[Gethin Aldous]

I like to start by saying Bouke Vahl is a genius. The only reason I needed to do this in the first place was to make a BWAV file so I could layback track 3&4 on an HDCAM tape and know for sure that it was in sync.

So this was my solution. Export the audio from final cut pro as a movie file (export to quicktime movie) but blank out all the video tracks so the file output has the timecode embedded but is fast and is small (ish. It is still 4 times the size of an aiff). Then I take that file into Bouke Vahl’s QTchange program and use that to extrack the audio as a bwf. And bingo when I import it into avid it now syncs up. It still does the same nonsense as before in FCP but I don’t really care.

By the way I am using FCP 6.04 so this bug may be fixed in the new version.

Bouke, thanks so much.

[Gethin Aldous]

Thanks for your response.

“So if i get you right: You have sequences that are fine, and export Audio only from those sequences, and they have different lengths when you import them? ” – yes that is correct.

Here where it gets weird, when you import to FCP in the viewer the time of the AIFF is 00.24.30.00, when it hits the timeline it is 24.31.16. When I import the aiff into AVID it arrives at 24.31.16 when I import it into soundtrack pro it is 24.30.00. ie not lengthened.

I have exported the aiff to an new aiff from quicktime pro and it still does the same thing.

I am very confused.