Ever Growing Audio Tracks in FCP
by Tracy Peterson
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Jul 6, 2008 at 5:54:57 pm
I'm using a Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme as my capture card and I'm finding that when I use the HD-SID input, to capture my footage from a DVCPRO deck or an HDCAM deck, I'm getting a strange error with my audio on these captured clips.
When I open the clip in the viewer, to trim, I see as many as 12 audio tracks in the tabs above. I'm also noticing that every time I pull down a trimmed cut of a clip to the timeline from the viewer, there will be two more audio tracks added. So let's say I mark in and out for one cut, then pull it down, I will have four audio tracks, minimum. If i immediately pull the same thing down again, i will have six, and if I do it again, eight, and so on. It basically creates a painful editing environment where I have to manage many extra tracks for no good reason.
Re: Ever Growing Audio Tracks in FCP by Kristian Lam on Jul 8, 2008 at 12:07:47 am
Hi Tracy,
Just wondering. When capturing using the Log and Capture window in Final Cut Pro, did you go into the "Clip Settings" tab and specify the number of audio tracks to capture?
Re: Ever Growing Audio Tracks in FCP by Tracy Peterson on Jul 10, 2008 at 12:51:16 am
So there is no way to change how many audio tracks are in the capture? It starts to get unwieldy and i need to delete tracks as I go. each subsequent trimmed clip i add to the timeline adds to the total number of tracks and makes my timeline crazy big with audio.
Re: Ever Growing Audio Tracks in FCP by Kristian Lam on Jul 11, 2008 at 3:50:05 am
I don't think it's possible to actually alter what is already captured, but dragging the clips to the timeline should not exhibit the problem you'd described. Can you make sure you're dragging the clips into the video track? If you you drag and drop the clips onto the audio tracks, I think all the audio tracks get dropped in as well.
