[Jim Burns]

I forgot to mention that I also adjusted the opacity of the upper track to suit.

[Jim Burns]

I’ve played around with this a few times.

You can blur the background by applying a mask. Darken it a bit too. This’ll take the viewers eye off the sharpness.

Then duplicate the clip and use an unsharpen filter on the duplicate which should be on the upper track of your timeline.

I’ve got pretty acceptable results but i guess it depends on how back the focus is.

[Jim Burns]

Looks excellent to me, also.

[Jim Burns]

I did indeed.

I downloaded and installed the updates straight after FCPX

[Jim Burns]

Hi Neil

Thanks for your response.

I have been poking around the FCPX application and media folders looking for some of the text in my subtitles. I guess that they are stored in the new relational database and until the APIs are made available they’ll be locked down.

All the best

Jim

[Jim Burns]

So

About 5 minutes after I posted this I tried again on a different machine – this time, one that already had FCP 7. I installed FCP X on it, dragged the clip into FCPX and it worked.

There’s obviously something wrong here but maybe there are additional codecs with FCP 7 or something.

Anyway it works : )

[Jim Burns]

Hi,

Are you sure that there’s really no audio in that new exported file? I know you exported it that way but…

I’d drag it into FFMpegX and see what it detects.

Failing that, I’m stuck but would probably try transcoding all the footage into ProRes 422 using Compressor and sync again.

Jim

[Jim Burns]

Hi

Actually, I just re-read your message and wanted to clear something up.

Rather then fix the 44.1 kHz audio you should be able to sort the odd 48 kHz to make it 44.1 kHz.

This one > 1.) Canon HF S20 Codec: H.264, Linear PCM filmed at 60i (1080i 29.97fps)1920X1080 Audio 48kHz

ffmpegx is very simple to use. Just back up the video file so you don’t accidentally mess it up and then you can play around with the copy.

I would just drag the file to ffmpeg and it’ll detect the type and sample rates. Then I’d try to figure out how to save the audio at 44.1 kHz by itself, import it into FCPX, and then detach the existing 48 kHz audio from the video footage and replace it with the 44.1 kHz stuff. I think that would work although I’ve only completed a couple of basic tutorials with FCPX.

Make sure you update the post with your experiences as our friend Michael suggests so that someone who searches can help themselves.

Cheers! and happy editing!

[Jim Burns]

Hi TIm,

I’m a newbie too so hopefully my limited experience will be of some help.

I noticed that the audio you recorded is at different sampling rates. I expect that’s where the problem lies. I’ve had this problem before and I needed to strip the audio out and convert it to a different sample rate.

The 44.1 kHz is CD sample rate and the 48 kHz isn’t.

Perhaps you can process the odd footage through compressor and resample the audio? Maybe something like FFMpegX would do that for you too. I’m not sure.

Does that help?

Jim

[Jim Burns]

Thanks Jonathan 🙂

This is one camera from a 6 camera shoot so I have plenty of footage to cut to, however, this is the longer shot and if there was a way of fixing it i’d rather do that.

I completely understand what you mean about the average person not noticing it. Most of the average people I’ve showed it to don’t! But when it’s being projected on that big screen I will be squirming in my seat wishing I’d cloned myself that night and had sorted the camera out for myself.

I can certainly hide some of it but I was hoping there would be a systematic fix I could apply.

Thanks again for your help. I appreciate it very much 🙂