and output to tape, and/or burn your DVD from this “burned-in TC” version of the timeline.

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If you don’t have the new version of Soundtrack, you can buy Bias “SoundSoap 2”.

It samples the “noise” and only allows anything ELSE (like voices) to pass, thereby cutting the continuous noise way down.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_soundsoap.html

Bias has recently released “SoundSoap 2”

https://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundsoap/

SoundSoap 2 is priced at about $100.

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1. Record any “Print to Video” to a tape from FCP with the Countdown option selected, then Capture that tape of the countdown back into FCP and keep it.

2. There used to be several animated academy countdown leaders on the FCP install disks:

FCP 4.0 Install CD >
Extras folder >
Head Leaders for Cinema Tools folder >
Leader Clips folder >
Choose one and import it into FCP.

3. Go here:

https://www.deepmagicstudios.com/FCP/

And roll down to the “Final Cut Pro Universal Leaders” section, download your choice, and import.