[Jimi Lund]

Thanks guys,

I’ll try those suggestions shortly and let you know how it turns out.

[Jimi Lund]

Aaargh! Oh how I wish I had read this post.

After being on the phone to Apple 3 times in the last 2 days – trying everything – wiping my sytem / reinstalling – & finally establishing that i’ve got a corrupt project, I type in “corrupt project” on here and Shane’s method solves it in 2 seconds!

Shane be glad you’re far away because right now I could kiss you!

[Jimi Lund]

Ok, i’m sure nobody’s listening anymore but I don’t want anyone else to have to go through this.

After removing and reinstalling Final Cut Suite – then doing a full erase and install of everything (which to my dismay and horror didn’t solve the problem), and after much troubleshooting, it turns out that my project has become corrupt.

After going back through my time-machine back-ups and trashing preferences at every step, i’ve established where it went wrong.

My other projects were not working because I was opening them whilst my corrupt project was open and my preferences were bad.

[Jimi Lund]

False alarm. Still not working.

Back on the phone to Apple. Problem unknown. When Mr Apple is exasperated you know something’s wrong.

What i’ve tried so far (and having no success): Creating a new user account.
Creating a new project and importing the footage. (this brought a File Error message before importing them).

My next move is to uninstall my recent plug-ins.

If unsuccessful, re-install FCP.

If unsucessful, full wipe and install.

[Jimi Lund]

Quick update – I resolved this issue. I think:

I found another thread with the same issues and was worried that nobody had fixed the problem:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1005429

So I phoned Apple. After the problems with my HDV going manic (still not sure why) and it affecting all my other formats. I took out the aforementioned measures to fix it but my DV clips would not play sound in either the viewer or timeline.

I reimported one of my raw media files and it played fine. What I had to do, but wasn’t, once all my easy set-up settings were correct, was duplicate my sequence. Then everything played fine.

It’s a bit of a gotcha that the amended settings aren’t immediate.

[Jimi Lund]

I have exactly the same problem at the moment.

Audio problems began on HDV clips.
Now no audio at all on all media formats from within FCP. No levels – dropping frames constantly.

Hard drive is firewire 800 – 600GB space left.
Trashed preferences. Checked all audio output settings & audio master window. No success.
All raw media plays fine in QT – it’s exclusively a Final Cut issue.

Working in Final Cut 6.0.6

Did anyone manage to resolve this issue?

[Jimi Lund]

I’m not on Snow Leopard yet.

I did think it was something to do with the HDV format, so i took the HDV clips into Compressor and exported them as DV Pal to see if I had any more stability. Alas no.

But I don’t think it’s to do with HDV as other projects i’ve tested, with other formats (DV Pal, DV Cam) are all responding the same: absolutely no audio levels or output in FCP but fine in QT. And still every few seconds I get the droppped frames message.

Incidentally I checked the Master audio control button in the audio mixer window. It’s not that either.

Is it time for a reinstall of FCP?

Are there any other tests I can do?

[Jimi Lund]

Thanks for the swift reply.

I know what you mean about the firewire conflict – i’ve experienced that before too. But not this time.

I haven’t got any firewire device connected. My external hard drive is the only attached device.

Any other ideas?

[Jimi Lund]

I tried this, knowing that the shift fields filter would be added.
It hasn’t done a very good job however and having done some reading on here, it generally doesn’t seem to do so.

Still thinking it’s probably better to remedy this in Compressor before bringing it into FCP. Anyone agree?

[Jimi Lund]

Cheers Chris