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Larry Elin
May 31, 2011 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Audio “shrinks” on QT output and DVD input

Hi Dave. I will check that once again. It is a big project with many video clips, in sequences, but the audio file itself is just one big aif . The confusing part is that I can output an audio file that is correct by using Compressor, or by exporting a QT consisting only of the audio. But when I export a QT of both audio and video, using “current settings”, the length of the whole QT is wrong, and the audio is shorter…the video lags behind. Thanks for your help.
Larry Elin
May 31, 2011 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Audio “shrinks” on QT output and DVD input

I followed this advice, as well as something else I had read about using SunflowerBed to overcome some kind of driver issue. As soon as I changed the preference in DVDSP to drop frame, the audio times in the assets panel switched to the correct ones, and sync was restored in the simulator. I’m burning a DVD now. I am still having difficulties outputting a QT directly from FCP and getting a movie that syncs. But, I can breathe easier thanks to al of you!
Larry Elin
May 31, 2011 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Audio “shrinks” on QT output and DVD input

Mistyped on the resolution. Playback of QT is NOT the problem. Already tried what you suggest and that is when the problem first popped up. I, too, thought that the playback of the HD QT movie was just sluggish, and everything would be OK after putting the QT into compressor. But no, the audio file that popped out of compressor from the self-contained QT was, in fact, shorter than the video by 3 seconds. I went back into FC and checked that all the settings were what they had been for months — because of all of this worked fine up until a couple weeks ago. Nothing different.
Larry Elin
May 21, 2009 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Trouble with HD footage audio sync

Thanks, I’ll try to convert it to another codec. There is a reason for using imovie to capture digital video, even when editing in FCP. If you start and stop recording without rewinding your recording tape a little, you lose your timecode. This can happen, and did. Imovie allows you to capture video clip after clip in realtime without all the pre-roll drama of FCP. I’ve done this many, many times in the past, with both HD and SD video, creating clips and importing them into FCP, with no problems whatsoever. However, as you point out, you wind up with clips that have been compressed using something AE doesn’t like. Oh well, without all these technical interoperability problems, just about anybody could do this stuff.