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Syncing audio in Final Cut Pro X doesn't create a compound clip

I just had a quick question that hopefully someone can help me with. I was shooting some video with my Canon t3i the other day, and I record audio into a Zoom H1. I imported all of my audio and video into Final Cut Pro X and I wanted to syncronize the clips, so I chose the video and the correct audio to go with it, and I right clicked them, and chose syncronize clips.


Now, my question. On every example I've seen of this, syncronizing two clips creates a compound clip which would be great, but when I choose syncronize clip, it just creates a new clip of the video with both audio files apart of the video. It's not a compound clip at all, it's just a video file with two audio channels, one with the cameras audio, the other with the Zoom H1 audio. When I go to shut off the cameras audio channel and just leave the Zoom H1 audio, my video starts to skip and just goes black, yet the audio plays fine...


I guess I'm just looking for help, is there something wrong that I am doing when I am trying to sync these clips? Are there certain file settings that I should have? My video is recorded in 1080p with 24fps, the audio is recorded in WAV format. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 25, 2013 10:10 AM

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Jul 25, 2013 10:33 AM in response to Russ H

If I had my Mac with me I'd try that, but I know that compound clips have the compound clip icon in the top left of the clip, and it's not there. If I put the clips in list view, the icon next to the clip is a video icon, not a compound clip icon. Also, double-clicking a compound clip in the timeline should expand the compound clip, but when I double click on the synced file, it does nothing. I just want to know why it won't create compound clips.

Jul 25, 2013 10:58 AM in response to Russ H

Right, I've used compound clips before, and I've never had a problem with syncing audio clips to video clips before, but it will no longer create a compound clip like what you have shown in the picture above. I use to be able to do that, but it doesn't anymore and I'm not sure why. When I get home later today I will have to play around with Final Cut some more to see if I can find anything out.

Syncing audio in Final Cut Pro X doesn't create a compound clip

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