[Kathryn Cates]

Hi Harry,

Thanks for your response. The stray clips are there in the sequence, but they’re actually from a whole continuous section of audio from a totally different part of the sequence. Playing the original sequence in FCP, you don’t hear it at all. (I can’t speak for the SD sequence I’m exporting because of the aforementioned ‘6 days to render this audio’ issue.) But if you export a Quicktime, there it is…

[Kathryn Cates]

You’re very right–I converted it to a .aiff in Quicktime Pro and now it sounds fine in FCP. (I had a bad Quicktime key, so was trying to do a workaround to convert the file. Apparently the workaround wasn’t working.) Thanks for your help!

[Kathryn Cates]

Yes, the audio file was already at 48 khz when I brought it in. Dropping the volume within FCP isn’t helping–it’s still popping, just more quietly. In Quicktime and in iTunes it sounds fine, so it’s clearly not the file itself. I’m convinced there’s a setting somewhere in FCP that I neglected to check.

[Kathryn Cates]

Thanks for the response. I’m working in FCP 4.5 and viewing my exported movie in Quicktime 7. This exported file will be one of several on a DVD (viewed initially on client’s PC, and then duplicated). I guess I just need to know which settings would be optimal to create an .avi file without any serious loss of information. (I thought the Animation setting was completely uncompressed, but in trying to create a Quicktime movie using it I lose information and am baffled as to why.)

These sequences are fairly short–all less than a minute.