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Soundtrack woes

 
 


GmElliott
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Apr 24, 2008, 10:21 AM

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Soundtrack frustrates me- any time I go to import a section of audio out of my FCP timeilne into Sountrack it reverts it to the state it was when it was captured.
In other words:
- Say I shot a ceremony with the onboard shotgun on channel 1, and the wireless on channel 2
- Then in post I remove channel one during the vows and center the audio pan for channel 2 so it's coming out of both channels mono.
- If/when I want to clean up the audio a bit and send it over to Soundtrack Pro it imports it as the source file (ie Left Channel Shotgun, Right Channel Wireless) rather than reflecting the changes I made on the FCP timeline.

The only way I know around it is to output that section of audio as an AIFF file then import that. To me that is clunky and seemingly uneccesary. Is there something I'm missing?




Glen Elliott
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Scott S
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Apr 24, 2008, 1:49 PM

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One of the big reasons I haven't migrated to soundtrack from Peak... I still have to export camera audio as you described but in the end, Peaks batch processor and my familiarity with it (8 years?) it's just faster for me. I really wish ST would let you open the audio file as it exists in a sequence...


GmElliott
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Apr 25, 2008, 8:15 AM

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Hey Scott, who makes Peak? Does it integrate with FCP at all or do you still have to export to AIFF the same way as when working with Sountrack?




Glen Elliott
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Scott S
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Apr 25, 2008, 2:10 PM

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A company named bias. Yes you have to export still (see previous post). Apple used to include peak le with final cut prior to soundrack....

Scott


MLiebergot
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Apr 25, 2008, 2:20 PM

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This is where Vegas really shines.
Right form the timeline, I could simply export a full audio clip or just a portion of the audio clip to SoundForge and then after it's saved it appears in my Vegas timeline as a take. Which I can switch takes in the timeline whenever I like. Totally nondestructive and seamless.

Michael

Cameras: (3) Sony FX1, Canon HV20
Audio: Marantz PMD620, Edirol R44, ZoomH4N, ZoomH2, Sennhesier G2
Mics: Rode NT5, Rode NT3, Rode M3, Rode NTG2, Shure SM57, AT822
Software: Sony Vegas, Final Cut Studio
Computer: MAC BABY! MacPro, MacBook Pro


MLiebergot
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Apr 25, 2008, 2:39 PM

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Glen did you try sending it (not exporting it) to Soundtrack from the FCP timeline, then check "send only as referenced media". This might give you different results, as it only send teh audio clip and what ever handles you want to have on both ends of it and see if this makes a difference.

Michael

Cameras: (3) Sony FX1, Canon HV20
Audio: Marantz PMD620, Edirol R44, ZoomH4N, ZoomH2, Sennhesier G2
Mics: Rode NT5, Rode NT3, Rode M3, Rode NTG2, Shure SM57, AT822
Software: Sony Vegas, Final Cut Studio
Computer: MAC BABY! MacPro, MacBook Pro