[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[coach] “So my audio will be recorded in two seperate mono (or will it stereo) tracks on my DV cassette.”

There is physically no difference.

A “stereo” track is, in its basic form, two mono tracks recorded and played at the same time.
There are other factors that would make the audio “true stereo”, but the camcorder and FCP “don’t care” if you want “stereo” or “dual mono”.

After capture to FCP (as long as you choose to capture both audio tacks) you are free to decide to individually adjust and mix each channel to either or BOTH tracks…

Or… choose to make them a “stereo pair” that will play “split” left and right and be adjustable as a “pair”.

But even a “stereo pair” shows up on the timeline as two audio tracks.

Nad IMHO, if you don’t like a little humor injected into the discussion… you’re in for some serious problems in THIS business.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Ty Ford] “What’s 12H?”

Sheesh, don’t you know?

Its 3 different meetings of the 4H.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Bret Williams] “He said he sped it up. Which makes it shorter. Which is why the audio is ending before the video. What part did you miss?”

Whoa there, why are you so angry about this?

Here’s the OP question:
[Wong Kwang Han] “I increase the speed of a clip to 1000% to get the speed up effect. The video is fine but the clip becomes silent after the initial one or two seconds”

This is how I read it:

1. He sped up “the clip” (Audio and Video)
2. The video is fine, but the audio (at 10 times speed) disappears (of course).

[Wong Kwang Han] “The high pitch speed up sound effect is crucial to what I want.”

He want’s the audio to be “sped-up” so the high-speed video has “sped-up” audio to go with it.
Since nobody (including dogs) could hear most frequencies sped up by a factor of 10 anyway, I suggested just using “2-times” to get a “useable” effect and, of course, it would have to be cut down to fit a very short video clip.

If you read something else, OK.
Holiday shopping getting to ya, Bret?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Bret Williams] “Why don’t you just duplicate it and loop it as many times as you need.”

Well, that would be fine if Wong was SLOWING DOWN the sound.

But speeing it UP 10 times (1000%), would make it 10 times SHORTER (as you said, mostly NOT THERE).

So there would be no need to “loop it”… that would make it LONGER.

But it might be useful to just speed up the original sound by TWO times (200%) and cutting it OFF (editing it down) to a very short section.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Reg Wrench] “I’m editing a multicamera concert shot on 27 cameras”

I’d also wonder what kind and how many HDs you are using.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Depends on the camcorder.

Certain Sony BetaCam camcorders experience(d) “capacitor rot” on the circuit boards. Very noticeable in the image and very expensive to have repaired.

But overall, there is no real detriment to not using a camcorder…

EXCEPT that it becomes obsolete (as they all do) with age.
And, since you’re not USING it, it tends to be a “useless waste of the technology” vs. the cost of buying it “too early”.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

I’m not clear on exactly what they want this for.
Can you explain in detail?

Why not give them a DV tape and have them convert it into whatever format they want?

They could also play QuickTime (for PC) if they just downloaded it from Apple.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

I don’t know about web hosting, but I did give your name to all of the LONG-DISTANCE PHONE SERVICE carriers and told them you might be looking for a change.

So, expect a couple of calls this month.

… Just kidding 🙂

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

You did not say what kind of Mac, how much RAM, what kind of Hard Drives, or what version of FCP. If you want more complete ANSWERS, you need to provide more complete QUESTIONS.

FWIW,
External FW Hard Drives are notorious for not being able to “keep up” with a sustained video/audio recording or playback. That’s why they are not “officially sanctioned” to operate with FCP.

Regardless, the MIXDOWN that I described should help you.

[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.