Locking Non Synced Audio To A Sequence

I have some old audio files ( mostly that came - using old drum machines) - that I want to sync to logic.
In digital performer 4.6 - I am able to highlight a multi bar drum track - then click " analyze audio" - and it makes an attempt to guess at the beats per minute. Then I can change the sequence to that BPM - then slide the audio drum track ( and all other related audio tracks) - and match up the drum downbeats to the beginning of a bar - and thereby lock non-synced audio to a sequence very easily.
Question: how do I do this in logic 7.11?

Beat mapping is probaly what you want
if you have an exact loop use adjust tempo using region length/locators

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I sync multiple video and non-sync audio all the time. It really helps if there is a clap or other distinct noise recorded on all the devices at the same time. Then you can identify it with a marker in the source window on each clip and either let the mulitclip create a multiclip sequence (if you plan to edit multicam) or just bring each one into the timeline on its own track.
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Dear All,
I have not had a problem with this before, but suddenly I have out-of-sync audio when mixing six channels in FCP. Using my Canon XL1-S, I recorded 4 channels of audio in 12 bit mode, 32 khz. I then added another two channels of audio from a separate Sony digital recorder into the FCP edit. First I set the sequence settings to 32khz and ran everything in 32 bit mode, converting all of the audio through Quicktime pro. The 4 channels from the Canon XL1-s are in perfect sync, but the two channels from the Sony digital are playing at a faster speed and are drifting as the movie progresses...the length is 1:25:00. I then went back and converted everything to 48khz and changed the Sequence settings accordingly, but the Sony audio is still drifting and playing more slowly than the other two channels. What am I doing wrong and how can I bring all of the audio together? Thanks. I'm working with FCP 6.0.6 on a Mac Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.6. Barbara Smits

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Barbara Smits wrote:
I have not had a problem with this before,
meaning you have done this exact procedure successfully before?
but suddenly I have out-of-sync audio when mixing six channels in FCP. Using my Canon XL1-S, I recorded 4 channels of audio in 12 bit mode, 32 khz. I then added another two channels of audio from a separate Sony digital recorder into the FCP edit.
What is the format of these Sony files?
. . . the Sony audio is still drifting and playing more slowly than the other two channels.
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Allright, since nobody out there seems to have the answer - I'm going to share what I discovered so that the next person will actually get an answer without having to spend hours and hours finding it in other forums. Here goes:
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2- In your sequence settings, change the compression setting to Apple Pro Res. This is the setting I decided to go with, as I'm currently awaiting the 10 hour render.
I did do a quick and dirty test on the ProRes option, where it appeared to work. Since the audio is correctly synced in the beginning of the video and then slowly falls out of sync (obviously the 30p to 29.97 problem), I had to run a test using my entire sequence. If you run a test on a 2 minute sequence, it will appear to be correct, because it is a slow falling out of sync issue - the problems occur later in your project (just fyi). Here is what I did (in case you want to try it on your project):
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Since my audio issue was most likely due to the fact that I captured and edited in 1080 30p, I believe it must be a bug in FCP that exports the Quicktime movie in 29.97 regardless of whatever your sequence settings are (believe me, I tried to change it to 1080-30p and it didn't work). That is why I think the Apple Pro Res option works, but it involves a total re-render of your project. This is also why I believe it plays fine in the timeline, because my timeline was set to 30p. Again, I also believe that is why my export to BluRay through Share resulted in correctly synced audio - the bluRay export I believe uses the Pro Res codec (which, by the way, took 19 hours).
Wish Apple would fix this bug.
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Syncing audio to clips after making the cuts -Adobe premiere pro cs 5.5

Hello Everyone,
I am using adobe premeire pro cs 5.5. I have adobe prodution premium suite. I have completed my cuts with a bunch of clips in each sequence. None of them had audio, so I made all the cuts without the audio. Now I have got all the same files with audio in it. Is there a way to re-apply all the cuts I made to the files with the audio so that I can get the audio in the timeline corresponding to the clip? I tried opening the same project and tried linking the the new files with audio, it didn't work. Please let me know.
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VJ

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Hey my friend and I are making a music video and we're wondering how to lock a clip to a segment of audio. Cause we have the video and music synced but then if we add a clip or delete a clip, the whole video is out of sync. Is there a way to lock clips to audio segments with iMovie? Thanks in advance!
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Syncing Audio and Video but wish for the Audio not to move on timeline?

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I have a music video shoot with 14 camera angles used on the lead singer (don't ask me why). Multi-camera editing is not an option as there are too many sources for my brand new MacbookPro to handle. I think I would need the computer from Superman II to edit that many clips together.
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File plays fine, then I get "Error Syncing Audio and Midi"

Hi, I just installed my upgrade to Logic 9 from 8. When I play a file , it goes fine at first, then if I save it, a crackling sound takes over and I get a message like "Error syncing Audio and Midi". Saving the file is not the only thing that will cause this to occur but I can't pinpoint exactly what and when these other times happen.
I did some troubleshooting with an Apple Rep by phone the other day and it seemed we had it figured out that the problem was about bringing projects over from Logic 8 and opening them in Logic 9. The suggested solution was to export audio tracks from 8 and import them into 9 as a fresh project.
It then seemed that when I started a project from scratch in Logic 9, I had no problems. This no longer seems to hold water as a theory. The problem I'm having now is with a project I started fresh in Logic 9.
When the crackling sound starts, the play speed seems to slow down as if I were playing an old 78 on the wrong speed or something.
Also I can't bounce to make an Mp3 in Real time - that causes this crackling sound/speed issue to occur as well. When I try to bounce an Mp3 offline, it re-hashes the first Mp3 I did and I don't hear my changes even as I choose to replace the file. This is screwy,...really.
I appreciate any assistance or ideas on this.
Thanks, Frank B.

I was getting the same issue last night with a stereo track and one instance of Addictive Drums with just tom fills and a few crash cymbals in the sequence. I thought it might be a AD issue because I assigned a multi instrument to AD which is not necessary but I forgot that. I deleted the multi instrument and this seems like it solved it for me. I just ran the track and no Midi Audio sync errors or the crackling sound. Do you have any multi instruments in your setup?

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I have an iPhone5 and I'd like to have both the music and the radio show audio files on it. I have the iPhone5 set to sync with the iCloud. Unfortunately only the music shows up on the iPhone5 via the iCloud. No radio show audio files.
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Thanks for the super-quick answer! Looks like that might work. You actually go 'right click,' then 'get info' and then change Media Kind from Music to Podcast. When I do that, the file disappears from my list of songs as you would expect, but doesn't show up under Podcasts in iTunes. Not sure where it went! Maybe if I wait a while it will show up in the Podcasts app on my iPhone5?
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I'll post an answer if either or both of these approaches work. Thx.

No audio on imported sequences?

Hi,
I've made my short film in parts in separate projects so that my computer could handle it more easily. Now that I'm done editing, I want to combine all the sequences, so I imported them all into a "final movie" project, but none of the audio works. It was working at first when I imported, I think it happened after the program crashed, I re-opened it and suddenly all the audio from my sequences was gone. The audio that I put in afterwards, outside of the sequences (songs and stuff) still works.
I've tried searching here, but none of the solutions I found worked. I've tried Match Frame with the CTI on the necessary sequence, that doesn't work (it does however work if I press shift+T and go into the sequence, then Match Frame, but my audio is very complicated and this only works with the few clips that still have linked Audio + Video, so this is not a viable solution for me). I also tried unlinking and then re-linking the video and audio of the sequences as someone here mentioned, but that didn't help either (unless I did it wrong; what I did was right click the sequence, select 'unlink', then select both of the now separate video + audio, right click, and click 'link' again)
I'm really upset with Premiere's ability to make everything so stressful, this was supposed to be quick so I could get my project done on time,but now thats looking rather grim. Any urgent help would be greatly appreciated!

A crash may have corrupted either your preferences or your working project
Reset Preferences = Press/HOLD Ctrl+Alt+Shift while starting program
What may help is to open a new project and import your old project
Also... what KIND of files?
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811?tstart=0
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below
For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
For Mac http://mediainfo.massanti.com/
Once you know exactly what it is you are editing, report back with that information... and your project setting, and if there is a red line above the video in the timeline, which indicates a mismatch between video and project

Need Assistance with syncing audio/video

Alright, I hope you guys can help with this because I've looked high and low and can't find any answers.
Here's what I'd like to do. I'm using Premiere CS3 to edit HD footage shot on a Panasonic HVX2000 (in .mxf format). Audio was recorded separately on a Marantz solid state recorder.
I bring the video clip into the timeline, and then delete the onboard camera audio. Then I bring in the audio from the Marantz. Using the slate I sync the audio and video together. Then I link both files.
NOW...
The problem comes with what to do next. What I want to do is create a new subclip that features the synced audio and video. I want to be able to go through my footage, sync all the sound, put these combined files back into a bin for later.
OTHERWISE... the way I see it, I'd have to re-sync every time I wanted to bring in another instance of that clip... or have an instance of EVERY CLIP in my film on the timeline at once for me to pick and choose from.
In Final Cut Pro (which I had at school but don't have now), you could just drag the linked audio and video clips from the timeline to the Project window and it was automatic.
Can someone PLEASE help me figure out the equivalent function in Premiere? Even looking in the user manual there's a heading for creating subclips from the timeline, but then there's nothing under the heading explaining it.
Thanks in advance!
-Nick

You can use a
nested sequence to accomplish what you want.
Cheers
Eddie
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Insert a video clip with audio in a sequence

I've created a sequence out of three subclips and renamed and saved it. When I try to add another video clip with audio to the end of the last subclip in the sequence it only adds the video, not the audio.
Please advise

Edit the video with sound to your timeline, when you are ready to replace the video with pictures, lock the audio tracks by clicking on the locks at the left side of the timeline:
Clicking on the locks will lock the tracks and will protect them from being affected when you replace the video with pictures.
Remember to unlock them when you want to edit or add more audio to the sequence.
MTD

"Error while trying to sync Audio and Midi"

"Error while trying to sync Audio and Midi" I have been having this problem now and then for some time. Now, I can't run any audio files without a lot of popping. I tried all the suggestions on the support document for this issue. I even downloaded new drivers from Motu for my Express XT Midi interface and my 828MK11 Audio interface. There has been no change. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!
Also, I have tried reseting the 828 to factory default and that does not help.
Jonathan Jenkins

Hi,
I solved my own problem by resetting the factory presets:
Follow these steps to restore the MOTU 828mkII to Factory Default Settings.
Disconnect the firewire cable from the 828mkII
Press the Setup knob
Turn the Setup knob all the way to the right
Press the Select knob
Press the Value knob
Power off the interface and plug the firewire cable back in
Power the interface back on
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AppleTV not showing non-synced content since upgrade to iTunes 8.1.0.52

Prior to upgrading to 8.1, my non-synced content showed on my AppleTV (when iTunes was open on my computer). Following the upgrade, the only content showing on the AppleTV is content that is synced to it.
iTunes can see the AppleTV and I can sync content to it. Under "Settings" for the AppleTV I have "Custom Sync" selected and the "Show only synced content on my AppleTV" box is not checked.
Any ideas how I can get non-synced content to show again in the AppleTV?

That's exactly what I did, it took ~20sec to complete the "apply to enclosed items" command (there was heavy disk access), but it does not improve. The permissions stay the same for the files/folders in question. It's very odd, have a look at the screenshot:
Some folders have correct permissions, others (to which I have no access through iTunes) show "admin" twice as the only user who is allowed to write. Repair permission does not help. I have hundreds of files/folders where permissions are wrong, only since the upgrade recently.
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/33/permission.png
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Error: sync audio & midi

Hi,
I've searched the forum and it seems that a lot of people are having this problem - although I haven't found a solution.
I am getting the following error message:
"Error while trying to sync audio and midi. Sample rate 42572 recognized. Check conflict between logic express and external devices".
Here's what I'm using:
Intel MacBook Pro, OS 10.4.8
M-audio Midiman 2x2
Old Yamaha Clavinova controller
When I was using a powerPC iMac, everything was fine. Now that I'm using this macbook pro (intel), I'm having this error come up every 5 seconds during playback and recording.
What can I do? Is this an Intel compatibility problem or is there something else going on?
Thanks!

Yes. I've increased buffer sizes...
I copied the file over to my power PC mac and everything is working fine. I have a feeling it's just a compatibility issue with using a power pc program on an intel mac.
I will try downloading the intel update. If anyone else has any other suggestions, please suggest!
Thanks!

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