Audio Clicks and Pops appearing in clips

Wav or aiff is the only solution you will fix the poping sound in fcx... i had the same problem and it did work by importing the sound into large files. good luck.

Glad that i found this thread.

I'm facing the problem, i only discovered it after i completed the video.

Any solution so far? i need to pulish it at next weekend. omg..... please go away **clicks**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYXsFQ5Ax8

Make sure you're working with uncomrpessed 48k audio and not any form of compressed audio.

Just bought a brand new 27' iMac and one of my first purchases was Final Cut Pro X. I am very dissapointed in the audio pop's and cracks. I have spend a good deal of time learning the applications and working on my first project. THis software is useless to me if the resulting video will have pops and cracks in the audio effects. I am only using the built-in audio effects that Apple provides. Considering requesting a refund.

The built-in audio effects, I believe are also mp3, in which case you will have the pop's and cracks, and in my case actually, I also had an odd echo effect too. You will have to do the same with those as all the other audio tracks:

1) Export the audio

2) In a program of your choice (I use audacity) convert the audio into an uncompressed format (like .wav for example or .aiff)

3) Reimport into FCPX

Sorry it couldn't be better than that.

Stop trying to find ways around this issue... Call and complain like many others and I have done.. They know there is a problem and that is rediculous that people are exporting the sound effects built in to make the pops go away come on.. Another key issue is it works fine in preview mode ( mp3, sound effects) but as soon as on timeline they pop. SO PLEASE CALL AND COMPLAIN SO IT GETS FIXED FASTER

Well, it would be nice to not have to know a workaround and simply wait on Apple to fix the issue, but in the mean time, I have weddings to edit, no time to wait on Apple and no time (or money) to learn anything else new at this point (though it is tempting).

I should point that has always been standard practice for professional video applications to require uncompressed audio be used in their interfaces. The processor bandwidth is too great to waste on having to handle compressed audio when you can have to process multiple streams of audio and of high data rate video in realtime.

Although that is true, it should just convert all compressed audio to .aiff or .wav, like

Ableton Live does. As soon as you drop any compressed audio in Live, it immediately goes to work making an uncompressed version of it. In fact, this is the ONLY way it handles audio, which FCPX should do. So either it does this and then introduces the clicks and pops (which in that case would mean that the clicks and pops would occur ALWAYS at the same time since it's an uncompressed copy of the original and not being handled in realtime), or it handles the audio in real time, which I doubt (and then the audio clicks would come at random). Regardless of the two, whether it converts to uncompressed or handles the compressed files on the fly, FCPX in Lion just has serious issues handling compressed audio. And to everybody's credit for complaining to Apple, I already have (several times) and weeks have past and nothing. Apple might just be waiting to put this in a major update to the software, as opposed to a small bug fix, but it is honestly a big headache (although the rest of the program I'm quite fond of).

I've been running clips through after effects anyway since I have magic bullet plugins that aren't out yet for FCPX, and I export the clips in AE as Apple Pro Res 422, a format FCPX has NO problems dealing with. I've even run stuff through iMovie and it does the job. If dealing with an audio program is too big of a hassle just dump it in iMovie and export it as Apple Pro Res.

Sorry for the rant, my two cents. :)

I don't understand this at all. Why are you converting video files in AE or iMovie? That's ridiculous. I don't know what you're importing, but video imported into FCP from a camera are rewrapped into QuickTime and clips with compressed audio are converted to uncompressed audio. If the media is optimized it's transcoded to ProRes with uncompressed audio.

Well Tom if you would have read my post you would have clearly gleamed that I'm using AE to process files with Magic Bullet plugins that don't currently run in FCPX. As for iMovie, it was a suggestion to those who might not want to deal with the audio in an audio editing program and aren't comfortable with that (i.e., they're amateur film makers and only use video software and have never dabbled with audio software; I'm a DJ and producer as well as an amateur film maker so I'm comfortable with both).

For some reason iMovie shows none of these issues with the compressed audio. So for a dummy proof way of getting compressed audio files from video into FCPX (like iPhone 4 video files) you can pass them in iMovie or any other non linear editing program like Premiere or AE for that matter (and exporting as Pro Res so FCPX has no issues with the audio). If you have the knowledge though, of course it would be easier to bounce the compressed audio in the DAW of your choice and put it back in FCPX, leaving the video untouched.

This is not what you guys think it is.. Uncompressed , compressed.... The audio does not pop on preview of sound effects and any music applied but when on timeline it pops.. The built in sound effects that came with the program should absolutly not pop if it is what you describe that would be the most idiotic thing ever if you had to take their sound effect and plug into some program to make it uncompressed and work...

Call apple i had an engeneer actually call me and had me send him mp3 exaples and he could make the sound effect issue happen straight from his computer as well

I appreciate everyone trying to find ways around this issue but it is a big issue and it is apples fault not ours the more people that call ******** will make things hapen faster

I dont know why it ***** i just put apple??? weird

and i agree why is imovie ok with audio of any type I could plug the exact same video in and edit the same music in with no pops

Of course it has EVERYTHING to do with the problem! From what I see in the posts, it seems that the actual effects are also compressed MP3s. If they were uncompressed AIFF or WAV files then we wouldn't be having the issue!

I understand your anger, just as I am angry, but we all at least have to understand the inherent problem which is that FCPX in Lion cannot handle compressed audio, but has no problems with uncompressed audio. What we've suggested are workarounds that can get you by in the mean time, since apparently Apple is taking their sweet time with this. I personally have projects with deadlines due so I have no choice but to work around the issue at the moment. But of course I can't wait until all of this is fixed and cab just use FCPX like it was meant to be used.