iMovie project to FCP audio solutions - please help??
by Anthony Miles
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Sep 3, 2008 at 4:01:23 am
Dear Cowlords,
I have a project to finish that was created by another person who in iMovie 08. I have the iMovie project files and the captured media. I am finishing the project in Final Cut Studio 2 and FCP 6.04 on Intel Mac Pro.
I have imported the project via XML import from iMovie, got that to work, No graphics came in and audio needs rendering to play, bummer.
OK, I am thinking to use Compressor to batch make new FCP compliant audio and relink in FCP. Is this possible without manually relinking each clip?? If not I can just make new clips as ProRes to relink and finish. Down side ihs ard drive requirements for approx. 5 hours of video.
So, Question.
? Is there a way to offline just the audio from the .dv stream in FCP and relink to replace with new PCM audio output from compressor?
I have read and understand that I will not have time code,and some other issues with iMovie captures.
On an interesting side note, this project was 1080i HDV captured to iMovie 960x540 capture. The interesting part is .dv stream has data rate of 57 megabits a second and visually looks very good.
Your help, solutions and thought are appreciated.
Warm regards,
Anthony Miles
DP, Editor 4th Wall Productions, LLC
http://4thwalltvandfilm.com
Re: iMovie project to FCP audio solutions - please help?? by Michael Gossen on Sep 3, 2008 at 6:02:32 am
First off, how is the audio encoded now? Are your 'User Preferences' set to play several tracks of 'Real-time audio Mixing' at low quality. If for some reason that were set too low, and you had several tracks, you would have to render. Coming from iMovie, this might be unlikely, but still worth a check.
Assuming all that is good, maybe 'Media Manager' would seem be a good solution here. Duplicate your sequence in FCP, then delete all the video, but leave all the audio. Go to File > Media Manager. Here, if you 'Recompress' your media and duplicate your sequence into a new project you will have another new copy of the audio files in the directory of your choice. It shouldn't really matter what codec you use, just pick something with PCM audio.
Audio shouldn't be too intensive on disk space, but if you need to save space, you can adjust the settings to 'Delete unused media...' But you should leave as long of handles as you can, I would suggest at least 5;00 to 10;00 seconds. Doing it this way, in the new sequence you should have all the audio, in place on the timeline, with original timecode. Then, copy everything and replace it in another duplicate of the original sequence. And if you leave handles, you (or another mixer) have room to adjust if needed. Hope that helps...
Re: iMovie project to FCP audio solutions - please help?? by Anthony Miles on Sep 3, 2008 at 7:06:50 am
Michael,
I made new duplicate sequences, deleted all video left audio in place and, strange, but I am getting copies in the same .dv format, with video and audio. I checked "recompress" in media manager.
Any more clues?
Best regards,
Anthony Miles
DP, Editor 4th Wall Productions, LLC
http://4thwalltvandfilm.com
My solution - iMovie project to FCP audio solutions by Anthony Miles on Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30:36 pm
So after testing and reworking, I found that creating a compresssor droplet to convert footage to ProRes, then relinking media in a duplicate project seemed to make the most sense for me. Thanks for your help and suggestions.
Best regards,
Anthony Miles
DP, Editor 4th Wall Productions, LLC
http://4thwalltvandfilm.com
