Harry Bromley-davenport
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COW Coins
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Kathryn,
I am almost certain that this is due to a mis-match of audio sample rates.
Suggest you go to your SEQUENCE SETTINGS and see what the audio rate is for your RED sequence. Then look at the rate of your audio recordings. If they are not the same, then this is the cause – or one of the causes.
You are only having problems with the audio, correct? No other odd behavior?
Best
Harry.
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Another thought: are you experiencing freezes? If you are, go to your System Prefs and set your screen clock to display seconds as well as hours and minutes. If, during the FCP freeze-up, the seconds continue to tick, the problem is not within the system and is FCS related.
I suggest a re-install. You are clearly wasting a whole load of time on this. A REMOVAL (FCP REMOVER) and reinstall will probably be worth it.
Harry.
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Ah – I just re-read your original post. The unwanted audio is only audible when you do a QT export.
This is what we call the Bonkers Effect. The cure involves trashing prefs, running Disk Warrior and other fix-it software, throwing mouse and ultimately giving up and reinstalling FCP AFTER you have REMOVED FCP TOTALLY by using “FCS” or FCP remover, available free.
I suggest you do all these things before you go into the last stages of the Bonkers Syndrome, which involves contacting Squeaky Fromme and asking her to move into your spare room.
Harry.
Let me know what you decide to do.
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Kathryn,
Clearly no Brass Bands involved here.
I don’t understand why you are not exporting your original Red sequence as a self contained movie and then taking that to Compressor and thence to DVD. Why this step of dragging it into an SD sequence? You must have some reason for this extra step. Is there an alternative?
I assume you’ve done all the usual stuff like trashing prefs, running Disk Warrior and throwing the mouse at the wall?
It must be some disgusting corruption somewhere. How about downloading the demo version of FCP Maintenance pack?
Harry
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Are you saying that the stray audio is coming from continuous clips which suddenly play the wrong sound – i.e. that this is not a case of the stray sounds coming from clips which were never there in the first place?
For instance, the clip is playing some dialog and suddenly – while the same clip is playing – you hear sound which should not be there replacing it, or that the clip suddenly goes insanely out of sync?
If this is so, it is caused by the Brass Band Effect in FCP.
This was named by me when I was editing a sensitive drama some years ago and people would be talking on the track in hushed tones. All of a sudden a large brass band would blare forth for a while and then disappear.
The Brass Band effect is caused by an ancient bug which occasionally reappears if you import audio either recorded at the wrong rate, or in some format which FCP does not particularly like that day. The only cure is to export the offending sound clips as QT audio files and then replace the bad clips with the QT files.
If this is indeed a case of Brass Band syndrome, this corruption will continue randomly until you do something about it.
Best wishes,
Harry.
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Download “Compressor Repair” from Digital Rebellion. It’s free.
Harry
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Correct.
Harry.
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Very good idea. But I don’t want to “hit a few buttons” — I want to highlight the area to be burned and hit command P or maybe Command B.
H.
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Hi David … !
Thanks very much for the advice.
I am taking the conservative route and, following advice on The Cow, have moved my project files way out into the boonies.
Trust all is well with you and the universe.
Harry.
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David,
Thank you for your reply. As I stated above, I keep backups of my project file on separate drives so that is not the issue.
I wanted to know if there is any marginal performance benefit to keeping the system, the media, the application and the project file ALL on different drives.
Or is it better, from a performance POV to have the media and the project file on the SAME drive?
With thanks,
Harry.