[Danielle Warren]

Thank you for the very detailed explanation Pat. I am determined to understand Avid better, so have decided to force myself to cut a project in there. Took me about 3 hours just to even get going, but it’s all a learning curve.

I still don’t really understand the AMA linking thing. I tried to do that to this file, but that option was grayed out. Does the source file have to be in a certain format for the AMA linking to work?

[Danielle Warren]

Argh. Thanks Joe. That’s very frustrating, but thank you for clearing it up.

[Danielle Warren]

Yay! Thank you! I knew that was probably the answer, but wanted to make sure.

[Danielle Warren]

Thanks Richard, appreciate your fast reply.

I did read about how to make sure fast import works, and I followed all the instructions, so it is indeed fast importing. It’s a 65 minute file, so perhaps I’m expecting too much to expect that to move very fast! Also, the file was given to me, so besides the settings I can see in QT, I don’t know how else it was exported.

I won’t change any file names, I just wanted to make sure that once I start editing the file I just imported, cutting, splicing, sub clipping, etc. it won’t alter the source file. I honestly wasn’t sure and was worried to start doing anything for fear that the source file will change and I can’t go back.

[Danielle Warren]

Thank you Robert! I knew it was something simple, I just couldn’t see it. Really appreciate it!

[Danielle Warren]

“It’s up to you. Before I export a master, I usually trash all render files and rerender, but it’s an old habit from back in the days when FCP’s renders were even worse than now.

Audio renders are really easy to rerender so there’s no real penalty, especially if it ensures that your program will be correct!”

Definitely always worth it to make sure it’s correct. This project it was a pain in the a** because the sequence was 5 and a 1/2 minutes long. So I’d watch it, but just to make sure the audio was good, I’d watch again just playing the music. So it took over 11 minutes just to check before exporting. I shouldn’t have to do that.

I will definitely try what you’re saying for next time. Audio takes seconds to render so it’s no big deal to re-render it. I also just noticed as well that the audio is AIFF, but 44.1. I’m sure that didn’t help. Next time I’ll make sure it’s always 48.

Thanks again for your help!

[Danielle Warren]

Hi Jeremy,
I think you’ve answered the question. It must be playing back the wrong render files, because the song plays, but it’s not the right part of the song which means it must be playing back something else.

That’s very odd though still, because each sequence is named something different, but who knows!

As this project just finished, for the future, every time I duplicate a sequence to make changes to it, should I just delete the render files every time?

Thanks again! So glad I understand what the problem is and hopefully how to fix it. (I say hopefully only because I haven’t had a chance to try it out.)

Danielle

[Danielle Warren]

They’re not MP3s, they’re AIFFs.

I haven’t taken them offline and relinked them so I don’t know what happens. What’s strange is the original file in the project never goes bad, it’s only what’s in the sequences that gets messed up.

[Danielle Warren]

But it happens in lots of different sequences, and it doesn’t happen all the time. Next time I start a project, should I just delete the audio renders after the first sequence is made to avoid the problem down the road?

[Danielle Warren]

Great to see this thread as I was also having the same issue. I worked with and did a multiclip fine with a music video I cut recently, but when I tried to apply the same steps to syncing two camera angles and a separately recorded clean audio track, no dice.

I did as everyone has said and synced it how I would sync anything. Laid in the clean audio, making a mark at the slate board clap. Then found the same slate sound on the poor, attached audio from each video clip, and put them on top of the audio in the timeline. Once everything was synced, I deleted the poor audio leaving just the clean audio and the two video clips.

But when I select all three and drag and drop in a new bin to make a multi clip, the multi clip is completely out of sync and I couldn’t understand why. Also, one clip ran for the whole length of the clean audio, but the second angle for some reason was chopped up. It ran for about 2 minutes at the beginning of the clip, then cut off, then there was a separate video clip that started from the middle of the audio. But I shouldn’t think that would cause any issues.

I didn’t try using out points, so I will try that. I’m really hoping that works and it’s not a bug. I didn’t shoot or transcode anything I’m working with, so I have no idea what anything is or how it was shot.

If anyone has any other suggestions or words of advice, would be great to hear it. Thanks!