moar vidding woe - phantom sounds in final cut divx exports

[such_heights]

So I have had this problem with Final Cut for a few months where if I use the Export as Quicktime conversion --> export as divx option, it repeats a random snippet of the music right at the end of the vid, i.e., the song will fade out and there'll be a one note blast right at the end.

I have previously had two workarounds with this - either just open up the file in Streamclip once I'm done and rexport as an avi with the last second or so cut off, or export from Final Cut as a huge quicktime movie -- where there's no audio problem -- and rexport as an avi from Streamclip.

However! For my current project this isn't working, because however I export from Streamclip, some sections of it come up all pixellated and unpleasant. So now I am trying to figure out why Final Cut does this in the first place, but am drawing blanks. Anyone got any suggestions?

Comments

[laurashapiro]

I wish I knew! I haven't encountered that one before. Try posting to the vidding comm, maybe?

[such_heights]

It is over there also! This must have happened to someone else at some point, surely.

[thingswithwings]

what format is the song in to begin with? because I used to get a different problem - little skips and fuzzy sounds in the song - when I imported the song as an mp3 into final cut. Since then, I started reformatting the mp3 to an aiff - a format final cut likes better - and it solved the problems. your issue is obviously different than mine, but the solution might work for you anyway?

lmk if you don't have a program to change an mp3 to an aiff - I do it in sound studio, and I don't know if audacity has that option. but I'm happy to convert it for you if you need.

[such_heights]

It is an aiff, unfortunately! I also used to have that audio problem, but now this is a whole new thing. I keep thinking I am ahead of my software, then it finds a way to outfox me again!

[fan_eunice]

What I used to do is export as a self-contained final cut movie and then open that straight in Quicktime instead of streamclip, and do a divx conversion from there.

[busaikko]

I don't use any of those programs, but what happens if you open the song file in Audacity and add 10-30 seconds of blank sound? If you are just getting a blip from the end, and you make the end blank, you should get a blip of nothing, which could then be edited out?

[rhivolution]

That...is utterly bizarre. But I've also had issues with FC and DivX overall, so I'm not entirely surprised. Did the DivX codecs update a few months ago or something?

I'd suggest taking it up on the Apple support boards, because it is just that weird.