[Clicerio Muñoz]

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MY POST ABOVE:
THE FILE “Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs” IS NOT into Package Contents… IT was a writing mistake from me. The file is into: Your user name/Library/Preferences/FCP User Data.

Sorry.

By the way!!! Some news. This problem happened to me again TODAY. Do you remember my “Project One”? (Check above. I am talking about a multiformat project) Well… it was open again, AT THE SAME TIME THAN OTHER TWO different projects, one of them HDV and the other one DV.

So I went to my own solution and it worked to me again…

My preliminary conclusion is:
This issue is related or caused by some video characteristics combination (field dominance , for instance; mixing formats maybe, or even a single corrupt file )

Another thing: I just realized writing this, about another very similar issue: sometimes you have a single clip which is part of a complex editing time line. When you master your video, just right there in that clip, the audio goes out or sounds tricky. No matter what you do (re converting, exporting, recapturing, or whatever to that fu.. clip) the “thing”is going to still forever in your MASTER TAPE, PRINT TO VIDEO AND SO ON (Hey… NOT IN your .mov file, of course)… until you apply to that single clip a “shift fields” filter.

I hope my long hours, even days trying to fix this last issue some time ago, will be worth for more people besides me and my coworkers.

GOOD LUCK

[Clicerio Muñoz]

Sorry I am in a hurry. No time to get in a bunch of details. Even tough don’t want to let you behind. What I did, worked to me very well and in just a few minutes.

FACTS
1. Mac Pro, FCP 6.0.3. I had two projects open at once at the time of the problem. Project one: HDV, DV, DVCAM files. Sequence settings (output) DV NTSC. Second Project: Just DV and DVCAM.
2.- The problem came when I tried to review my TV spot (which was into the Second Project) on the external monitor… ( Same thing happened when I tried to do “Print to video”). A disgusting and acute noise mostly in channel one… hard… impossible to recognize words or background music
3.- I went to this and other forums. No answers. ( In the mean time I did several test using other FireWire cables, another VCR, etc)
4.- IMPORTANT:(I am not saying “this is the main cause of the issue”, I am just letting you guys know what I did) I tried to run FCP RESCUE 5. I did not know it was not good for Leopard. When I realized that… I THREW OUT ALL THE FILES RELATED TO THIS PROGRAM… then:

SOLUTIONS:
1. I did restart my Mac
2. I went to FCP app and opened package contents
3. I threw out this file:
Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs
4. I came back to FCP, but just opened my SECOND PROJECT. Tried to “print to video” again… ¡ It worked out !

I sincerely wish this will give you, at least, a clue… maybe a hope.
Thanks. Good Luck. Sorry if I made mistakes. English is not my mother language.

Clicerio Muñoz, LMMC
Gerente Operativo
Digital Producciones
clicerio@digitalpro.tv