Waveforms not showing up in Timeline

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Waveforms not showing up in Timeline

Need a little help.

I can't get the audio waveforms to show up in the timeline. All I get is little x's across the audio tracks.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chikers

iMac 5 2.16 Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Feb 17, 2008 2:03 PM

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Answer 1

MartinR

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Feb 17, 2008 2:13 PM in response to Chikers

Have you turned them on? User Preferences > Timeline Options > Show Audio Waveforms.

Also, if you have the track height set to the smallest size (aka reduced) it won't show the waveforms. Click the icon in the lower left of the sequence window - there are 4 track heights to choose between.

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Answer 2

Tom Wolsky

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Feb 17, 2008 2:13 PM in response to Chikers

Trash your waveform cache. Open the project and wait before you do anything in the timeline.

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Answer 3

BKRonline

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Feb 17, 2008 4:01 PM in response to Chikers

in addition:

what i'd call the creation of waveform peak files (so you can see the waveforms) seem to be only created when the timeline is zoomed out where you can see all of a particular clip or clips.

after you zoom out, then wait, you'll see the little x's turn in to visible waveforms over time.

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Chikers Author

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Feb 18, 2008 4:54 PM in response to Chikers

Thanks guys,

I fired up FCE to implement some of your suggestions, and the waveforms were already there. Have no idea what I did. Thanks for the help, I'm sure I will be back.

Thanks,

Eric

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Answer 5

BKRonline

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Feb 19, 2008 4:22 AM in response to Chikers

ahh magic 🙂

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