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Hi hi,

I am editing a movie in final cut. i use dv files. but when i am playingback the movie i just see video and don't hear any sound....

Can someone help me?
 
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I take it, that when you say 'playingback the movie', you mean within FC.

Open one of the DV files in QuickTime player and do a Command-I on it to see the audio settings. Does it play back with audio in QuickTime Player? If I recall right, the audio codec should say "DV, Stereo, 48.000 kHz". I don't have a native dv file handy and had to create on to see that.
 
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hi hi,

yes i mean when i playback the movie in FC.
When i opening a dv file in quicktime it plays sound and also shows me the same audio codec.....

But what can help me to play also the sound in FC?

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i am just looking around and i saw in my audio preference of the dv files they have 32 bits floating point. could this be the problem?
 
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when you play the movie in QT, does it show a separate video AND audio file? For Final Cut to use the sound, the video needs to be demuxed (audio separated from the video)
 
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Here are the details from one of my DV files as downloaded from the camera. I'm using NTSC.

DV, 720 x 480 (640 x 480), Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo, 48.000 kHz​

I think you have to convert your audio portion to be 48kHz.

If when you scrub through your material in FC you can hear audio, but you get a beeping sound when simply playing back, then I'm pretty sure this is the issue. There would be a red bar on the top of the timeline for affected clips when something needs rendering, which can include audio.
 
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Here are the details from one of my DV files as downloaded from the camera. I'm using NTSC.

DV, 720 x 480 (640 x 480), Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo, 48.000 kHz​

I think you have to convert your audio portion to be 48kHz.

If when you scrub through your material in FC you can hear audio, but you get a beeping sound when simply playing back, then I'm pretty sure this is the issue. There would be a red bar on the top of the timeline for affected clips when something needs rendering, which can include audio.

xstep is right - unless you match your comp to the DV settings of your movie, then it'll have a grey bar on the top of the track, so you can scrub freely. :) It's best to create a new comp with the movie's settings then trying to fix an existing one after the fact.
 

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