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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Audio (AIFFs) goes out of sync when transferred to another hard drive

It’s a really awful problem.

I can’t see why Final Cut wouldn’t import audio with some kind of universal time-stamp.

There is also nothing to suggest that this process even happens on import. It’s completely invisible.

Thanks for the help everybody, I think I know how to go about fixing this now.

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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Relinking Audio Files to Project

Isn’t it just?

Have a look at my other thread. There’s a possible solution from Matt Lyons there:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1134885

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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Audio (AIFFs) goes out of sync when transferred to another hard drive

Very good!

Thanks Matt. This is useful information.

I’m still not sure why the problem would happen even when making an identical copy of the same media to a new drive, same machine, same FCP, same project, but I will read through and hopefully find some answers!

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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 3:46 pm in reply to: Audio (AIFFs) goes out of sync when transferred to another hard drive

Actually, I’m not sure this can be the issue.

I did a test – all on one machine, one copy of Final Cut and within one project – where I took the media residing on external drive A, copied it to external drive B, then hid the original media (drive A) from Final Cut by putting it in the Trash. I then relinked the now offline sound files to the new copy on drive B, and got the same problem: start and end times different, and when relinked the sound was out of sync with the video.

Odd, no?

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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Audio (AIFFs) goes out of sync when transferred to another hard drive

THAT’s an interesting one.

I wonder… It might take a bit of detective work then! I did actually have an issue with some sequences that had defaulted to the wrong time-base (23.98 I think). This might explain it. Maybe the easy setup on that machine was wrong to start with!

I’ve been working on Avid recently, so avoiding this little minefield of different editing timebases etc within the same project.

So the audio files get time-base stamped when you bring them into the project… Is there any way to change that?

How would you recommend dealing with the problem of some footage that’s gone out of sync as a result of this happening? Is there another way to relink those files?
Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Audio (AIFFs) goes out of sync when transferred to another hard drive

48khz, 24-bit

The sound was slowed down in Compressor to 100.15% of the source duration in order to match our video.

(another story: Video was recorded on a Canon 5D, for some reason the video and audio did not match and sync would drift over time).

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Tom Werber
June 10, 2011 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Relinking Audio Files to Project

Having the exact same problem. What is going on here?

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Tom Werber
August 9, 2009 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Puppet Tool IK?

IK and bones for the puppet tool would be nice and are things we can hope to see in the future. In the mean time, you can establish rigid IK relationships

between pins using expressions.

Hi Dan,

Could you give an example of an expression to do this?

It would be extremely useful!

Thanks!

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