[Frederic Lumiere]

[Kip Watters] “This should not be a problem (assuming Soundbite is successfully indexing the MOV files). A couple of points to consider:

— First, are you actually creating a new sub-clip or clip – i.e., an indexable asset on disk — or by “link the clips together”, are you creating some form of virtual asset in the project that is not actually a media file on disk?

Yes by definition FCP is non destructive and unless one uses Media Manager or does a manual export, the original files on the disk are untouched. Nevertheless, Soundbite is indexing the wav files in the project directly since the movs have been stripped of their original audio to link to the new audio.

— At what point are you adding the project to Soundbite? When it’s added, are the MOV files present or just the WAV’s? If the MOV files are added to the project after adding the project to Soundbite, it may need to be “refreshed”. Once you save changes to a project, Soundbite will recognize that it is not in sync and notify you.

I do the sound sync with plural eyes, delete the original audio from the mov, link the new audio and the video and drag the newly synced movs to a bin called ‘synced’. In order to simplify things for Soundbite, I deleted all the other files from the project and only kept the useable synced movs which I plan to edit.

— If the project contains a new physical media file that you’d like markers for and Soundbite doesnt appear to recognize that file, then the file itself could be a problem. Is the file encoded with anything proprietary that requires a special codec or is it simply a QT MOV file?”

Soundbite recognizes the wavs (which are linked to the movs) and places markers to the wavs but the timecode is off with the movs. Note: I didn’t sync the wav timecode with the video during recording.

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks Boris,

I was hoping I didn’t have to do that but it looks like it’s the best option. Keep at least one track of audio from the camera to work with Soundbite.

Thanks again!

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Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks Kenny!

It all worked out beautifully thanks to your recommendation to using automatic Duck. Here’s a couple stories about my workflow:

https://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Magazine/2011/February-1-2011/WWII-Nat-Geo-special-created-in-post.aspx

https://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentissue/Multiplying-Soldiers-in-Final-Cut-and-After-Effects_12954.html

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

David,

Your XML Analyzer worked great – thank you!

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks! Hey I found this XML Analyzer and it worked like a charm!

https://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.php

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Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Matt,

Yes I remembered that it was important that your easy setup preset timebase matched the timebase of your destination sequence before importing audio files when I designed the Lumiere HD xml workflow – and I thought I had done that.

But – after reading your note, I reset the easy setup to prores 23.98 before the export as well and now you are correct, it sets the proper timebase for the audio when importing.

So THANK YOU for your excellent tutorial and for helping me solve this issue.

Best,

Frederic

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Yes – no choice since this is 23.98

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks Matt.

Love the CTRL – B tip!

Yes, I am the admin and have full read/write privileges over all the directories (stills, renders, etc.)

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Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Jeremy, Bret and Dave all your suggestions are right on. I definitely never use non RGB stills especially if they have a resolution above 4,000 pixels.

Just to illustrate what I am experiencing, here’s the latest reason for a “Out Of Memory” error.

The clip is prores 422 HQ 29.97 1080 in a 1080p 23.98 Prores 422 HQ timeline.

I slowed down the clip to 42% with a 12 frame cross dissolve at the end. I try to render and get the error “Out Of Memory”, I take out the cross dissolve (Cut) and render fine. I paste the cross dissolve back on the clip (same one I cut a moment ago) and it renders fine.

I call that a bug.

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Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Yes Dave, I am fully aware of this. (I developed Lumiere HD 😉

Thanks all for the valuable advice.

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Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media