[Gaberussell]

Thanks for the helpful answers, everyone!

-Gabe

[Gaberussell]

The tape I was capturing from is an NTSC BetaSP tape from a post house.

Thanks,

Gabe

[Gaberussell]

Thanks for the insight. It sounds like the “Mixdown” function has the same effect, creating a new render file for each sequence.

[Gaberussell]

There was an entire tape (an hour or so) of music videos cut up into subclips. The sequences contained these subclips as well as PNG and PSD full screen graphics with AIFF music beds. One oddity I noticed was that a few of the music videos had some of the AIFF music beds for audio instead of their own linked audio. There was also a set of graphics that had silence where there should have been AIFFs.

-Gabe

[Gaberussell]

The split files should open in Quicktime or FCP if you open the master clip, which is the one without the number on the end. The numbered files are referenced by the master, and can’t be opened individually.

If you open the master in Quicktime, you can “Save as…” and select “self-contained movie” to output a single file that contains all the split files.

Hope this helps,

Gabe Russell
D2 Productions

[Gaberussell]

I just read up on the mixdown command in the FCP manual – I didn’t know about it until now. It seems this renders all audio to a render file instead of playing back from the master media. I figured FCP would do this automatically when I selected Print to Video – is that not the case? This still seems like a bug if audio clips are out of sequence.

I can’t test whether your theory is correct, since after laying off the individual sequences, the master now plays back correctly. I’ll try it next time it comes up. Thanks for the tip!

-Gabe

[Gaberussell]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your reply. I’m getting the error in the middle of rendering or exporting, and it stops the operation. The render or export won’t complete. I don’t have any other apps open when I get the error, so FCP is the only app accessing the file as far as I know.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Gabe

[Gaberussell]

Hi Tom,

The sequences had two audio tracks and contained a simple assembly of clips laid end to end with stereo audio. There was no multitracking involved – just adjustment of audio levels within FCP. These sequences were then laid back to back into the master. I didn’t send any clips to Soundtrack. Does this answer your question?

Thanks,

Gabe

[Gaberussell]

I just experienced a similar audio issue with FCP 6.0.1.

I created five separate 30-minute sequences and then placed them into one long “master” sequence for laying out to a single tape. I left it last night to lay out to the deck, and when I checked tape this morning, there were several sections that had the wrong audio or no audio. When I play back the master sequence in FCP, I hear the same incorrect audio clips. When I play those same sections in the individual subsequences, they play fine. Right now I’m laying out the sequences one at a time to tape.

I have no clue what the fix is. Between this and the “Illegal Name” error I posted earlier today, I’m feeling too good about upgrading to FCP 6.

[Gaberussell]

I’ve found an answer or at least a workaround to my own problem. It seems that Soundtrack doesn’t like to open raw media from Final Cut. It worked somewhat better when I exported clips from Final Cut Pro, but that was a big time delay.

The solution I’ve found is to open each file (the first in the sequence of chunks of a captured clip), and do File -> Save As… and save a reference file. Then I batch processed all the reference files and it seemed to work.

Now if only there were a way to batch create reference files…

-Gabe