Can’t get rid of unwanted movie window playback

[David Polich]

It happened again. Working on a project, started
playback, a “ghost track” started playing whenever
I engaged play. Turned off all tracks except the
master fader...still heard the “ghost track” playing.
Opened the movie window..there it was, the movie
window is playing back an mp3. I had no idea
how the mp3 got inadvertently imported. The
worst part though..I couldn’t figure out how to
kill the movie window playback, or how to get rid
of the imported mp3, which did not show up in
the soundbites window list.

I finally had to save and close the project, create
a new project, load the audio files from the corrupted
project into the new project, and all was well.

Anyone have any idea how to get rid of an
audio file that has been accidentally imported into
the movie window?

[Helen]

Well, my first thing would be to try to reimport the video. But that doesn't help with the ghost importing if it happens again.

I had no idea that DP would mess with the audio of a film like that, I've never seen it. What's most disturbing is that it happened with a file that wasn't actually a project soundbite. So my first guess is that there's some kind of location reference that is mixed up within either DP or your Mac. I would 1) create a backup, then 2) use a disk utility like Tech Tool Pro to make sure your directories on your hard drives are all good. If that wasn't the problem, I'd run a full set of diagnostics on the hard drives. You might also consider reinstalling DP.

Alternatively, you could get a new hard drive and transfer what you need over to it, and see if that fixes the problem.

Of course, calling MOTU would probably help, but it's a weird thing to have DP interacting with music that wasn't actually brought into the project. Is the mp3 something that is part of a different project? Could there be a similar file name that is causing problems with how DP references it?

Hmm. Sorry if I rambled. It's a very interesting problem, though if I was having it I would be bashing my head against my desk. If you solve it and have time, I'd love to hear what happened.

[stubbsonic]

I haven't worked with video in a long time, but I vaguely recall that was not a bug but a feature.

Here. I'll go check some things and BRB.

Yea, it uses a nested QT player, and it does play the audio from the video. I don't know if there's an option to remove the audio on import, but there is a way to export the video from QT pro without the audio. At any rate, just turn the volume slider down on the QT player window and your good to go.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I don't understand how the movie track would load an MP3. I've never tried to do that but the file type is wrong. Is the errant audio playing as the movie track, or as a separate entity? Do you recognize the MP3? Any idea where that is from, or did it just appear out of nowhere?

[David Polich]

It was an mp3 sitting in a folder of other mp3 mixes
elsewhere on my drive. Not from another DP project.
Weird.

Anyway, all good now, I solved the issue by creating
a new blank project and then using the “Load”
command to load the sequence from the problem
project..it did not result in the mp3 being imported
again.