I am importing some old video AVI files and I am not getting any audio for it in Final Cut Pro X. The supported media shows AVI under containers. Why am I not able to hear the audio. If I import the same clip into iMovie I can hear the audio.
Probably in some muxed format. See if you can comvert it with Compressor or MPEG Streacmlip.
Thanks for the reply. I tried using MPEGStreamclip, but I get an error message saying that it cannot open the file because the file is not supported. So I tried Compressor and I am able to convert the clip, but I still get no audio in Final Cut Pro X. I have tried nearly all the settings, but still no sound. I am new to MAC and this application. Is there a recommended setting to use? Unfortunately I have multiple hundreds of clips that I have to convert. I have had some success using Quick Time Pro 7, but that is one at a time. I like the ability to be able to batch them in Compressor if I could get it to work.
I find it strange that QT 7 can open a file and MPEG Streamclip can't.
Since you can open with QT 7, please press Cmd-I to see the movie inspector and post a screenshot here.
there are two sorts of DV.avi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave#DV_AVI
for conversion of type1, casho3 mentioned his solution ... :
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2754653?start=0&tstart=0
(not tried myself, never had those encoded files)
The utility discussed in the link worked like a champ. You can select all of the files and batch convert them to type 2. Now I have the audio in FCPx without any other steps.
not getting audio when importing avi files
