Corruption of Subclips Audio Generated by Media Mgt Copy
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:31 pmI sat down today determined to optimize my media management and storage. I set about going through my original recorded clips, marking in/out points along each clip to find the good parts, and creating subclips from those parts of the original clip. I then placed those subclips on a timeline, and used Media Management to Copy those clips to a new location. This created several new clips in storage consisting of the good parts of the original, full-length clip, just as I suspected. I deleted the original, full-length clip. At this point, I was content that I had accomplished my goal: to save storage space and have a media library that contained only the good stuff. Perfect solution, or so I thought.
So I set out to test some of the new subclips (which I figured were now Clips in their own right) and put them on a timeline. All seemed fine, until I noticed I didn't have audio. I knew the solution. The original clip was recorded in Stereo, but really had only one channel, and it was channel two. So all I had to do was make embedded channel 2 the first and only channel, and change the track to Mono. This works every time. But this time was different. The audio I was hearing bared NO RESEMBLANCE to the original audio. Instead, I was hearing a robotic series of tones, similar to what you might hear if you synthesize a square wave. I wasn't just hearing it, I was seeing this waveform in the timeline, so this strange audio actually was embedded into the subclip when it was created via Media Management Copy.
Needless to say, this is disturbing. I'm relieved that I tested the new subclips for this one original file before I ever proceeded to batch-process any more clips and ended up ruining some of my hard work.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?
So I set out to test some of the new subclips (which I figured were now Clips in their own right) and put them on a timeline. All seemed fine, until I noticed I didn't have audio. I knew the solution. The original clip was recorded in Stereo, but really had only one channel, and it was channel two. So all I had to do was make embedded channel 2 the first and only channel, and change the track to Mono. This works every time. But this time was different. The audio I was hearing bared NO RESEMBLANCE to the original audio. Instead, I was hearing a robotic series of tones, similar to what you might hear if you synthesize a square wave. I wasn't just hearing it, I was seeing this waveform in the timeline, so this strange audio actually was embedded into the subclip when it was created via Media Management Copy.
Needless to say, this is disturbing. I'm relieved that I tested the new subclips for this one original file before I ever proceeded to batch-process any more clips and ended up ruining some of my hard work.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?