Final Cut Pro – Exporting Multiple Audio Tracks

TIp Jar

Final Cut supports exporting up to 24 tracks of audio into a single QuickTime movie.

It isn’t hard, and here’s an article that tells you want you need to know.

Final Cut Pro – Only Capture the Audio Track You Need

Audio Settings

In both the Log & Capture window and the Log & Transfer window, you can specify which audio tracks you want to bring into Final Cut.

In both cases, reducing the number of audio tracks you capture reduces the storage space needed for the file.

In Log & Capture

Click the Clip Settings tab. Click a green visibility light to ignore all audio on that track. Light green visibility lights mean an active track. Dark green visibility lights mean an inactive track.

In Log & Transfer

Click the Clip Settings tab. Click a green visibility light to ignore all audio on that track.

In both screens, light green visibility lights mean an active track. Dark green visibility lights mean an inactive track. Inactive tracks will not capture audio.

Final Cut Pro – Fixing Fluorescent Flicker

Here’s one way to fix fluorescent flicker showing up in your videos.

Try using motion blur, 4 samples at 200%. In those images where the talent moves a lot, duplicate the track, with motion blur on the lower track, no effect on the top track and a garbage matte to isolate the portion of the frame with a lot of movement. Since the flicker is isolated to the small section where there is a lot of motion, it isn’t as noticeable as when the entire frame beats.

It’s better than nothing and better than smeary video.

Final Cut Pro – Preserving Your FCP Preference Files

The one Achilles heel of Final Cut Pro are its preference files. While these have been getting more and more stable with each version, they still tend to get corrupted on a regular basis.

And, the only way to fix them is to delete them and start over.

FCP Rescue 6 (or FCP Rescue 5 for FCP 5.x users) is free software that can help you manage your preference files.

You can download a copy here.

Here’s how to use this:

1. Use FCP Rescue 6 to trash your preferences.
2. Open Final Cut and reset your preference settings to the way you want them.
3. Quit Final Cut – this saves your preference settings.
4. Use FCP Rescue to backup your preferences.

Note: Don’t backup preferences until you have created clean files. Otherwise, you’ll never know if you are backing up good, or bad, preference files.