Strange and this didn't happen before but however I add the music track to the timeline (which is imported from Itunes) its just makes bleeping noises when I play it. When I move the cursor over it I can hear the music and when I double click and play it in the review window I can hear the music but not on the timeline/in the right hand viewer. Have tried rendering... any ideas? I'm getting v frustrated.
MacBook Pro
Hi
Audio must be in same format as in FC-project e.g. .aiff 48kHz
In iTune I always collect needed audio into a New Playlist then burn this as an Audio-CD (.aiff - NOT .mp3) and then I use the files on this CD in my movie projects (I first copy them into the Project folder - so that I don't need to keep CD in all time)
You can under Selections Render Audio - and this will temporarily help - till next change in timeline.
But with audio in proper format - You don't need to render so many times.
Yours Bengt W
even easier, use compressor. There's an apple preset for 48k16bit audio. You can batch process or even easier, create a droplet and drag the files on top of the droplet.
How I wished You could provide a step by step instr. on howto create such a droplet.
Love FCP (6) and learned it via Tom Wolsky's material - but this I obviously missed.
Yours with a great hope and interest - Bengt W
it's a breeze. Launch compressor which hopefully you installed when you installed fcp. Go to the settings window. In the apple presets, in the formats folder, in the audio folder you'll find a preset aiff.48:16. Control click on it and save as droplet. This creates a mini "program" that you can just drag your audio files on top of to convert.
Post back if any of this doesn't make sense. Here are some tips for using compressor
Most Greatful
Thank You Thank You
Yours very - Bengt W
Also you can set up itunes to create the aiff files.
Quicktime 7 can export them too. But yeah...compressor is your best bet...especially if you have a bunch to do.
thanks for your help... but I'm sorry... really thick. I've launched the compressor..... and got through to the last stage... but when I click on Aiff 48.16 and it launches another box... it won't let me hit save.... so what do I do?
You can always check the manual or go to the help menu while in compressor and select compressor help.
Drag the file or files to a batch window. Find the preset you want in the settings window and drag it on top of the file in the batch window.
Hi Rachel,
Go to itunes preferences/ import settings.
Change "import using" to AIFF Encoder.
Change "setting" to "custom" and change "sample rate" to 48.000kHZ
"Sample size" to 16 bit and Channels "auto" click OK
Then find your music track and select it.
On the top menu bar select "advanced" and select "Create AIFF Version"
In a matter of seconds you will see an AIFF version of your song below the original.
Import that file from your itunes library into FCP.
Don't forget to change your i tunes prefs back to default to go back to importing MP3
DM
Why would anyone want to import mp3? It's a terrible format! Of course, I've got no use whatsoever for ipods, so maybe that explains it...
It's the world we live in Jim, i pods, i phones, i everything ! i don't know what's happening most of the time.
How was the beach at the weekend?
DM
Music track just bleeps when added to timeline
