Exporting Final Sequence from FCP....

Hello all:
I am trying to export a wedding video out of FCP 4.5 and am having audio problems. It seems fine for he first 30-40 seconds and then the audio breaks up for about 5 seconds and then drops out altogether. The Video doesn't appear to have any problems. When I go back and reopen the project in FCP it plays back fine audio and video. I am exporting the final sequence (collection of nested smaller sequences) as a self-contained quicktime movie, NTSC 720x480 DV, both audio and video. It's 1hr, and 40 min project, (Lots of LONG winded toasts), shot on DV and normal wedding music aiff format. What am I missing, or doing wrong?
Sincerely,
Frustrated...

I remember having to do a mixdown in each of my nests when dealing with this issue in 4.5.
You can also do an end-run around FCP's mis-management of the audio renders by manually throwing away the audio render files for the project in the finder and re-opening the project.
You might also try using the Advanced Format Conversion in Compressor, as that should ignore any pre-rendered material from your sequence.
Also, I have seen this problem when combining 44.1k audio (from a music CD) and 48k audio (from digital video) in the same 48k sequence. You might find it helps in the long run to re-export the CD audio as 48k and replace the music in your sequences.
Hope this helps -
Max Average

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