Sound porblem in FCE4.0.1

I have a six sequence project 'nested' in the Timeline of that FCE4.0.1 project. When the sequences are opened, one at a time, the music tracks play just fine. When seq 4 is opened, rather than stay nested, the music track often, but not always, suddenly drops in volume. Then a bit further on it regains the lost volume. So - each sequence opened - all OK, when nested, one music track, often, has a sudden drop. Can anyone solve this for me? Perhaps relay the whole piece of the music.
James Bowman

Try Mixing Down the audio.
It's in the Sequence cascade menu.
Al

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there is anyone that can help me in finding sounds and Jingles to use with my FCE?
I try to access to the ones in iMovie, but without success.
Many thanks and Best Regards

Ian Brown posted this the other day:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2145872&tstart=120

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I've just got FCE4 and I've encountered some problems. I've managed to overcome the "Not Rendered" issue, but now while I play the imported video already on the timeline, on the canvas, no sound is played. Not from the .dv files, and not from the mp3 file I just imported... This is a pain in the bottom, because I'm trying to make a narrational clip (like a review, you know) and without sound, I can't even start really editing what I want to do..
is there a solution to this?
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okay.. so I have EyeTV 250 Plus with which I can export to the following applications:
Web
iMovie (tho its broken)
iMovie HD (tho its broken)
iDVD
DVD Studio Pro
Toast
PSP
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Apple TV
iPhone
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iPod (Smallest)
iPod (Fastest)
iTunes
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HDV 1080i
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Greetings

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Please provide info about the camera and the actual footage it shot.
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if it works with a dvd all is well
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I'm new to all of this video editing stuff, but basically I'm looking to convert all of the home movies my dad has made over the years to a digital format, edit them with FCE then burn them to a DVD to send to family members, etc.
Is this a good solution? Most of the reviews I've read on the ADVC110 and FCE4 have been mixed. Some people claim they have no problems while others say they could never get the 2 to work properly.
Or if anyone has any other solutions, I wouldn't mind reading them..

FCE may be "overkill".
Look at the Canopus ADVC300. Audio and Video go in, FireWire comes out. It also comes with a nice Macintosh application that works flawlessly with iMovie 06 and iDVD 08/09 (I have used it a few times with iMovie 09 and FCE). The software that comes with the Canopus ADVC300 has some incredible filters that can improve the picture as well as the sound. I sometimes use it to reduce the background "hiss" found in some tapes. Well worth the price. The ADVC110 comes with no software.
http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC300/index.php
Your primary workflow is editing DV clips and making DVDs, iMovie '06 may be better suited. Your movie will arrive at iDVD in DV format, which is an ideal match for making a DVD: same resolution, same pixels, same aspect ratio, and original quality. If you share your movie from iMovie '08 / 09, it gets re-rendered at 640x480 or less, and then iDVD upscales it back to 720x480. The end result is obviously not as good.
iMovie 06 and iDVD 08/09 is a "lossless" combination.
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My Panasonic HD camcorder will only record in HD, with no option for Standard Def.
Can FCE4 convert HD footage so I can convert it as if SD and then transfer to DVD (rather than Bluray Disc).
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You say that when you tried iDVD earlier you got jerky footage.
This sounds rather like the problem I discovered 18 months ago with my HDV camera.
Still shots were reck solid but any subject or camera movement (panning) resulted in unacceptable judder and shimmer.
There are 2 workarounds I eventually came across.
1. Use your camera to down-convert to DV-PAL as you capture and edit it as DV. However, if your camera can't down-convert you will have to use method 2.
2. Edit your AIC in the timeline. Then create a new DV-PAL (NTSC) Anamorphic sequence. Copy your edited HDV/AIC to the new sequence. Do not alter anything. Render the sequence ..... this will take a long time - up to twice the length of the project. Then File>Export>QuickTime Movie (Not Self-contained).
However, if you use the QT Movie in iDVD you will get a squashed 4:3 movie, so first of all you must make QT stretch it out to its proper 16:9 dimensions like this:-
a. Open the exported movie file in the QT Pro player.
b. Go to Window>Show Movie Properties.
c. Select the "Video Track" and in the "Visual Settings" panel uncheck "Preserve Aspect Ratio".
d. In the "Scaled Size" box set the width to 1024 pixels for PAL.
e. The "Video Track" will have turned grey, so click it to make it blue again.
f. The opened movie file will jump to 16:9.
g. Close it with the red button and click Save.
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FCE4 Many problems

#1 When I import an XML file from iMovie 08, If I try to playback the video and audio at the same time its tells me I have dropped X amount of frames and freezes. If I mute the audio tracks the video plays back with no problems.
#2 If I import directly from the camera Via Firewire the video is jumping while capturing and then when I go to playback the video is running at twice the speed as the audio, then after a few moments it once again freezes due to dropped frames.
Steps that I have done.
Spoke with one of the Mac techs at an Apple store andthey have never seen a system do this.
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1. What format was the project that you exported from iMovie? What do the render indicates show in the timeline?
2. Sounds like a hardware problem. Could you give complete details of your system, camera, format, and settings used?
3. Sounds like a RAM problem, may be related to 2.

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I just ordered a new i-mac (my first btw!) and am trying to figure out a few things. Mac won't get here for a couple of weeks since I upgraded the ram and video card, so I can't test my questions yet.
I want to shoot some simple "how to" instructional vids for some motorcycle parts I sell. I will host them via You-Tube. I plan to use the Video function of my DSLR Canon T1i (500D) which shoots Full HD video at 1920 x 1080 resolution with HDMI output for HD viewing of stills and video in MOV format. I saw a few comments in the 27" i-mac reviews section suggesting that the SD format was having issues with importing of video to FCE.
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I will be using some music in my vids and would like to be able to do easy voice overs, but nothing crazy soundtrack wise. Is there no sound track editing in FCE4?
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The problem with your camera is that, like 95%+ of the market, it is a compromise, trying to be a jack of all trades, combining video with stills and aimed at people who generally don't want to do any serious video editing.
As such, the designers have not concerned themselves as to whether it will be compatible with existing editing systems as most users will simply want to view their all the footage they shoot or at the most just cut out a few bad bits.
Almost every other camera that has been introduced in the last few years seems to have been given its own unique format which is totally incompatible with everything else. It makes the VHS/Betamax etc. wars of the 1980s seem like a walk in the park.
To answer your question about about AVCHD, it is the most popular high definition format in the consumer market and will probably take over everything unless/until it is superseded by some, as yet unannounced, format.

IMovie08 as a rough cut editor for FCE4?

Hi All,
(I know there was a reference by Euisung Lee on this topic but no replies are currently allowed hence this new post...)
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5317430
I'm interested in the experience of anyone using iMovie08 as a rough cut editor for FCE4.
Why do I want to do this?
* I love the sheer speed of putting together videos, even lengthy ones, in iM08.
* Also the integration with the iApps
* Love having an accessible skimmable library of all my DV
What I can't really live with in iM08...
* The poor titling facilities
* I've been trying the titling workaround noted in Karsten Shluter's website (ie. import a semi transparent TIFF or PNG from Photoshop and drag it onto clips). This works great except for one of my key projects where iM08 accepts the image file as normal, but doesn't display any overlayed image in the viewer.
* Also concerned about the loss in quality on export (for DV files)
So...I'm thinking about the following workflow...
a) import DV to iM08 (no loss in quality)
b) within iM08, perform rough cut video selections, and intersperse with image files from iPhoto (gives a documentary feel with video + stills)
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d) so then in FCE4 perform the titling, KBE on the photos, edit the audio and do any effects such as slowmo etc...
I'm hoping this is a 'best of both worlds' solution in that I keep the speed factor in pulling together the backbones of the project, but also gain the functionality of FCE4 for the other components.
My questions
1. Does this work effectively - has anyone tried it? Any traps which would make it more cumbersome than I'm anticipating?
2. Does FCE4 need to re-import or convert the original DV clips referenced by the iM08 XML. Does this duplicate the source files? Is there any loss of quality in the files then used in FCE4.
3. Following from #2, will the export quality from FCE4 be superior to what I'm currently getting in iM08? (Noting that the majority of my output needs to end up as a DVD...not yet living in Steve J's DVD-less world yet)
4. Has anyone run into the same titling/image overlay problems as I'm having with iM08.
A big thanks to the regulars who provide a huge source of great info here for us all...

Hi Joey,
thanks for appreciating my post ..
.. do you think using iM08 as a rough cut editor in this way could work?
I guess, that is a way..
when iM08 araised, in one of my posts, I said, skimming would be on my wishlist for FCE4 .. skimming is, imho, excellence in UI design.. a 'switchable' timelne in FCE (skimming mode/timeline mode) would really speed up editing.. (if speed is an issue )
.. it appears that this workflow would also get me around the iM08 export quality issue.
as far as I understand the process, there's no loss in quality in this process.. the xml is just 'in-/out data' (like Midi in audio processing) and you transfer/clone the raw imports from iMEvents to FCEproject... I'm not indepth will this workflow, I guess, you double the data = hdd space issues.. but, +you never have enough space while doing video+ ...
.. It sounds like putting KBEs into photos is harder in FCE than iM08
I'd like to phrase 'different' ..
less intuitive, but with much more options (e.g. rotation, transparencies, multi pic, drop shadows ...) and with more control (e.g. no automatic 'smoothing'/acceleration as in KB/iM, creating 'paths' of movement .. .)
with some craftmanship, you could create a slideshow looking like those 'Themes' in iMHD6/iDVD ...
fo sure harder, but imho .. better ...
.. _I assume_ that FCE4 would operate in the same way as FCE3.5
me too, vers3.5. here, no hands-on on vers4 ...

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.. but the fact that Apple wants iMovie 08 users to go and learn how to use a second app (Garageband), just to edit some audio, when it was so easily done with iMovieHD, seems very counter-productive to me and is one of many reasons why I can never see myself investing in new iLife software, until such time as Apple brings out a real iMovie HD update, which I am not holding my breath for either. ..
we shall not comment on Apple's strategy (ToU), but as an Apple 'fanboy' and iM user since vers2 I'd like to comment on that...:
'til vers6, iM was a 'rest of us' NLE .. in its complexity, in its options, in its handling of sources (restricted to 'real' videocams) and delivery ...
now, we see AppleTV, HiDef rentals in iTS - and HiDefcamcorders, 50" Plasmas .. and that YT phenomenon .. shakey, unsharp, snippets of moving pixels..
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I'm used to iMHD2,3,4,5,6 too.. but I made the switch to FCE .. iM08 is a toy .. I use it only to participate here and due to integration into other iLife apps, mostly iWeb.. we have a wrong perspective here on this board: nobody edits his/her homevideos! Explain me the reason of existence of DVDcorders.. how silly is that! a video-polaroid! and now this Flip-thingie.. !!
editing, real editing, with 'ducking' audio, adding music, titles, themes ( ! ) , drama, segments, story telling.. this is very, very few of consumers.. that is a pro-sumer (I LOVE marketing lingo) feature..
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... and I upgrade my vers. 3.5 of FCE, when skimming is integrated as an 'views options' into some forthcoming version of FCE ..

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Yes, I see them. It doesn't come up as "Video 1: Live Type" when I add it to my preferences, it just shows the hard drive pathway to that folder...if that makes sense.
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