FCP AUDIO/ BURNING TO CD

WHAT IS THE EASIEST WAY TO BURN A CD FROM AN EDITED FCP AUDIO PROJECT?

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Capturing VHS through DV cam to FCP - Audio clipping!!

Hey all,
I'm capturing a VHS through my DV cam (it has analogue to digital version) and when it comes into FCP the audio is clipping (going above 0db)
Is there anyway to lower the input volume?
Thankyou
Paul

The camera doesn't let you change the input volume
What I did was:
Made the VIDEO ONLY go from VCR > DV CAM > MAC
But made the audio go to VCR > PC LINE IN > PC LINE OUT > DV CAM > MAC
When the audio came through my PC - I lowered the LINE IN volume so on the FCP audio level meters the audio peaked at -6dbs.
Not a bad idea hey
Lucky I had all the cables and connectors laying around.

FCP audio

I'm not getting FCP audio (with or w/o headphones) through my Mac, whether through sequence, canvas or viewer. It is showing up on the FCP audio meter, as well as on the meter of my VTR. If I plug headphones into my VTR, I can hear it there. It's only FCP, as audio from Quicktime, I-tunes and websites is fine. I do get an error tone if I try do do something not allowed on FCP. I've gone through my Apple and FCP preferences and settings, but haven't found a way to correct it. It happened suddenly, and I'm sure there's an easy fix, I just haven't found it.

Thanks. It was on "Audio Follows Video," when it should have been "Built-In Audio." It might have switched when I imported some decoded video from a DVD using MPEG Streamclip software. Not sure why it would do that, but at least I know what to look for. Thanks again.

Transmitted audio TC on FCP audio track - how to read the TC

Recorded transmitted audio time code on FCP audio channel. How can I convert this audio to Time Code so I can sync up the audio material to the video? Please advise, Thanks, Diego
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Just to add to what Jim said, you might have some luck with renting one of these...
http://www.rule.com/productDesc.cfm?productID=312#
or similar to lay you clips out to a tape machine that will take external time code.
Depends on what gear you have in-house.
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Whether / when to convert to PCM audio burning to Blu Ray discs

I have been exporting FCP Sony HDV sequences as QT self-contained mov files into Toast 10.0.2 and burning via a Lacie BD external burner onto BD-R discs. They look and sound fantastic. But was wondering, I have stayed with the Dolby stereo audio tracks for the process and let the BD player do the down sampling to PCM audio for the HDMI output to my LCD monitor.
Is there any advantage to my setting the encode to burn PCM audio tracks on the BD-R discs? Will this take longer? (already 25 to 30 hours encoding and burning a 90 minute QT mov file.)

I think you have it backward.
PCM tracks are uncompressed. You're compressing to AC3, and your DVD player is playing AC3.
PCM tracks will leave less bandwidth available for the video.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

FCP Audio is Quiet when exported to iphone or used with DVD Pro

I recorded a voice over with an external mic through a pre-amp into STP, boosted the db level of the recording in STP with the master gain on a channel EQ effect and exported it out as an AIFF file. I imported the AIFF into FCP, put it under video and adjusted the audio levels so the peak db is between -12 and -6 - everything sounds great from the canvas. I then exported the entire video to m4v to be played on an iphone and .mov (through QT not Compressor) to be burned with DVD Pro.
The audio on the DVD works fine in my mac computer and even works fine via blue tooth to my car stereo (using my iphone), but the audio is either quiet or slightly distorted (sometimes sounds like it's underwater) when played in a regular console DVD player or played on my iphone's speakers.
Here is what I have done so far - the STP audio is 48 hz 24 bit and I originally had my FCP sequence settings at 16 bit. I switched this to 24 bit midstream in FCP - is this an issue? Otherwise - I have tried a bunch of stuff, e.g. power line hum is negative in STP and there is very little underlying noise in the original recording based on analyzing with the Noise Reduction in STP.
Has anyone dealt with this issue or aware of a db/audio compatibility problem between STP and FCP or an export problem with FCP in this situation? Please let me know if anyone has any information or solutions. Thank you.

My export out of STP is 6 tracks - including a submix and a master - but I don't even use those (I'm not a seasoned user on STP - I basically exported them by mistake). I end up deleting 4 tracks (the submix and blank master) and keeping the stereo channel that I directly recorded.
However, by way of background, I had this same issue using a Garageband AIF file. It was too quiet and garbled upon export from FCP as well. That is why I switched to STP to use its better EQ/gain boosters. Please advise with any thoughts. Thanks.

APPLE vs. FCP audio filters

I have a basic question. I'm trying to do some documentation on the various audio filters built into FCP, and you've got the "APPLE" folder and the "Final Cut Pro" folder.
I'm not asking for an explanation of each filter, as theres lots of documentation on line and from various sources, and I also know these filters are not on par with SOUNDTRACK PRO for doing any real audio fixing, but I have one simple question I'm just trying to get the answer to, so I can in turn explain it to others...
Why are there two sets of filters, APPLE and FCP? I can guess that FCP created those filters in their folder, but, then what are the APPLE filters...why are they seperated out?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks.

This may be of assistance:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/basic_audio_filterguide.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/basic_audio_filter_guidept2.html

Why won't FCP X burn the menu background image when sharing directly to DVD?

At one point recently I was able to drop in a jpg file so that FCP X would display this image in the menu background when a disc is burned directly out of FCP X when sharing directly to DVD. It worked at first, and then I decided I needed a higher quality image, but this one won't burn. My DVD now just has a black menu background. I can't figure out why this is happening. Please help! I'm using a late 2008 MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz 15" with OS 10.8.4. FCP X is up to date as well. My harddrive is fairly full in case that might cause some errors. Are there any specs on what type and size an image FCP wants for this function? Thanks for any help!
Gregg

Thank you, reducing the image size worked! I had used a low res file before, and with success decided to increase the resolution/size, and then it didn't work. the image did appear in small preview in the export panel, but wouldn't burn when all was said and done. the dimensions you gave worked fine. unfortunately, it makes the image a little bit fuzzy, but i dont think i can do anything about this. at least it burned it in there. thanks!

FCP - Ken Burns affect

Is there a way to modify still images in FCP similar to the Ken Burns affect found in imovie?
I have been unable to find anything in the manual.

Here is a video tutorial from our resident guru Shane Ross:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rossshane/movement_onstills.php
These video tutorials are pretty good and there are loads of them on creative cow...a nice way to keep in touch with what's out there.
Hope it helps...
Susan.

Importing Audio & Burn CD

I would like to down load audio from a digital voice recorder (Olympus VN-!000) to Mac G5 computer that has iLife 06 and burn it to a CD. I don’t have a clue were to start. What is the easiest program to use and how? Pleas direct me to a support site.

Hi rob,
sure that can be done:
a) look at the back of your VCR... any "audio-out" plug? or get a scart adapter with three colorful chinches/female...
b) get another adapter, stereo mini>>chinches/male, put in iMac audio-in
c) plug all together...
d) launch Garageband
e) hit play on VCR
f) hit "record" in Garageband....
g) edit track
h) export "to iTunes"
i) burn audioCD with iTunes....
one more thing:
iMovie is an edit app meant to work with firewire connected miniDV camcorders

Imovie + garageband audio burn with toast?

Hello all,
I've been following this procedure:
1) Place all video clips in iMovie HD
2) process my voice over narrations with GarageBand (male narrator noisy)
3) Put the GarageBand enhanced audio into iMovie
4) Create the DVD with iDVD
My question is can I use Toast instead?
That is can I still burn the DVD with Toast with the audio that I processed in GarageBand?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Mike

mac shy wrote:
.. My question is can I use Toast instead?
you posted in the iMHD-section of this board.. which is vers 5 (five) of this app. answer differs on version of iMovie
answer: yes.
after inserting the GB-audio into your iM-project, save it.
quit iM.
launch Toast, select videoDVD
drag iM-project into Toast..
... done.

Audio crackling killing FCP audio but not in stand alone QT player

I have a file I recorded in IShowU.
When I load it into final cut every once in a while I get a large crack and pop from the audio that kills my speakers requiring a reboot. If I play it through headphones it still cracks but it doesn't kill the audio.
If I play that EXACT same file in Quicktime stand alone player it plays perfectly. However, if I export the file from Final Cut and try to play it in Quicktime it has the same pops as it does in Final Cut.
Any ideas?
This is FCP 6.0.6

Did you ever solve this problem? I'm having the same issue with some audio in a FCP project. It was fine last night, but when I hopped on my machine this morning to work on it, I played the project and now have a segment of audio where it just gives a large pop/crackle and kills the speakers. If I have my headphones in, it keeps playing and there is the loudest static you've ever heard. The weird part is there is other segments of audio from the same clip in other parts of the video and they're fine. Additionally, when previewing the segment that crackles in the viewer window, there aren't any problems. It only happens in the timeline.
FCP 7.03
Macbook Pro 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
OS X 10.6.4

FCP Audio Clips in Soundtrack Pro - Marking the Start & End Points

When I double click on an audio clip that I've sent from FCP into Soundtrack Pro I seem to open up the entire media file.
How do I lock off or at least mark the clip start & end?
I don't see any markers that tell me which part of the clip is actually used in the imported FCP sequence.
I only want to make (non-destructive) changes to the clip.
I don't want to alter the original media file.
And I just want to work on the part that's used in the FCP sequence.
It makes sense that there's a way to show the start & end points of the clip but I'm just not seeing it.

I am a bit of a newb here, so pardon if my explanation is a little unpolished, but I have been working on some of my projects like you are and this is what i figured out. I select my sequence in FCP and send to stp as a multitrack project. The whole audio timeline shows up just as it looks in fcp, and the video track shows as one large clip that is made up of all my cuts put together. Now, my audio tracks are all on one line, and i can see all the clips with their cuts on the sequence. I click the first one and open it up to work on in the waveform editor. At that point i see the entire audio clip, including the part before and after my cut that i am using in my sequence, but i also see, up near the playhead, gray markers that show the actual part of the clip i am using in my edit. It is easest to hit shift-z to look at the entire clip on screen, and then find the grey markers. Also, if you play audio before the in marker, you will hear it but you will see that the video is not playing anything, then once you enter into the in-out section the video will play along, and when you pass the out marker the video freezes as the audio keeps playing. Hope this helps.

Fcp audio normalization

I recorded a dress rehearsal of the Music Man, a local production. Since I was closer to the orchestra than to the actors (who all wore mics connected to the House speakers), the audio required a lot of tweaking, using keyframes in the Viewer. I worked with eight different clips in this way. Now, at the end of the project, should I normalize the audio? And, if so, should I do it clip by clip, or is there a way to normalize all the clips at once? Thanks for your help.

Jerry, You asked me to get back to you about my normalization question in fcp. So, after doing a **** of a lot of audio adjustments manually, using keyframes, I made a new Sequence, copied the original and normalized the whole track (which included a lot of Timeline edits). I then exported both Sequences and made a DVD of each one in DVD Studio Pro. When we listened to each DVD on my home entertainment system, the normalized track sounded better. In a couple of places, I had brought up the gain on quiet segments of on-stage conversation using keyframes. In one case I brought it up from 0db to 11db. And still, on the non-normalized version, the conversation was too quiet. In the normaized version, this conversation was definitely louder, without clipping, and it fit better with the loud orchestra segment that surrounded it.
Thanks for asking,
Robert

Fcp audio problem

Hi all.
When i try to import a wav,file everything is ok..
but when i drag it on the timeline i have ****** audio and when i am
playing the same file in the viewer everything is fine ..
Does somebody know what to do ..
Thanks

i have **** audio<<</div>
Don't know what **** means in this case, but if your audio's specs don't match those of your FCP Sequence, then you may have problems or at the very least, have to render the audio. For example, if your Sequence is set for AIF format, 48khz, 16 bit, then you should convert any non-conforming audio to that spec prior to importing. QT Pro can convert to and from most formats you'll encounter.
The reason that it plays fine in the Viewer is due to the fact that the Viewer's output isn't constrained by the Sequence settings.
-DH

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