Extreme Audio Distortion and Loudness occurs randomly...

Extreme Audio Distortion and Loudness occurs randomly...when I open an old FCP project.
There seems to be no logic behind when it happens.
And the audio was fine the last time the project was saved...
Anyone know why this happens, I feel like I'm the only one who might have this issue

No you are not the only one.
Do a search in this forum.
But I haven't it seen reported for the last few months, so maybe this solved with some update.
If the search does no help you, you need to give us some more information about the specs of the audio/movie files, sequence settings etc. And on the versions of FCP OSX and Qicktime, as well as information about how the audio is coming from the speakers (internal audio, AJA or Blackmagic card, etc)
Rienk

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