[MacDV] Beeping !

[James Asherman]

On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Neil Bennett wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a newcomer to FCE and I cant work out why, when I play my clips in 
> the viewer there is an almost metronome like beeping while the clip 
> plays, but when I play the same clip in the timeline the beeping isn't 
> there i.e I didn't record the beeping.
> Neil
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The beeping indicates that your audio clip is not 48k exactly. Render 
and mixdown audio and it will go away.
Convert your audio to 48k before using with QT Pro.

Now , my problem.
  FCP 1.2 gig quicksilver 1.2 gig ram. FCP 4.1. Plenty disk space.
Toward the end of a long video I added a short clip. While this clip 
was still the last one I selected   modify/speed. I slowed it down to 
30%.  The clip expanded on the timeline.
  But the canvas went orange with a ptinted suggestion to close the 
canvas window and reopen to get the video display back.  Bad idea. Once 
the canvas closed so did the timeline. Their indicators in the window 
menu became greyed out. When  I double click the sequence to reload it 
I get a "general error' message and depending on the settings a low 
memory warning. FCP mem or sys mem, who knows, seems to be sys mem.
when I open a fresh sequence and drop in the old sequence it drops in  
as a nested sequence but the canvas is still orange. If I grab the end 
of the timeline and drag it I can see my video there. Even dragging it 
back before the speed changed clip it still craps out.
Looks like I need to start a fresh sequence and redo the wholeproject. 
I think the lesson is to do speed changes after adding another clip 
though I cannot figure out why.
Jim