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Any had this?
Have an intermittent problem with the audio side of some captures. We seem to get what sound like wireless mic hits, but after checking, they are not on the source tape. Have switched cables, drives, everything I can think of. Still appears intermittently, Driving us nuts! Any help greatly appreciated.
Running a G5 FCP5 w/Lacie External Drives. Deck is a DVCPro 250 capturing through firewire. OSX tiger, all software up to date.
Barry
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Monitor audio from the deck, NOT the Mac. Since audio is downsampled out of the Mac, you will often hear audio anomalies if you are not monitoring properly. Of course you should also monitor your video out of the deck as well. This is all a part of basic system setup, as shown in the manual.
Of course, many people don’t bother setting up for monitoring audio and video in the way Apple intended you to. It’s all ’bout reading the manual….:-)
Kevin Monahan
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It could be a deck compatability issue. Our entire group was using the 250s and had simalar unexplained audio issues, deck control inconsistancies and timecode errors. We’ve switched to the Panasonic AJ-SD93s and most of our problems went away.
In fact, I believe the 250 is not on the approved device list (the 255 is)
https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/pdf/FinalCutPro_5.0_Qualified_20051114.pdfGood luck
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I don’t have another deck to try right now. The same deck has worked flawlessly on the road with my laptop. Will see if I can scrounge another deck and try that.
Barry
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Do you happen to have a Nextel or Xingular phone sitting near your mixer or computer? If you do, did you capture your problem clips with the phone on near you? I know this is a far fetched idea, but I have heard wireless mic type hits on some show recordings while a nextel phone was near the audio booth.
I just love editing and you start to hear the Nextel or Xingular pulsing in the monitor speakers and you turn to the producer and say…you are about to get a call. He looks at me funny and his phone rings 🙂
Andy
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No we’re up North in Canada, but I’ve had countless problems with Blackberries and wireless mics. We moved to Lectrosonics a while back and that seems to have resolved that problem. A more wide open bandwidth I guess. Good suggestion though I appreciate the response.
Barry
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