What the %$#@ is going on? Clips losing their effects?
by Luke Hill
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Jul 3, 2009 at 1:24:54 am
Hi everyone,
I'm at my wit's end, so I really hope someone can help me.
Basically what's going on is when I exported a multitrack project to an aiff file, I noticed that SOME of one of the actor's dialgoues (everyone has their own track) sounded thin... I checked it out in soundtrack and found that some of the effects I'd used (Fat EQ in particular) didn't seem to be in effect (though the effects showed as being used in the effects tab).
I right-clicked on each clip, chose "replace with independent audio file project" and instantly the clips sounded just like they were supposed to. I exported again - same thing! Then, when I went back into the timeline, the clips sounded wrong again!
Basically this happens over and over - I've tried exporting using compressor and many other export options, it makes no difference. I'll "replace with independent audio" and the clip will temporarily sound fine on the timeline, but then at some point only minutes later, the clip is back to sounding like it did before! I can repeat the process and once it again it will sound right temporarily, but even if I export the second I finish doing this (to each clip), the export still sounds as if the effects aren't registering.
Am I misunderstanding something? Do I need to somehow render these effects before I export? Is this a bug in Soundtrack Pro?
Please, if anyone can offer any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm already behind schedule on this project and I just can't seem to figure out what's going on here.
Re: What the %$#@ is going on? Clips losing their effects? by Niels Madsen on Nov 16, 2009 at 6:02:30 am
I also experienced this problem.
I noticed that if there were recordings on two tracks, and I disgarded one atmosphere recording and concentrated on the dialog track, then in export it was the atmosphere recording that came with, even if I had it deleted.
I spent a week trying to resolve this problem and was also at my wits end.
Then I bought an upgrade to Soundtrack 3.0.1 and tried an export and it worked perfectly.
So this is a problem with the software, not you or your technique.
