Error sending selection to Soundtrack Pro if I include video

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Error sending selection to Soundtrack Pro if I include video

FCP 7.02. If I select all the clips in a scene or just the audio clips and use the send to Soundtrack Pro multitrack project I get an erros thats says: Error sending selection to Soundtrack Pro once I click OK, an second error dialog pops up that says: General Error.

If I uncheck the include baseline video it works fine. It makes no difference if chose fully rendered or not.

MacBook Pro 17" / 30" Cinema display, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Saffire Firewire 10 channel audio device.

Posted on Sep 1, 2010 5:25 PM

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Answer 1

hyphen

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Sep 2, 2010 12:28 AM in response to jgourd

Soundtrack does not import projects with more than one video tracks in the timeline. Put all your video in one track and then send again.

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jgourd Author

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Sep 2, 2010 4:33 AM in response to hyphen

I'll give that a try. The weird thing is that it works for some range of clips and not others. I tried only sending a single audio clip to STP and it would fail.

Ultimately, since I had to have the Soundtrack Pro projects ready for tonight's VO session I sent everything to STP without video and did a separate video export for each group of clips. ThIs way I broke the full length movie into 16 smaller projects. It is time to upgrade to a Mac Pro.

When the editor did his edit he put some SFX in that were in WAV format, cell phones, car horns, that kind of stuff. STP kept asking me to locate those clips and once I found them it kept asking me for them. I eventually discovered that STP just can't open them yet Finder can preview them just fine. Have you ever heard of that?

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hyphen

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Sep 2, 2010 5:11 AM in response to jgourd

Not really, I can open and edit wavs within STP just fine. Any more info on the wavs and your project settings could be useful

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jgourd Author

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Sep 2, 2010 10:48 AM in response to hyphen

The thing of it is, in this case I just tried to open the wav with STP as a single audio file, no project at all. I know there is no hard rule that says all WAVs must contain uncompressed PCM bitstreams so maybe what is in these things is some odd bitstream that Finder understands and STP doesn't.

Who knows maybe these are malformed broadcast wave files. I have time later today to get into the structure of the files with a file inspector.

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hyphen

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Sep 2, 2010 12:40 PM in response to jgourd

Both the finder and STP rely on the same sources to read files core audio and quick time mainly. Can you open the file in quick time? If yes try exporting in some other format and then import in stp.

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jgourd Author

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Sep 2, 2010 2:25 PM in response to hyphen

It turns out the files were mal-formed. several audio editors failed to open the files. However, Sound Forge could open them. I open each one in Sound Forge, did a Save as... and voila, the Soundtrack Pro projects open up and everything is good.

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