Clicking noise when playing MP3 tracks.
This faint clicking noise started today in FCE 4.0.1 I have read some bits online about perhaps the CD's were old and that was the reason when I transferred the songs into MP3 to drag into my video clip. I have played the songs on iTunes and there is no clicking noise. Also I have music in my iTunes that I got off the internet and it works fine too in iTunes, but starts the clicking when in FCE.
Also I have gone to other works I have created on FCE in the past and I have the same problems with the sound that I never use to have.
Anyone have any ideas?
FWIW, no version of FCP or FCE has ever worked natively with the MP3 audio format or even with AIFF audio at 44.1khz (CD Audio sampling rate). This has been well documented in the User's Manual since version 1.0. While you can import non-native audio, it will require rendering to play properly. But even with rendering, MP3 files can often exhibit clicking and other abnormalities.
-DH
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PCM_SIGNED 8000.0 Hz, 16 bit, mono, 2 bytes/frame, big-endian
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Update:Start
200
1200
1450
1700
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