I upgraded to the newest version of Finale cut, but now I'm having an issue with the soundwaves of the audio. They don't show up anymore on my clips. I'm not sure how to get them back or why it's doing this. Everything has been rendered and updated and it's still not showing the audio soundwaves. Hoping someone might be able to help me figure this out.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.6
What are the specs of the media? MPEG-4? What’s the audio? Does it help to optimize the media? Try deleting the cache and reopening the application. Don’t touch the application and see if the waveforms rebuild. I assume the formateos are working.
So looks like when I open a new project and library and then upload the clips the soundwaves show up. For some reason, the old Project and library doesn't want to show the soundwaves. Not sure why it's doing this. The videos and audio files are mp4. I don't think I have ever tied optimizing the media, because I don't think it ever really did much for me in the past. I tried deleting the cache and that didn't work. It's also one of those things that when I go to close the application it says it's doing things in the background, but not sure what that is. Then I have to force quit the program. I'm afraid to try this with other projects I have because I don't want it to be an issue.
Sadly that didn't help this project or library. It's still not showing the soundwaves and it's still making me force quit. I was hoping to fix this issue because I really didn't want to redo this whole project.
Where can I put this? I tried to open a whole new library and project to kind of start from scratch to see if I can make this work. The program isn't really letting me do anything when it comes to sound. trying to match audio and the clips keep cutting out and I am still having issues seeing the soundwaves. This all happened right after I updated my Final Cut. I used it a day before I upgraded and now it's giving me all kinds of issues.
The waveforms aren't showing up in the timeline or the browser. Sadly while those are very helpful, they did not help the problem.
Please can you pass in the information about the media specs. The problem has been reported, and we’re trying to see who is impacted by this.
Where are you not seeing the waveforms? In the browser? In the timeline?
You can change the clip appearance in the browser by clicking this button - notice the checkbox for waveforms:
In the timeline, there is a similar button, with a different set of options - choose how the clips display in the timeline, with more or less space dedicated to audio:
Also, if the issue persists after doing as Tom advised, you may want to delete the application preferences.
To delete preferences, hold down command and option while starting FCP X and click Delete Preferences. The application will start in a default state, and open an “Untitled” library.
Reopen the library you were working on, set the preferences the way you like them, and try again.
Whenever there is a crash, you must delete the application's preferences. They become corrupted, and then this causes erratic behavior and further crashes. Very often the simple act of deleting preferences, as I described above, is all it takes to restore good behavior.
In the present case, there is a chance that the library became corrupted.
Final Cut Sound Issue
