Audio captured 29.97 pasted into 23.98 sequence - problems!

Arf!

Been working on a project where 24p Advanced (3:2:2:3) footage was mistakenly captured as 29.97. After some effort all the video was reversed to 23.98.

So now I go to paste in the audio from the original 29.97 sequence, and most of the levels get turned all the way down, or otherwise messed up. The offline editor did all the audio "mixing" via pen (keyframes.) So most of that is gone.

Turns out it's that all the audio from the camera that's affected. Non-TC clips came with through levels intact. So I'm pretty certain that it's a problem where FCP uses TC, even with audio, to record keyframes. And they just flip out if that TC changes.

Any advice?

- Justin Barham -

If you INFO one of the messy tracks, what does the panel say?

Koz

Kozikowski Wrote:
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> If you INFO one of the messy tracks, what does the
> panel say?

You mean Item Properties?

It says TC = Source under the Timing tab. TC Rate = 30 under Film.

The clips from non-TC media of course have no information for either, and come through with levels fine. FCP must database their keyframes in an easily scalable fashion, unrelated to TC.

First time I've actually wanted a clip to lose it's TC!

- Justin Barham -

Actually, I was looking for sample rate and stuff like that. The heavy numbers.

Koz

They're all 16 48.

- Justin Barham -

Well. Since I haven't found a solution, the mixer will just have to work with an OMF with reset levels. They generally blow them away in ProTools anyway. And they'll have a QT, with the proper two channel bounce to reference.

- Justin Barham -