[Michael Moore]

That is what I thought. I thought a second was a second and that the band only played at one correct speed.

Presonus Studio One does have a master clock. It isn’t rated in FPS, but in sample rate. From what I am learning 24 FPS (or in my case 23.976) is associated with 48k audio. 44.1 audio would more likely line up with 22.5 FPS (not that 22.5 FPS exists) but that is how I understand it.

On a lot of forums I see people mentioning a drift, and 2:3 pulldowns and all that stuff. My problem is that the clips are obviously the wrong speed. Not a frame here or there, but off by about 9%.

I recorded everything at 44.1, so in my project file it says that S1 (Studio One) as well as my sound card are running at 44.1. If I recorded in 48, then when I went to open up my project file, it would automatically switch over to 48. In short, it is a per-project setting.

[Michael Moore]

@ Oliver:

I downloaded QT7.7 from the apple website, but when I go to install it, it says I can’t install it because QT X is already present. I tried my other drives, and it said it has to be loaded on the same drive I boot from. I don’t know if there is a work around for this.

I don’t have a copy of FCP7 because I was messing around with it over a friends house and I honestly felt like its over my head. My friends say how great it is, but to be honest I do live sound for a living and am looking to add “band trailers” to what I do. Just snippets of live performances with really good audio so that bands can promote themselves, which in the end will get me more gigs. I played around with iMovie before FCPX and feel like its dummied down interface suits my needs well. I honestly wouldn’t know what to do with some of the more advanced features that FCP7 offers.

I do trust my recording system’s clock though. It is a Presonus digital mixer recording over firewire to my Macbook Pro. I just think the problem is that I didn’t know I should of recorded at 48 when I plan on syncing with video. Now I know, but am still stuck on how to get my files speeds to consistently match. If the video I got didn’t look as good as it did, I would just scrap this project and try again.

Thank you
Mike

[Michael Moore]

Good Question! I just took the audio from the on board camera and put it on a new track in my Presonus Studio One project, and the audio is still off. Same results, on board audio is quicker. Seams like its not FCPX that messing the timing up, rather the actual files are different speeds.

I didn’t use guide track (I actually had to google the term). I am a drummer / musician myself, so I though I would be able to pretty easily line things up manually. I still feel like I could do it fine as long as the speed of the audio matched up.

What would you recommend I try next?

Thank you for your patience with me.
Mike

[Michael Moore]

I should mention that when I went to line the files up, I did it manually by moving them into place with the video in the main timeline, and the audio beneath it. I got the files to be in sync for a few seconds, then the audio would “drag” behind it. FCPX determined correctly that the audio is 9% slower. I just wish I could get FCPX to conform speed for every audio file I have, and with some consistency.

The footage is a multiple small clips (1-2 minutes each) of a band playing, which I’m ultimately trying to sync to full song mixes that I plan on chopping up to match the length of the video files. Once I’ve replaced all of the onboard camera audio with the really good sounding multi tracked audio, then I will actually start the video editing process.

Hope this helps.
Mike

[Michael Moore]

I used a Presonus Studio Live console to record into Presonus Studio One software at the sampling rate of 44.1 (I didn’t know I should of used 48). I mixed the files multitrack (We had an individual channel for each instrument) and exported the file @ 44.1 (which it was recorded at). When I brought the wave file in to FCPX the speed on the audio was a little slower than the video. I tried exporting the multitrack recording at 48, but it didn’t change the speed, just the tags that says what sampling rate it is.

I know from last night that the difference in speed between my video and the multi tracked audio I got is 9%. The multitrack is 9% slower than the video and the audio from the onboard microphone.

What is really making me crazy is that ONE TIME when I pressed the conform speed button in FCPX, it set my “good” audio to 109% which perfectly made it match the video. Every other time I press this button it doesn’t do anything. I can manually adjust the audio to 109%, but there is a little room for error in that you can move the file’s timing a tiny bit forward and backwards and it still be 109%. What I would really need to do this manually would be a read out of like 109.25%, that way I could perfectly duplicate what FCPX did for me that one time. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

@ Oliver: The only version of quicktime I have is quicktime 10, and it doesn’t have any options for exporting the files differently than the way they are. I do have Compressor, but I didn’t seam to have any luck with a change in speed when I ran the files through there. I tried exporting my multitrack as an AIFF file, and then tried pressing the conform speed button in FCPX, but it didn’t do anything. Is there another advantage of using AIFF files over .Wavs? Coming from a non-video sound background, .wav is the only format I am used to exporting to.

Thanks guys!