FCPX killing me Exported DVD/Blu Ray Audio Crackling-Solved

I was beginning to get hooked to FCPX but all the little bugs are starting to kill me...49.99 to do this or that...
During all previews of my projects everything sounded great now I export to DVD/Blu Ray which still doesn't export the background or logo in Blu Ray....and no one can answer why?
I now have audio crackling and pops that never existed during the previews or .mov renders or exports....These little
bugs are really starting to make me want to go back to premiere...never had these issues with it...at least not as many...Im trying to be open to FCPX and the forum has been very helpful but geez really?
Simple things like exports after all the work shouldn't be so hard?

Where is your sound peaking before export?

Can you tell us what Mac you have, OS version, and fcpx version?

What are you using to review your dvd and bluray?

Btw I have done do dozens of jobs that have delivered bluray and dvd straight from #fcpx and I haven't seen any of these issues. I suspect it is something with your setup.

Mac Mini Server OS X 10.9.3 2.6 Ghz Core i7 8GB 1600 mhz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 4000
No peaking audio everything under 0 DB and mainly around -6db
Project audio set at surround sound 96 kHz
popping or crackling sounds only occurred in the export to DVD
Reviewing on Samsung 42" Smart TV
Final Cut Pro 10.1.2
I monitored the project during layout with external headphones and monitor speakers with no popping.
Just ran the whole video and average volume is -12db but ranges from -20db to -6db

A few more questions:

What kind of player are you using to review the DVD on the Samsung? Have you reviewed this on other DVD players? Perhaps the built in mac DVD player?

What kind of surround sound decoder are you using, if any when you review the DVD?

What surround sound decoder are you using to monitor surround audio out of FCPX?

Are you using the same speakers to monitor the DVD player as well as FCPX?

Why are you using mixing in 96K audio? Did you capture audio at 96K ?

I believe the crackling is a down grading issue from 1080p to DVD res of 720x480 I just watch it on
Blu Ray and the crackling isn't there? Yes we had some recording in 96 but I am reducing that today. I have to finish this tonight my deadline is tomorrow.
I have one issue now on the Blu Ray that the scrolling text and pan shots are jerky.
I am using an external Samsung Blu ray player on the Samsung Smart TV via HD cable. Its a cheap blu ray player and may be causing the jerky scrolling issue.

cb2014 wrote: I believe the crackling is a down grading issue from 1080p to DVD res of 720x480 I just watch it on Blu Ray and the crackling isn't there?

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying. However, the audio files, AC3, for BluRay and DVD are actually the same file. Are you saying that when you watch it one BluRay there is no crackling? If you play the DVD using the mac DVD Player app, does it still crackle?

cb2014 wrote: Yes we had some recording in 96 but I am reducing that today. I have to finish this tonight my deadline is tomorrow.

If you want to try this, you can just change the properties for your project timeline to 48K, no need to convert.

cb2014 wrote: I have one issue now on the Blu Ray that the scrolling text and pan shots are jerky.

I am using an external Samsung Blu ray player on the Samsung Smart TV via HD cable. Its a cheap blu ray player and may be causing the jerky scrolling issue.

There are many reasons why scrolling text can appear jerky, as well as panning shots. The TV refresh rate, the camera it was shot on, and I imagine the BluRay/DVD player. The jerky text is also caused when it is simply moving too quickly. Why don't you try slowing it down.

I changed audio to 48 but have not reburned in DVD yet...there is no popping on the blu ray export.
wish I could slow it down but its based on the time of clip. May issue maybe the project is in 1080p 30fps and Blur Ray is 25fps exported from FCPX

cb2014 wrote: May issue maybe the project is in 1080p 30fps and Blur Ray is 25fps exported from FCPX

Yep. That will cause all sorts of funny jerky motion. FCP will convert between frame rates, but it doesn't do any frame blending or other processes to clean up a conversion like that.

Something you might want to do is dupe your timeline and then see if you can change the frame rate to 25fps. Typically you always want to make your timeline the same frame rate as your deliverable.

If the project settings doesn't let you do it, then after you dupe the timeline, do a select all on the timeline, cut. Then change the frame rate and in project settings and then paste. It may prompt you again, but make sure you keep your 25fps.

Regarding your 25fps, the popping you are hearing could completely be the result of a DVD player not properly playing 25fps.

Changed project frame rate to 29.97 and export looks great THANKS!!!

That is great news.

By the way, if I could encourage you next time you post to be cautious about quickly calling something a bug. As you will probably discover many of the posts here where someone originally sighted a bug, are in fact a result of something else.

Keep on learning.

Thanks Tpayton but there are bugs I have experienced and crashes etc....lets face it all software especially software doing this much math for 300.00 can have its issues....I really like FCPX but some of the minor problems can be very time consuming and annoying like the constant loss of render files and re-rendering...I haven't changed anything in this project in two days but it keeps re-rendering every time I open or change from one to another...that takes hours of my limited time...I have deleted preferences several times still always losing its render files..

Indeed there are bugs, like anything else. However, to tell you the truth, most of the things I encounter on the forums are not bugs, but something wrong with a system or user error. For crashes those of course are not the norm, and are more than likely caused by third-party plugins, corrupted fonts, disk errors, etc. If you are getting a crash you should report it here and see if it can be reproduced. Also report to Apple of course.

About rendering. You might be interested to know that many pro FCPX users just don't render. On your machine which a slightly underpowered, you might need to, but frankly I never render, unless it is a small portion of a project that just won't play back in real time.

Check out this survey of folks and their workflow habits including rendering.

www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/...xport-what-do-you-do

I agree with Timothy that many issues that get reported as bugs finally turn to out be user errors. Which is perfectly understandable because this is new software for many people and we all keep learning every day.

One of the particular things about FCP X is how it handles render files when you constantly re-render clips: it never deletes the older render files unless you specifically tell it to do so.

The advantage to this is that no matter how many times you press Undo your clips will always stay rendered if there are old render files available.

The disadvantage is that these old render files may cause conflicts with te latest render files when you re-open a Project, causing FCP X to lose connection to the renders. This specifically happens with some third-party filters, and it happens much more often when you have Background Rendering turned on because Background Rendering constantly re-renders everything even when it is not required. That's why most of us keep Background Rendering turned off.

If you work on a fairly decent system you will find you hardly need to render anything at all. And if you do have to constantly re-render clips the best way to avoid render file corruption is to delete unused render files before you quit FCP X. You can do this within the UI.

- Ronny

Hi... Audio Crackling is usually caused by frequency and bit resolution differences between source material and playback engine. There is sometimes a bug in the mac where the finder's audio does not match the software's or source's sample rate and this is usually when crackling, playback speed differences, pitch shifting, and audio skipping occur. Is your mac set up in the audio midi setup to handle 96 khz playback from files? Technically it should just playback no matter what but sometimes.... Adjust and listen with the audio midi panel open for crackling sounds after setting it all accordingly..