[Justin Valls]

Looks like no one has responded to this post? Any answers?

Justin Fernando Valls
Director/Editor
Abode Productions
Portland, OR

[Justin Valls]

Hey Paul,

After we upgraded our operating system to Leopard, the problem resolved for a long time. Have you done the basic maintenance recommended in this thread to keep your system clean?

If you are working with Soundtrack and Motion, I would recommend exporting self-contained movie and audio files from these programs. Using the “Send To” feature is fine, but when you finish your Motion or Soundtrack project, don’t expect FCP to handle it safely in the long run if you simply save and return to FCP.

We’ve encountered many playback problems, and eventually compression export problems when media goes offline that FCP can’t detect. FCP won’t tell you if media files have gone offline within a referenced soundtrack or motion project.

I’d also avoid using too many referenced sequences within one timeline – I’ve found the sync issue is largely associated with large quantities of nested sequences in the same timeline. That’s a limiting work-around, but it seems to have worked for us.

I hope this helps. The whacked out syncing bug is not your fault if that makes you feel any better:)

Justin Fernando Valls
Director/Editor
Abode Productions
Portland, OR

[Justin Valls]

i suppose a fresh install it is. we’ll probably take the opportunity to upgrade to leopard. probably won’t hear results till monday…

[Justin Valls]

Nope, unfortunately a new project has the same problem. I just opened a new project, and drug a clip directly from a drive containing media (native format 1080i 48kHz 16 bit integer) to the browser. Double clicking on the clip opens it in the viewer, and playing it creates the distorted low speed audio. When I drag it to the sequence, and press play, it takes a moment for the audio to turn on after the video begins, and another moment to report a dropped frame after i’ve heard the audio distortion. Relatively small clip keep in mind on a dual core with 3 GB RAM.

Justin Fernando Valls
Director/Editor
Abode Productions
Portland, OR

[Justin Valls]

Forums can be a tough place to spot sarcasm. i might have missed it in your response…but Piece of sh*T would be another way of saying it.

since two hours of the cut are completed minus one chapter, i’m having difficulty finding the humor in fcp’s failure to play what it let us build for years.

i’m not totally in panic mode yet. we could still transfer terabytes to our secondary station, that would be fun….

are there fcp developers one could hire to solve this kinda thing should this wonderful forum not bear its sweet nectar?

Justin Fernando Valls
Director/Editor
Abode Productions
Portland, OR

[Justin Valls]

David,

Thanks for responding. We don’t have a Kona/Blackmagic Card installed. Our interface is very simple.
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics card and for a few more days, the P.O.S. intel sound card. We’re running Quicktime version 7.4.5 and FCP 6.0.3.

Our video playback is completely fine, it’s just the audio that has totally flaked.

Even without any sequences open, if I open a logged media clip in the viewer, the same audio problem is present. It doesn’t play at first, then it cuts in with echo and distortion (sounds like the clip is slowed down).

I’m all ears if you have any other ideas.

[Justin Valls]

I’ve tried deleting all my preferences, and tried creating a new user. The problem pervades. More then frustrated with FCP 6.0.3. It was nice when the program functioned. Is anyone else getting echo and pan distortion?

[Justin Valls]

I am experiencing the exact same audio echo and distortion problem described. We thought we fixed it at one point by deleting the preferences, but the next day it immediately started again.

This makes editing completely impossible with FCP. Have you figured out a solution?