[Timothee Pineau]

Hi guys,

I’m not sure wether it is too late or not to contribute to this, but I stumbled on this thread while looking for the solution to that exact same problem.

I couldn’t find anything to solve it (other than re-dropping the multi cam clip on the timeline and re-cutting). Until I noticed that my waveform on the newly dropped file was different than the one which had the “clic bug”. I went on to check the Angle editor to see if there was any effects on my initial multi cam audio (especially the audio track of it … none).

And then it came to my mind that Final Cut allows to also drop effects etc on the cutter multicam straight on the timeline. (Which is useful when you want to apply selective effects to different cuts of a same multicam clip).
There is was: Noise-reduction.

The clic/lostframe however it has been called was related to it. Desactived, no more clicking to be heard.

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I went a bit further though and tried to activate the noise-reduction on the audio track from within the angle-editor. Same issue.
I guess it is because the noise reduction does not really makes it measurement on the whole audio track. And no matter where you activate it, it does always makes its measurements on the timeline cut and not on the overall clip. Bug in FCP … not sure, might be. But there might be some underlying reasons that I ignore for it…

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I’m quite sure most of you that had the issue had it without effects and this angle-editor/timeline view issue I had. But thought it might be worth sharing in case it happen to someone else. Noise-reduction = no go with multi cam.

Solution is in the end to apply noise-reduction separately, export the audio, re-import and done … not really convenient I agree.