David Rowan
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Look at the timeline. At the left of each track you will see buttons that disconnect or reconnect the audio (or by dragging them around you can send one channel to a different channel). You can do this with the mouse or by holding down F7 and hitting 0 in the number pad, and then F8 and hitting 0 in the number pad.
If these buttons show the audio is disconnected then you can drag you clip and only the video will go. No audio.
In the same place (the left of the timeline) you will see the little padlocks. if you click on this to lock the audio then when you drag your clip to the timeline or canvas you will only get video no audio.
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Its OK, once you are in Soundtrack Pro I’m pretty sure you can do things (like invert the phase) to only one of the stereo channels. If you click above where the waveform is you’ll se a little “L” next to the cursor, meaning your only doing things to the left channel. If you go below the waveform on the bottom you should see a little “R”.
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I kind of thought the whole message board acted as a list of problems. 🙂
DWR
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Earlier I had a post about a similar issue. The problem is that when clips are captured in FCP 5 with Dual Mono audio, Soundtrack Pro will only open CH1 audio. I can’t get it to look at CH2.
I spent a while with and Apple Tech on the phone and he had the same problem. There is something wierd about how FCP 5 is capturing dual mono audio. Or perhaps its how the AJA I/O is capturing with its new drivers for FCP 5. The Apple said he would send this up to the “Pro” guys, but that it might be something it does on pupose. That is not being able to export CH 2 audio to Soundtrack Pro might be a “feature” not a “bug”
When I used Peak-DV to open the FCP 5 clips I noticed that Peak asks you which of the two audio tracks you want to open. It only opens one at a time, but at least I can get to CH2 audio this way. Whats interesting is that Peak asks if I want to open the quicktime file audio from ch4 or ch5.
I’ve know that quicktime can have many tracks of audio, but its interesting that FCP 5 is capturing the audio in these higher number tracks, and I wonder if this could be related to the problem.
In the meantime I capture stuff in stereo and then seperate it if I want to do pre-pro on the audio. Or I use Peak if all I’m doing is normalizing.
DWR
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Dual 2.7 G5 with Tiger. I use an AJA I/O. I’ve been on FCP 5 for about two weeks. Most of my projects are very short and I have had no “Sticky Timeline”.
This weekend I was working on a very long presentation (2hrs). I would frequently get “Sticky Timeline” when I would playback at high speed (ie: hitting “L” 2 or 3 times) or when scrolling quickly with the mouse. This went for the timeline and the viewer. I was just attributing it to the very large, long clips I was working from.
DWR
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In the bottom left corner of the timeline are some teenie buttons, one of them looks like a mountain, the next one looks like a row of buildings. One of them looks like two parrallel lines. The one with the parrellel lines is “Toggle clip keyframes”. Try turning that on and off and see if, perhaps, that makes your extra grey lines go away.
DWR
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Oh, and make sure your not using paper lables. You know, the CD stomper Glue on type sticky lables? They are a big no-no on DVD’s.
DWR
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In the newsroom where I work we are now constantly getting VNR (Video News Releases) on CD-Rom. Most of the time its some little, tiny, squished up video file running as part of a biggger “presentation” program. A lot of the time even when I can find the video file its a WMV and I’m SOL. sometimes its an AVI or an MPEG 1 or 2 and I can do something with it, but it still looks like crap.
Other times I have been surprised. When the files have been those little movies which digital still cameras can make I can usually get them to work and they are acceptable quality in the context of the news story (usually survellience stuff).
If any of you are out there making VNR’s and you are making compressed little files for your client’s web site, power point presentation or other CD Rom output, please let your client know that a TV station isn’t going to be able to do much with it. A seperate disk with just the video presentation as a quicktime file in DV quality would be great.
DWR
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I switched the tape deck with an identical machine from the next room, and now that problem is beat, sort of. Now if I can figure out all the other wirdness with this “upgrade”.
DWR