Just Looking for a Good Workflow...

Hello All,

I have 4 interviews of 4 individual subjects. I've cut and diced them all up in my FCP timeline to = 3.4 mins with a nice audio bed behind them.

I know I want to use the Noise Reduction tool in Soundtrack to take out some of the hiss, but I believe I'm going about it wrong. First of all, as i said, I'm only working with 4 original sound clips here. Shouldn't I just have to use the Noise Reduction tool 4 times total?

Well with that being said, I tried selecting all the audio associated with those clips in the timeline, right clicking and sending them to Soundtrack as a multi-track project. I was shown an error, and that was that. After I tried multiple times to achieve the multi-track, I had to settle with the first option, "Send to Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project."

This method was working great, however TIME CONSUMING.

Then to top it all off, I have one audio clip in particular that has gone missing. In Soundtrack Pro I performed Noise Reduction, and then a channel equalizer. When I saved I was shown a short message about "before I save I should Action Render first." Well, I don't know why I didn't action render before saving... but now my audio file back in FCP is "whited out" and there's no render file associated with it because it has gone missing.

I have 2 questions:

1) what's the best/fastest way to perform a Noise Reduction and possibly a channel equalizer to all 4 of my audio tracks?

2) Is there a way to recover that audio render file that I lost because I saved it without rendering first? (It still works perfectly in Soundtrack)

I want to say thank you so so much to anyone who reads this cry for help.

JS

P.S. I'm shooting with a JVC 100 and a Sony HD camcorder. I'm running the newest version of FC and Soundtrack on a fairly powerful new iMac.

Thanks in advance!