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Q: muffled sound after exporting project from FCPX to QuickTime

Hello,

 

I have searched for an fix everywhere but can't find any solution. I really hope someone here can help me.

 

I have produced a song myself and now want to add some video clips to it and later upload the final product to YouTube. The music file I have imported to FCPX is 48 kHz, 16bit Wav. Everthing sounds good in the FCPX timeline. Also, the music file sounds good in iTunes.

 

The issue happens when the final product is exported from FCPX. After the export the sound becomes muffled. Also other things happens to the song. For example: In the intro I have an snare rolling. In the end of every bar I have a harder drum hitting. When that drum hitting, the volume of the snare is going down. That is not happening in iTunes. This destroys the sound and is a bit frustrating.

 

I have tried to export with all different settings I can find. The same issue occur in iMovie.

 

The sound level is not above 0db and are never in the red peaking area in FCPX.

 

I have also tried to put the level as -12 db and export the project. The overall volume is after that too low and the issue still persist.

 

Hope anyone out there have an solution.

 

(Sorry for bad English)

 

kind regards

Jonas

Mac Pro (Mid 2010), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Aug 5, 2016 10:31 AM

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Aug 5, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Swejool
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    Aug 5, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Swejool

    Could you post a piece of the original file somewhere?

  • by Swejool,

    Swejool Swejool Aug 5, 2016 12:11 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Aug 5, 2016 12:11 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Hi Tom,

     

    Thank you for your reply.

     

    I have made an clip with just the intro before FCPX (WAV, 16Bit, 48 kHz) and one clip with the exported media from FCPX. All this is in one zipped file.

     

    http://www.filedropper.com/fcpx

     

    It is like the snare is ducking for some reason.

     

    Thank you.

     

    Kind regards

     

    Jonas

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Aug 5, 2016 1:29 PM in response to Swejool
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    Aug 5, 2016 1:29 PM in response to Swejool

    Someone else will have to listen to it. I don't hear the sound being destroyed. There is a slight compression in the audio that I would put down to the AAC encoding, but running the two files in an audition I don't hear it.

  • by Swejool,Solvedanswer

    Swejool Swejool Aug 5, 2016 1:30 PM in response to Swejool
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    Aug 5, 2016 1:30 PM in response to Swejool

    Hi again,

     

    Okay, so it seems that I have found a solution here. If I export directly to YouTube from FCPX (there is an option for that) there are no changes to the audio. The issue just occur when I export the video and have it saved on the computer. This is strange.

     

    My goal was to upload the media to YouTube and now this can be done, so I am happy. Thank you.

     

    Kind regards Jonas