[Michael Weitzel]

Hi Paul,

here is what I ended up doing (worked for me):
1. Save the full clip you want to sync as a self-contained MOV file
2. open the MOV file in QuickTime
3. Export the audio tracks as AIFF (Export: Sound to AIFF; Use: )
4. import the audio track into your project
5. Place the un-sync’ed clip on the timeline
6. move the playhead 1sec into the timeline (if you have to adjust it here exactly depending on the on the lag you have with your material)
7. Drag the new audio track to the timeline (onto audio track 3 & 4) so that it snaps to your playhead at 1sec
8. Mute the original audio channels of the clip
9. check that audio and video are in sync
10. Save again as a self-contained MOV file and reimport it into your project
11. use the new MOV file to do your video editing

Hope this makes sense… =)

Mike.

[Michael Weitzel]

Thanks Walter, I hear you! Just to clarify though I seem to remember that I had an issue when I moved the original media clip, but I seem to remember that when I reconnected it to the new location that the sub-clips were still ‘in order’. Are you saying that is not the case? For sure when the source material is corrupted this would be, well… a problem. =) -Mike.

[Michael Weitzel]

Hi Elin, (maybe out of ignorance) I work similarly (also no power-user!). What I end up doing is to import a whole tape as one clip into FCP. Then i work through that clip and cut every scene into a sub-clip which I then name according to my liking. What I usually do is use a sequential number to start with and then if I have already a rough idea of the sequences I add a sequence identifier and then a descriptive label for the sub-clip (e.g. “074 Seq2 cat jumping off fence”). I then use Bins for organizing the material for each sequence

There will probably be a lot of eye-rolling about this ‘system’ but so far I haven’t found anything better for myself… – Mike.

[Michael Weitzel]

Got it fixed now.

[Michael Weitzel]

Oke doke, am not sure whether the issue was TOO basic but I got it fixed.