Final Cut Pro - Audio Question...

[GILFOIL]

Hey slutz. i'm doing some video editing with final cut pro version 5.0 (on macbook)
i'm kind of a n00b on this program as this is my first project with it, so i apologize ahead of time if this seems like a stupid question...

up until this point, i've only been using one stereo audio track (1 song...as it is a "music video") so i have all other audio tracks "muted" (with the green circles with speakers on them, on the left NOT highlighted..) i now want to mix audio from one clip overtop of the existing song.

so re-highlight (or "un-mute" both sides of the next stereo track (enablling 4 audio tracks, 2 stereo) and import the video clip (which is in .dv format - ripped from dv cam in imovie, then i "show package contents" and copy the file from the "media" folder of the imove project)

when i import the video, then add it into the sequence, the video plays, and the origianl audio from the song plays, but the audio for the imported clip doesnt play....i can't wrap my head around making it play.....
i've read through the manual and references and can't get my head around this...
...any ideas?!?!? this is getting frusterating!!

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[jahtao]

My mate says the following:

"It could be that you have to render the audio before it plays on the timeline (there might be a red bar at the top of the timeline, and the audio plays with a beeping sound). If its not that you may have to demux the .dv file for it to play correctly in fcp. Use mpeg streamclip."




Any joy?

Matt

[iluvatar]

I'm new to this myself, but what I've been doing is creating a multiclip out of my source clips - you use an In/Out point or timecode to sync up a bunch of clips into a multiclip (with each simultaneous clip being treated as a different camera angle), then just drag that one multiclip into your sequence. Within that multiclip, you can set points to switch between different angles. Audio and video can be switched separately, so you can be hearing audio from angle A while seeing video from angle B.

I haven't tried it yet (though I may today), but I think you can include regular audio files into a multiclip and not just video files which also have audio.

The Final Cut manual is pretty good if you take time to go through it. There are, I think, 4 separate volumes - but you only see the TOC for the first one when you start flipping through the manual from the beginning. The TOC for any volume sits at the beginning of that volume, rather than all of them being at the very beginning.

EDIT: I may have misunderstood your question. If you mute all of the other tracks and just take this clip by itself, can you hear the audio from this video clip?

-Dan.

[Sonsey@mac.com]

Originally Posted by jahtao

My mate says the following:

"It could be that you have to render the audio before it plays on the timeline (there might be a red bar at the top of the timeline, and the audio plays with a beeping sound). If its not that you may have to demux the .dv file for it to play correctly in fcp. Use mpeg streamclip."




Any joy?

Matt

Matt (or his friend) is correct. .dv files are "muxed" meaning the audio and the video are mixed into ONE data stream (as opposed to separate streams for both). In order for FCP to play back the audio it must be rendered. If you have "Unlimited RT" enabled (in the RT button, top left of your sequence window) it MAY try and play it without rendering, but won't... also if you have "Play base layer" only selected it will simply not play without beeping at you. Select the clip itself and choose Sequence->Render All and it should play back...