No Sound output on FCP 10.3

Well, thanks for this info, but in my case it did not solve the problem... no sound at all in any of the exports. Good job Apple... Should I tell my clients to go to the genius bar for complains?

Did you try just: creating a new library, new project, add a clip or two, share master file - "Video and Audio"? Still no audio? What about Sharing Master File, then choosing Computer? Still no audio?

Also, in previous versions sometimes when changing the export options regarding audio only, or video and audio, etc, these changes sometimes did not stick. Not sure about 10.3, but usually exporting to a different format helped back then.

Hi Luis, thanks for your reply.

I have tried all the aforementioned, plus exporting mp4s with compressor and still no luck. I'm starting to be a bit desperate already... thinking on installing previous version to finish and meet my client's deadlines and switching permanently to premiere for good.

Hi gverras, thank's everyone for the support and ideas!

I've been able to solve the problem repairing permissions of the startup disk in target mode. It must have been an issue originated y the sierra update and/or final cut's update.

sun's shinning again at last!

Have a great day everyone and thanks again

Best

C

This has been SO frustrating! What I've found as a work around is this:

1. Exit out of final cut

2. Hold down option and command together and click on the icon to reopen final cut.

3. Follow the prompt to delete the preferences.

4. Export as usual.

I've tried several times already and this has been the only solution I could find. It's super inefficient, but at least I can meet deadlines.

Do you mean you have to delete preferences *every time*? Deleting preferences is a standard troubleshooting step, but doing it repeatedly is most unusual.

I've tried the couple of workarounds and still no sound after export to ProRes for me. I have a Motion clip (no sound) that's 1998 x 1080 that I open and then connect my 16:9 clip (with sound) to in order to export at the needed aspect ratio. This used to work fine. The motion clip doesn't have selectable/assignable audio roles.

Hi geverras - What a relief to be back up and running again. Hopefully your fix can help some others with the same/similar problem.

I was actually thinking of writing a post about troubleshooting more upstream to find out if there was perhaps a corrupt camera file or something with the cam to computer connection system.

One thing I'm doing is keeping a couple older computers running with FCPX and only updating one initially. Once the one is up and running smoothly then either finishing files on the older one with the earlier version or moving them over to the newer computer with the newer version. All this while maintaining backups.

Thanks for coming back to us with your fix and we hope to hear from the others to see if it helped them.

gverras wrote:

I stopped working again after a few days. I've tried all of the suggested solutions, even the one that I previously posted. Now nothing works. 😠 I've abandoned FCP... Using Adobe Premiere now. Adobe works and I don't have the time to spend helping Apple solve it's issues. You had a really good product Apple until you ruined it.

I'm glad to you found a workaround - even though it requires Premiere.

As to ruin things, well, millions of people keep using FCP X, and have upgraded without issue.

Whatever is happening to your installation is not a widespread bug. It seems to affect a few users, but a very small minority. Most likely something in their particular setups, no two of which are the same.

Hold Opt-Cmd when you launch the application to reset the prefs. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the application from the App Store.