Steven Gonzales
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Now what is the item properties on the sequence you are putting these into?
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Don’t think about timecode frame rates.
Open one of your audio clips with quicktime, then under “window” menu select “show movie info”.
What is the format of the audio? 29.97 df, ndf, 30 ndf is all frame rates for timecode, they are not rates for audio.
Then open one of your reverse telecine clips with quicktime, and do the same thing. What is the format?
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On dual system film, sound and picture are in sync (assuming the devices are working properly) when captured.
Then, during telecine, the picture is slowed down by .1% to fit evenly onto 29.97 video.
So to sync at 29.97, you have to slow down the audio by .1% to sync.
If you also reverse telecine to 23.97, you have removed extra video frames, but you are still slowed down, and to sync audio you have to slow it down by .1%.
Your other choice is to conform your reverse telecine clips to 24 fps in Cinema Tools, and edit in a 24 fps timeline. If you do this, you have sped the film back up again. In this situation, you could sync the unchanged audio.
I think you have either reverse telecine clips at 23.97, or if you have reverse clips at 24, then you have placed them in a 23.97 timeline, and they remain slowed down.
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Sample rate is what determines audio speed.
If you have 48,000 samples per second, and that is in your 30 fps timeline, you have 48,000 / 30 samples per frame of video, or 1600 samples per frame.
If you take that audio to another program, that runs at 29.97 (the program might call this 30, causing confusion) then you have 48,000 samples per second, in a 29.97 fps timeline, and since 48,000 samples still occupies 1 second, there are 48,000 / 29.97 samples per frame of video, or 1601.6 samples per frame of video.
Placed back in a 30 fps sequence, the 1.6 sample difference per frame would be 1.6 sample difference * 30 fps * 60 second * 12 minutes, or 34560 samples played sooner in your 30fps sequence after being reference to 29.97 in another program.
34560 samples, at 48,000 samples per second, is 72% of 1 second. 72% of 30 frames per second is 21.6 frames. There’s your 22 frame difference.
By taking your sound to another program, you’re referencing it to 29.97. By conforming it and some connected video in compressor, you are re-referencing it to 30.
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If you’re shooting DVCAM and finishing DVCAM then it seems you don’t need a video card right now. You could handle all that via firewire.
And for your drive and raid card, you should search posts here and then call one of the companies recommended (many advertise here) and get the whole solution from them.
If you don’t want inherent problems, then I think you should start simple entering the FCP world, and add on as your expertise expands.
You could also go to a Value Added Reseller and get a complete solution, configured for you and ready to go.
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Select one of the dulled out tracks, and see if clip enable is checked under the Modify menu, or control-click on the clip to see if clip enable is checked in the contextual menu.
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If you have your old machine, I’d put the drive back in, and export an XML just to be safe.
Before that, maybe try running system update again, because you need to run it a couple times to get all updates. It appears your old system was updated beyond the current state of your new machine.
The old warning about not upgrading during a project might apply also, for future consideration.
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Since the headings are FAQ ADD A NEW POST SEARCH and CHANGE FORUM, perhaps users assume that this is a forum use FAQ, and not application specific.
Perhaps changing the name to FINAL CUT PRO FAQ might get a few more hits.
It’s not surprising that people that don’t have any perspective on Final Cut Pro would also not have any perspective on which forum to post onto. Consider beginner posts a chance to practice patience.
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Perhaps you might want to consider a mixer that is also a midi controller, and it would be useful for audio mixing within Final Cut as well as monitoring audio.
Some are using this model, although I have no experience with it:
https://www.tascam.com/products/fw-1082.html
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How full is your system drive? If it’s too full, you could have problems.