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Hi-
I re-edited the audio portion of two short films, 5 mins each, in final cut pro 4.5. Then I went to Export > to Quicktime movie and let it convert to a quicktime file. During playback within QT I noticed that short parts of the audio, maybe 5 seconds, were dropped. You can hear all of the voiceover but not quite all of the background music. Much of what I did this time around was to turn the backing music down a bit, in addition to cleaning up the vocals. The vocals I hear. Sometimes the music disappears, only to reappear.
When I play the whole thing in Final Cut Pro, I hear it exactly how I want it.
I never had this problem using the same applications 5 months ago when the sound was a bit over the top. Can someone please advise?
Thanks!

Well quite. I have just tried it in the internal hard drive and it works fine now. I am going to have to capture everything to my small hard drive and move it across to the external. Then, when I have finished I am going to bang my head against the wall and buy an external HDD with Firewire.
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Ally

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