[Jgallaghereditor]

Michael

I forgot to mention in my original post that this is what I suspected. However, surely the point of the column in the Browser is to display the audio format of the sequence? Apple can tell us about what internal bit depth the program works to in it’s promotional literature or in the manual – but not in the browser, surely?!

On the other hand, maybe I’ve got a bit too much time on my hands if I’m replying to posts like this… 🙂

John

[Jgallaghereditor]

Hi Scott

I can’t really help you with the specifics of the problem (all I can suggest is what other people have suggested already and that you look at Larry Jordan’s excellent Troubleshooting guide at https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_trouble.html).

However, what I can do is post you out a downloaded patch for FCP on a CD if that would help. Just tell me exactly the version patch you need and your address and I’ll do it tomorrow ASAP. I hate to see other people in trouble – it really sucks and if I can use my broadband connection to help someone in an emergency I’ll gladly do it. I assume you’re in the UK? If you can reimburse me, I’d also be fine with sending it out on a courier if it’s really time sensitive.

Email me on jgallaghereditor at yahoo dot co dot uk and we can sort it out.

John

[Jgallaghereditor]

Hi Jonny

When I was messing around with audio settings a while ago I noticed this. It seems to me that it isn’t a problem with the audio settings – your sequence will be at whatever sample rate and depth you choose in the sequence settings (you can access this dialogue box by highlighting the sequence in the browser and pressing Apple-Zero).

It simply seems to be that FCP always displays a sequence as being 32 bit Floating Point in the audio format column of the browser, irrelevant of what bit depth it actually is. Therefore, rather bizarrely, the browser isn’t displaying the information it claims to be doing, which is a tad misleading if you ask me. However, have faith. The sequence should be at the bit depth set in the settings and this should become apparent when the sequence is exported. I just tested this out now and it seems to hold true.

Thank goodness this only applies to sequences and not to clips otherwise we’d all be properly confused.

John