Audio emergency (disappearing audio clips)

I've been working on a pretty complex edit for about 18 hours straight, and about 30 minutes ago I'm previewing a scene and suddenly the audio drops out. I look down at the timeline and the waveforms have disappeared from three audio clips. The clips are still there, but the audio is gone. This audio is all from one source file, and other clips using that audio work fine. I can't imagine what I did or what happened to cause this, but it's a problem I can't afford to let linger (needs to be done by tomorrow morning).
It might be a simple solution, but if anyone can help me out it would be greatly, GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Randy

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public static var THEME_17:String = "drinks";
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public static var TOPICS_BIKES:Array = ["bike1","bike2","bike3"];
public static var TOPICS_SWIMMING:Array = ["goggles","flippers","rubber_ring"];
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public static var TOPICS_BOOKS:Array = ["book1","book2","book3"];
public static var TOPICS_MOVING:Array = ["box1","box2","box3"];
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public static var TOPICS_SEASIDE:Array = ["sandcastle","bucket","spade","crabs"];
public static var TOPICS_TREES:Array = ["tree1","tree2","tree3"];
public static var TOPICS_BOATS:Array = ["boat1","boat2","boat3"];
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var l_aTopics:Array = new Array();
var l_aChosen:Array = new Array();
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case THEME_1: l_aTopics = TOPICS_SPORT.slice(); break;
case THEME_2: l_aTopics = TOPICS_MUSIC.slice(); break;
case THEME_3: l_aTopics = TOPICS_PETS.slice(); break;
case THEME_4: l_aTopics = TOPICS_FLYING.slice(); break;
case THEME_5: l_aTopics = TOPICS_NEW_TEETH.slice(); break;
case THEME_6: l_aTopics = TOPICS_HATS.slice(); break;
case THEME_7: l_aTopics = TOPICS_BIKES.slice(); break;
case THEME_8: l_aTopics = TOPICS_SWIMMING.slice(); break;
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case THEME_10: l_aTopics = TOPICS_SHOES.slice(); break;
case THEME_11: l_aTopics = TOPICS_BOOKS.slice(); break;
case THEME_12: l_aTopics = TOPICS_MOVING.slice(); break;
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case THEME_14: l_aTopics = TOPICS_FILM.slice(); break;
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case THEME_16: l_aTopics = TOPICS_FOOD.slice(); break;
case THEME_17: l_aTopics = TOPICS_DRINK.slice(); break;
case THEME_18: l_aTopics = TOPICS_SEASIDE.slice(); break;
case THEME_19: l_aTopics = TOPICS_TREES.slice(); break;
case THEME_20: l_aTopics = TOPICS_BOATS.slice(); break;
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l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(l_aTopics);
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return l_aChosen;
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public static function fGetRandomTopics(p_nItems:Number):Array{
var l_aTopics:Array = new Array();
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if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_2) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_MUSIC);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_3) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_PETS);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_4) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_FLYING);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_5) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_NEW_TEETH);
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if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_7) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_BIKES);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_8) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_SWIMMING);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_9) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_ZOO);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_10) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_SHOES);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_11) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_BOOKS);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_12) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_MOVING);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_13) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_CLEANING_TEETH);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_14) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_FILM);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_15) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_DRAWING);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_16) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_FOOD);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_17) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_DRINK);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_18) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_SEASIDE);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_19) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_TREES);
if(CURRENT_THEME != THEME_20) l_aTopics = l_aTopics.concat(TOPICS_BOATS);
l_aTopics = Randomise.fRandomise(l_aTopics);
return l_aTopics.slice(0,p_nItems);
public static function fGetThemeByTopic(p_sTopic:String):String{
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_SPORT)) return THEME_1;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_MUSIC)) return THEME_2;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_PETS)) return THEME_3;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_FLYING)) return THEME_4;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_NEW_TEETH)) return THEME_5;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_HATS)) return THEME_6;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_BIKES)) return THEME_7;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_SWIMMING)) return THEME_8;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_ZOO)) return THEME_9;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_SHOES)) return THEME_10;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_BOOKS)) return THEME_11;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_MOVING)) return THEME_12;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_CLEANING_TEETH)) return THEME_13;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_FILM)) return THEME_14;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_DRAWING)) return THEME_15;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_FOOD)) return THEME_16;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_DRINK)) return THEME_17;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_SEASIDE)) return THEME_18;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_TREES)) return THEME_19;
if(fIsInList(p_sTopic,TOPICS_BOATS)) return THEME_20;
return "";
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var l_n:Number = p_aList.length;
var l_b:Boolean = false;
for(var i:Number = 0; i < l_n;i++){
if(p_aList[i] == p_s){
//trace("!!! ** match >> " + p_aList[i] + " matches " + p_s);
l_b = true;
break;
return l_b;
public static function fRandomTheme():String{
var l_aThemes:Array = [THEME_1,
THEME_2,
THEME_3,
THEME_4,
THEME_5,
THEME_6,
THEME_7,
THEME_8,
THEME_9,
//THEME_10, << removed the shoes topic as we didn't have the audio for it!
THEME_11,
THEME_12,
THEME_13,
THEME_14,
THEME_15,
THEME_16,
THEME_17,
THEME_18,
THEME_19,
THEME_20
var l_s:String = String(Randomise.fPickRandom(l_aThemes));
CURRENT_THEME = l_s;
return l_s;
public static function fGetHeader(p_n:Number):String{
var l_sHeader:String = "Can you find " + p_n + " people who ";
l_sHeader += fGetActivity();
l_sHeader += "?";
return l_sHeader;
public static function fGetEndTxt(p_n:Number):String{
var l_sTxt:String = "That's brilli-Ant! You found " + p_n + " people who ";
l_sTxt += fGetActivity();
l_sTxt += "!";
return l_sTxt;
public static function fGetActivity():String{
var l_sHeader:String ="";
switch(CURRENT_THEME){
case THEME_1: l_sHeader += "played sports today"; break;
case THEME_2: l_sHeader += "are learning a musical instrument"; break;
case THEME_3: l_sHeader += "have a new pet"; break;
case THEME_4: l_sHeader += "have been flying"; break;
case THEME_5: l_sHeader += "have lost a tooth"; break;
case THEME_6: l_sHeader += "are wearing a hat"; break;
case THEME_7: l_sHeader += "can ride a bike"; break;
case THEME_8: l_sHeader += "went swimming"; break;
case THEME_9: l_sHeader += "went to the zoo"; break;
case THEME_10: l_sHeader += "have new shoes"; break;
case THEME_11: l_sHeader += "read a book"; break;
case THEME_12: l_sHeader += "are moving house"; break;
case THEME_13: l_sHeader += "cleaned their own teeth"; break;
case THEME_14: l_sHeader += "watched a film"; break;
case THEME_15: l_sHeader += "drew a picture"; break;
case THEME_16: l_sHeader += "baked a cake"; break;
case THEME_17: l_sHeader += "made a cup of tea"; break;
case THEME_18: l_sHeader += "went to the beach"; break;
case THEME_19: l_sHeader += "climbed a tree"; break;
case THEME_20: l_sHeader += "have been in a boat"; break;
return l_sHeader;
public static function fGetSuggestion():String{
var l_sTxt:String = ""
switch(CURRENT_THEME){
case THEME_1: l_sTxt = "How many sports can you think of that you play with a ball? How many of them have you played?"; break;
case THEME_2: l_sTxt = "Do you know any songs? Why not sing it right now?"; break;
case THEME_3: l_sTxt = "How about taking the dog for a walk? You don’t have a dog? Take someone else’s dog for a walk!"; break;
case THEME_4: l_sTxt = "Not everyone can go flying, but everyone can fly a kite! Why don’t you make your own kite and see if it flies?"; break;
case THEME_5: l_sTxt = "Have you got a wobbly tooth? Don’t forget to put it under your pillow when it falls out!"; break;
case THEME_6: l_sTxt = "Does your Mum have a hat? What does it look like on you?"; break;
case THEME_7: l_sTxt = "Can your Dad ride a bike? Why don’t you ask him?"; break;
case THEME_8: l_sTxt = "Can your Mum swim? Why don’t you ask her?"; break;
case THEME_9: l_sTxt = "How many animals can you think of that begin with the letter M? Ask someone else and see who thinks of the most!"; break;
//case THEME_10: l_sTxt = "shoes..."; break;
case THEME_11: l_sTxt = "What’s your favourite bedtime story? Can you read it to yourself?"; break;
case THEME_12: l_sTxt = "Have you ever moved house? Why not ask a grown-up about a time when they moved house?"; break;
case THEME_13: l_sTxt = "Have you cleaned your teeth today? I hope so! How many toothbrushes are there in your bathroom?"; break;
case THEME_14: l_sTxt = "What was the last film you saw? Do you have a favourite? Ask a grown-up to tell you about their favourite film!"; break;
case THEME_15: l_sTxt = "You can draw your news too! Draw a picture of what you did today!"; break;
case THEME_16: l_sTxt = "Have you ever baked a cake? Cooking can be fun - and if you make something delicious, that’s definitely news!"; break;
case THEME_17: l_sTxt = "Fruits make great drinks. How many different fruits can you think of that you can drink?"; break;
case THEME_18: l_sTxt = "You can do lots of different things at the beach. How many different things can you think of?"; break;
case THEME_19: l_sTxt = "Can you see any trees outside the nearest window? How many can you see?"; break;
case THEME_20: l_sTxt = "Why don’t you make your own boat and see if it floats in the bath?"; break;
return l_sTxt;
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Also I am not a native English speaker so I might have explained my case a little vaguely, sorry about that.

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I have video (with stereo audio from a camera mic), and for each take, there are also four additional mono audio tracks that line up with it. It was footage shot outdoors in the city, so I guess the filmmakers just wanted to have as many options for sound mixing as possible given how much background noise there would be. I have tried selecting the video clip and the four audio clips at once and selecting "synchronize clips," but it doesn't work. It spits out a synchronized clip that seems to have converted two of the mono tracks into one stereo track... and then disregarded the remaining two mono tracks. It's a mess. It's likely someone else will fine tune the audio once I'm done cutting the video together... but I'd like to get all the audio tracks properly synced from the start. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Do you mean manual syncing? I've been reading this thread about workaround, which aren't working for me: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/21236
But the question they are asking is the same one I am asking. Isn't this a typical situation, having multiple mics for one camera? For example, if someone filmed a concert with one camera but used both the camera audio, and ambient mic, and a mix from the board, then that would be 3 audio tracks with 1 video track. I'm in a similar situation, and I'm finding it hard to believe that FCPX isn't equipped to edit this way. There must be some way to get one video clip (with reference audio) to sync with four audio tracks.

How do you apply multiple songs or audio clips to one slideshow?

I created a large project, 200+ slides. I wanted to to use multiple songs so when one ends a new one comes on. Everytime a dragged a new audio clip from Itunes it just replaced the other song.

You have to make one "song' in iTunes that includes all the songs you want to play.

How can I match sound quality between video clips and audio clips?

Hi guys,
First of all let me say that I enjoy using the latest Media Encoder. However, as a novice, I have two related problems.
1.I am recording video to use with PowerPoint slides in Adobe Captivate. I am encoding the video with best quality FLV. This produces very good video,
      but with a degraded audio track, even though I had filtered the audio in soundbooth. The post encoding sounds like it did before Soundbooth corrections.
2. Some of the video recording has been set cut into audio clips to be used as background narration behind PowerPoint. The logic behind this is: that if both are
      recorded at the same time, the voice quality should match.
This is far from the outcome. I have tried MP3 for the audio which of course produced the best sound- but is entirely unlike the rest of the video. I have also encoded the audio with Windows Waveform preset figuring that since the soundbooth edit was a .wav file, that there should be a reasonable match. Wrong again!
So, the audio quality of all clips is poor, and the difference between the encoded video clips, and the audio encoded clips spoils the otherwise professional result in Captivate.
Please help, all of you experts.

Thank you.
OS Windows 7 x 64; 3.2 MHz; 2 TB; 12 GB Ram-9GB ram allocated to Adobe.
My process is this:
1. The whole video and audio narration material is shot in one continuous video sesseion.
2. The microphone is only mono, but the camera is set to stereo. Noone can work out how to change the camera to mono.
3. In Premiere Pro 5, I select render and replace in SoundBooth.
4. In Soundbooth, I choose Add Multichannels.
5. In Multichannels, I delete the unwanted noisy channel, and any other unused channels.
6. With the remaining mono channel, I then select Export and Save As option, then Stereo.
7. Next I edit the stereo channels as needed.
8. The imported stereo won't automatically update in Premiere Pro, so in PPR I import the new edited stereo track.
9. I test this track in PPR, to check that it is playing R & L channels. It is. OK.
10 On the timeline, I proceed to cut apart this single stereo wavelength .
11.These clips are saved as Video, or Audio subclips.
12 From the video subclips, I export to Media Encoder, and choose either FLV4 match attributes (High Q). This I modify to custom 2 pass (Custom save).
     The summary says that this is saved to MP3 Stereo.
13. I import this into Captivate 5, but the Video outcome is Left channel only. I have tested this on Media Player/Real Player where it is also L channel only.
14. I export my Audio subclips to Media player, and select MP3 option and this summary also reports stereo. The Audio outcome is stereo, when played in any player and in Captivate 5.
I cannot understand how a single, continuous track edited uniformly in Soundbooth to stereo, can produce different outcomes in Media player.
I would so appreciate a solution to this problem, because, in the Captivate 5 e-learning production, the switch between stereo audio (behind PowerPoints), and l. channel video is distracting. Naturally, the l. channel only is a thin sound. It is as if it had never been edited in SoundBooth at all.

How can I make all 40 audio clips the same volume?

Hello, all!
I'm finishing up a General Orientation video for new employees in Yellowstone National Park and am-this-close to being finished!
I'm creating the video in Premier Elements 9 with some video footage and some still photos blended together. (Yes, I tried to "Ken Burns" it... he would laugh out loud if he saw my version!)
I've narrated most of it in individual WAV. clips that I've inserted into the audio timeline under each video segment.
I have about 40 audio clips, and even though I used a decent microphone, I still find that each clip has a slightly different volume that is really noticeable when the video DVD plays on TV. I'm realizing that I should have made an effort to keep a standard distance from the mic when recording.   Hindsight is 20-20.
I have been trying to change the volume on each clip to make them all the same volume, and it's making me a little crazy.
Is there any way for me to capture all the audio at one time and make an adjustment that would make all of them the same volume?    I tried CTL-A and then did "normalize" on it, but it seemed to make very little/or no difference when viewing.
Any advice would be really appreciated!
Signed, the lone creative video girl in Yellowstone.

You are most welcome, and it has been a great day. Thanks!
Good luck, and pay close attention to the differences between Clip Keyframes and Track Keyframes. They accomplish the same result, but have differences.
Good luck,
Hunt

How can I tell if an audio clip is .m4a or .aiff?

I have some audio clips in a song that I dragged/dropped a few weeks ago and I cannot remember if they were rendered as m4a or aiff. I tried clicking on the clip itself but I see no option for "get info" or anything like that. I also tried using the finder which does tell you, but unfortunately I used the same title about ten other times so that won't work in this case.

Did you try my suggestion?
WH
Yes, and it presents the same dilemma as the finder option since I have multiple files with the exact same title. Example: My song has an audio clip titled "Leah" because that is the name of the girl I recorded on that track. Unfortunately I used that title six different times. So if I use Finder or your suggestion, I type in "Leah", and it gives me all 5 files, all the exact same music and duration and I have no idea which one is the one being used in my song.The only way to know for sure is to do this from within GB, and I cannot believe there isn't an option for this. Thanks for offering to help though.

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