This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] AUDIO help

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] AUDIO help

I know this is a head slapper, but it's caught me before. Double check you haven't turned off the track monitors on those tracks.

Kedor

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On Mar 25, 2015, at 11:28, Wilson Chao wilsonchao@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I would try a quick & dirty workaround:

* Play the MP4 on the desktop using VLC, which plays everything.

* Re-record the audio on the desktop - I use the shareware app Total Recorder, which intercepts the digital stream going to your soundcard, and re-encodes it in your choice of codecs.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:19 PM, phartel@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm stumped. Cutting a sizzle and the producers sent me an mp4 of some pick ups with the host, additional stand ups.

When I import it into MC (5.5.3) - I can't hear the audio. Video is fine. If I cut a snippet into the timeline, I can SEE the audio waveform, it's there, it's large, but I can't hear anything.

I've checked the rest of the sequence - I can play a clip immediately prior, and hear that, so it's not my headphones and it's not the sequence. I don't have any tracks muted or disabled.

I checked the mp4, and the audio was recorded or compressed to AAC. I've tried exporting only the audio and converting it to AIFF and WAV formats (both of which I can monitor and hear perfectly at the desktop level) but I can't hear those either when I import them.

I tried transcoding the import on the off-chance it's got something to do with frame-rate that wasn't properly handled during import. (The pick-ups are 29.97, the project is 23.98.) But that does nothing either. The video is fine always, the audio fails to register. The weird thing is MC obviously recognizes it - sees it's there, but isn't playing it. Dunno.

Any help? Many thanks in advance.

Stumped.

Paul