[Thomas Culhane]

When I imported my “Making Robots with my Arduino” song as an .mp3 it didn’t matter what sequence preset I used, everything had the red bar and everything needed constant rendering. I looked at the clips Aud Rate and Aud Format in the Browser and found that the Aud Rate was 44.1 KHz, which I could select in the Sequence Settings, but that the Audio format was “32-bit Floating Point” and the Sequence settings only gave choices for 8-bit, 16-bit and 24-bit. Reasoning that this was the problem I used Audacity to export the .mp3 of my song as a .wav file that had a rate of 44.1 KHz AND 24-bit. When I imported that into the new sequence (set to those audio formats) everything worked fine. I’m still using Final Cut 5 (back from when I was a student) so maybe they’ve changed things now, but I hope this helps some other folks who are having trouble!