Dropped Audio Tracks

When I export a sequence using the "Export QuickTime Movie" (no conversion) I sometimes lose audio at random points.
It happens sometimes when it's an additional track beyond the first two, but then sometimes it will drop the first two tracks also.
As a result I have to use the conversion, but it takes longer.
What am I doing wrong?

Sequence>Render Only>Mixdown. I know it was there in FCP 3, so it should still be there.
Sorry for not being specific in my first answer.
Shane

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when you create a track with control-shift-return,
that's the way it's supposed to be. If you want to
create a new track and a new audio object assigned to
it, "create with next instrument" is the way to do
it. You could also use "create multiple..."
in the drop down menu it says that the key command for 'create with next instrument' is control>shift>return.
If you're limited to 24 tracks, I'd check in your
audio preferences. Your maximum tracks limit is
probably set to 24 tracks.
my audio preferences are set to 64 tracks of audio.
thanks for the reply!

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Desha Dunnahoe wrote:
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I've just re-titled a question I posted this morning :-
Has anyone ANY idea how high we can fly with numbers of audio tracks on 8 core 3 gig with 10 gig of ram? (my spec below)
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dick the flick wrote:
This is really interesting. I've naively been using 256 the whole time. Just finishing a movie score in 5.1 (for the first time away from Logic /TDM combination) ...... and couldn't understand why the PLAY french horns sounded like they'd been badly pitch changed when I added some HD space designer reverb ..... is could that also be a symptom of wrongly set i/o buffer?
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So dropping everything onto audio also helps. Is that even the case with 10 gig of RAM available? The manual seems to suggest that this buffer is taken outside of Logic's RAM.
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dick the flick wrote:
I follow here with great quote from a movie I scored called "Grand Theft Parsons" (I notice you're in Nashville and it a was a movie about the stealing of Gram Parsons body)...... Al perkins played pedal steel on the score
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dick the flick wrote:
.... if running lots of audio with huge track counts ..... set the buffer higher but don't necessarily use the plugin samplers live?
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Colin Brougham wrote:
... would like to know for the future how to resolve this issue.
If there is no way to get the 2nd audio track then i would consider that to be a bug that hopefully Adobe can fix in next patch.
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Don't use a DVD, plain and simple. The fact that we can edit this stuff at all is just a handy shortcut that works most of the time. I suspect that, given the nature of the material and the far greater precedence for native editing of professional camera sources, this is about as good as its going to get. You can certainly report it as a bug (which its not) or request it as a feature, but I sincerely doubt that this would be given a great deal of priority.
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