Help with audio clipping

Hi,
I'm very unfamiliar with the audio filters in FCP. I recorded a vioce using a mic and the voiceover tool, however some of my words get 'clipped' and it makes a annoying tick noice. Which filter and what setting are best used to eliminate that?
Thanks!!

The best remedy for clipping audio is re-recording at the proper levels. Once audio is clipped, its usually toast.
-DH

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Bill,
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Thanks! (Does it actually say that in the documentation anywhere? I try to RTFM, but the FM seems to be a little, er, mute on this point.)
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Flash Newbie needs help with Movie Clips/Action Scripting

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simultaneously and cannot, for the life of me, figure out what I
have done wrong. I'm new to flash, so I may have set something up
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Help with Movie Clips

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They do not have to be on the same layer, but they should not
exist on the timeline for the entire movie, just where they are
necessary.
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timeline. Mc1 (movieclip1) is on frame 1, Mc2 is on frame 11, and
Mc3 is on frame 21. Mc1 should only be on the timeline from frame
1-10, then it should not exist on frame 11. This way if you jump to
frame 11 only Mc2 will play, because Mc1 isn't on the timeline
anymore.
They do not have to be on the same layer.
It may help if you email me the file. My address is on my
name on the lefthand side of this forum post.

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Here's what I've done.
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Need help with audio...

Hi,
I need some help with an audio issue...a deep, buzzing sound which is so dominant, i can barely hear the rest
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I've begun to edit a short film (10 minutes) that has 3 hours of dailies. The clips are all merged clips, created with dual system audio and synced with Plural Eyes 3.
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Haven't set up the actual project yet. Just trying to
determine best method. Will be using Flash Pro 8.
Goal: create an initial page showing a TOC that represents
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Please help with audio problems, thanks!

Hi, I'm relatively new to DVD studio Pro and so far the manual has been useful but i've run into some sound related problems. I'm a composer/sound designer and this DVD is to be my reel so these are fairly integral issues to its success.
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Second, whilst most of the items on the dvd are movies that include my music, I also want to have a page purely of audio tracks which play when pressed without changing the page. How can i do this? The only DVD i've seen this done on is "The Thin Red Line" extras, promoting the soundtrack to the film.
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Welcome to the forum/discussions CC!
Sorry to have to inform you, but unfortunately layered menus aren't supporterd with audio in DVDSP, and technically what you're attempting is a layered menu-type function - although it just may be possible with scripts, I doubt it.
Your second request can be done however and there's several ways to go about doing it.
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