[Tom Wolsky]

Go to Sequence Settings and set the number of audio outputs you want.

Right-click on the track headers and change the tracks to go to the channels you want them to go to.

Use File>Export>Audio to AIFF(s).

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

5.1 is only available through a crossgrade (see the Apple web site) or a direct purchase of a new copy. There is no downloadable version of 5.1 available to customers.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Feedback in the Final Cut Pro menu.

Actually I’m in Hartsville, SC at the moment.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Afraid not. Good feature request, been asked before, but nothing’s happened yet.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

The slogan is “Edit Anything,” but it left off the “but only one thing at a time.” What marketing touts and what the application does may not be the same thing. Yes, I’m talking about 5. The fact is that anything put into the FCP timeline has to be converted to the format and settings the the timeline is in. Period. It’s not a true multiformat timeline. Sure fast computers can do a lot of this in real-time, or semi-real-time with dropped frames and proxy playback, but that’s not the same thing. Not what Vegas and Avid are doing.

It’s actually much harder for the computer to do different streams of audio in different formats that have to be mixed in real-time than it is for one stream of video. On the video track the heads are only reading one file at a time. On the audio tracks they have to read multiple tracks simultaneously. They’re lucky enough to do multiple tracks in one format.

You’ve been watching too conspiracy movies. Pinnacle is dead, long owned by Avid, and CineWave has been dead even longer, essentially abandoned years ago by Pinnacle, a PC based company, before it was bought by Avid. Pinnacle long had a record of buying good companies, sucking their one good product dry, and abandoning development on it. They were a crappy, crappy company and being taken over by Avid was the best thing for everyone.

I’ve expended enough energy on this. I couldn’t give a toss about MP3, whether it works or not. My point is that there are much more important things to fix and do in the application in my view than MP3 playback. New things are broken in FCP5 like XML export and import, which is a major killer, and long time things have yet to be made to work properly, like merged clip and freeze frame media management, and a true multiformat timeline are just a couple of them.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

https://www.fcpbook.com/Video7.html

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

It can’t handle it because the application is not programmed to handle multiformat streams, video or audio. Handling multiformat video streams is a big deal and should be implemented. If this is only done for MP3 that would be bullshit. It’s so simple to convert, just friggin do it.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Huh?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Which ones can’t you ease Captain?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Tom Wolsky]

Control-click on the center point keyframes in the timeline and select ease in/ease out.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD