Bouncing Account needs new email address
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The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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Are you using the FCP “native” titlers, or Boris “Title 3D”?
I always avoid the native titlers in FCP.
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Virtually all camcorders with the DV format can playback Ch. 3 & 4, but you need to switch them to that mode (likely in the MENU settings for audio).
Likewise, FCP must be set to access Ch. 3 & 4.
Here’s how (it is the same for PAL, but you will of course use the PAL settings):Final Cut Pro (menu pull-down) >
Audio/Video Settings >
Capture Presets >
Click the “Duplicate…” button >
a new “Capture Preset Editor” window will open >
Change the “Name:” field to DV NTSC 32 kHz CH 3&4 (so you’ll be able to tell it apart from the “normal” setting.)
Under QuickTime Audio Settings >
Input: Second 2 Channels >
Click “OK”Now, try a capture. If the audio is on CH 3&4, you’ll get it into FCP.
Remember to put your “normal” settings back (to “First 2 Channels”) after you captured CH 3&4 tracks.
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I’ve got to ask the obvious question…
What format did the station(s) request?
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[Aaron Duprey] “On both versions, the same guy still sounds bad.”
Just a shot-
Do you have his audio on a SINGLE audio track or on TWO audio tracks?
Make sure his audio is only on one audio track. panned to center (make the changes on the timeline.)
That will eliminate any phase problems that might come in if he was recorded in “stereo” incorrectly. -
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The Countryman (and most other pro-level mics, condenser-types) require battery power (1 volt, or so) to operate.
Wireless transmitters provide that power on their inputs.
A portable recorder (iRiver, in this case) will likely NOT provide this, unless it specifically says so. -
Try looking here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
This seems to be the answer to many of these kind of problems.
Worth a shot.
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[Don Greening] “CARPe Dium (seize the fish.)
“CARPe Deum
More correctly would mean “Fish all day.”
-signed,
Your Latin teacher’s fishing buddy -
[Don Greening] “Try doing an audio mixdown of your timeline before outputting to tape”
Absolutely.
The Audio Mixdown function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.