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After you render?

Monitoring on external (NTSC or PAL) Video monitor?

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If you are using AVID. 😉

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It works for me.

Did you remember to turn “off” the video track before you tried the audio only edit?

Do you have the “Auto Select” buttons active only on the track(s) you are working on?

The “triangles” are just HALF of the regular ‘In’ and ‘Out’ marker icons.
They indicate you have marked a “hole” in the track.

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Do you want THREE video screens with THREE DIFFERENT sources of video?

Or THREE video screens with all the SAME SINGLE source of video?

Please explain.

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“Field Order” issues?

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I keep a tape “Master” for virtually every project I have done in the past decade.

When did this practice become uncommon?

For spots, I just keep a dub-reel that has all the spots in chonological order.
When it fills, I start another.
That way I don’t have separate tapes lining the shelves with one-spot-per.

Longer projects are on separate reels, of course.

Many places around town keep the tape masters for a period of time, then offer to sell the master to the client or destroy it for storage clearance reasons.

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[Mark Jackson] “Nest (items), name the nest, and click Ok.

There you have it. The Final Cut Pro video mixdown.”

Not quite, not always.

If you want a true “mixdown” you need to choose:

Export> Quicktime Movie > click “Self Contained”

That will give you a complete “dub” (new file on the HD) of the video you exported that can be re-imported to FCP for use in another timeline.

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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.

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Knowing this, I always send FCP’s output to DV TAPE first.

(Good to have a DV “master” of that timeline dubbed out of FCP, just in case, anyway.)

Then I connect a DV camcorder (home video camera, I’ve got a pile of ’em) and make my DVD copies from the DV camera via FW to the DVD recorder.

I can continue to edit on other projects on FCP while the DVD’s are recording with the full DV quality (no analog “steps).

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If this worked for you, I’m going to guess that the audio CD was recorded “out-of-phase” (a BIG “No-No”) and that YOU actually did nothing wrong with your original CD import routine.

Regardless, I hope the “fix” did the “trick” (for your “treat” on this day).

Please post back with your final results.