[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[noahcurtis] “whats an easy way to censor audio in songs and words that people are saying?”

If you want to “bleep” it out, just cut in some audio from from “Bars and Tone” Generator during the offending syllables.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Well, you COULD lay the tracks on the timeline, export them as AIFF, convert those exports to 48kHz with iTunes or Quicktime Pro, then import them back into FCP.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

It is essential when attempting to monitor the QUALITY of images in FCP that you use an external NTSC VIDEO Monitor (or PAL, if that’s where you are).
Especially after you render…
the Canvas is never high-quality (by design) and should not be used to make determinations of image quality of clips or graphics.

Video Processing tab.
“Normal” is default for all Sequences.
Change this to “Best” and text should clean up.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

I’m going to guess that some of the problem comes from the DVD having no TIMECODE or PRE-ROLL.

An edit system uses those functions for feedback to know what’s happening with a deck (if its rolling, etc.)

Since the DVD unit likely does not “send” anything like this back via RS422, the edit software doesn’t know how to handle the commands.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Do you mean audio “LEVEL-compression” or compressing the audio FILES into another format?

Big difference, similar name.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

I don’t ever have sync or other problems with 32kHz files.

Try exporting the audio and convert it to 48kHz with iTunes or QTPro.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Each still is a separate clip.
Just scale the first clip correctly,
then Apple-C (copy) it
then select ALL of the rest of the clips on that same track and
hit Option-V (paste attributes) and
choose “Basic Motion” and/or any of the other boxes that you want.

All of the rest of the clips will then match the first one’s adjustments.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Could be.
Could be something else.

Ye$$.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

IMHO, you should AVOID USING the “native” FCP Titlers for any kind of serious work.
They are simply the worst titlers I have ever seen.

For regular titles, use Title 3D (Boris) included with FCP.

For subtitles:

Check out the popular Belle Nuit subtitling package
https://www.belle-nuit.com/subtitler/

And there is an INEXPENSIVE ($20 !!) subtitle plug-in from Digital Heaven.
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_subtitle.ph

Closed Captioning:

https://www.robson.org/capfaq/

https://www.ccaption.com/nccwork.shtml

https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php

More info:

https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php
https://www.ccaption.com/nccwork.shtml
https://www.robson.org/capfaq/

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.