• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP5 and the GL2, sound and graphics issues

  Posted by Ryan Hinkle on October 19, 2005 at 4:17 pm

  I’m a producer for a small music company creating a lot of web and DVD promotional vids. We have a modest studio, using a Canon GL2. Our problems deal with sound and graphics.

  Sound – We need to mic 3 things simultaneously: voice, guitar, computer output sounds. We bought an XLR connector (2 jacks for stereo L+R) and the GL2 also has a 1/8″ mic input on the side. Can we put 2 mics in the XLR’s and separate channels into their respective tracks FCP5? And can we run a 3rd mic into the 1/8″ jack and have it all on tape? Will the camera cut out one or the other?

  Graphics – for the life of me I cannot figure out which compression setting to use for graphics. We have interviews that cut back to show animated diagrams created with Motion using still JPEGs. The Motion files look crisp and defined. But when we finally render it to MPEG or burn it on to DVD, it looks pixelated and muddy. What am I doing wrong?

  Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

  Alexander Kallas replied 20 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joseph Bradley

  October 20, 2005 at 1:03 am

  Well, this is quite a problem. First off, the Sound should be recorded using three different recorders then each track is put onto FCP on it’s own track. Yes, if you plug your xlr and the 1/8 mike in at the same time you will lose one and maybe both sound input levels because the camera doesn’t know which one to use. As far as graphics, use a 720×680 at 72dpi for a standard 29.97 timeline.
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  Alexander Kallas

  October 20, 2005 at 4:14 am

  [jbrad2] ” Well, this is quite a problem. First off, the Sound should be recorded using three different recorders then each track is put onto FCP on it’s own track. Yes, if you plug your xlr and the 1/8 mike in at the same time you will lose one and maybe both sound input levels because the camera doesn’t know which one to use. “
  Not really correct.
  The miniplug terminal takes the output from the XLR adapter, you MUST plug it in else the adapter is isolated and you are using the camera’s on-bord microphone/s ONLY.
  So you can only record 2 different tracks (read your users manual for the adapter)
  Once in FCP you can copy and paste either track, or dupicate and triplicate etc. etc. But remember you will only have two different origional souce tracks.
  Cheers
  Alexander

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