• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut Audio settings problem please advise…

  Posted by Visionsmith on April 20, 2006 at 3:29 pm

  I ingested a cassette of SonyHD footage in the main edit suite and transferred via network to my editing machine. We work on Macintosh only at my TV station.
  The footage arrived and when opened in Quicktime plays normally. But when imported into Final Cut Pro, the audio ceases to exist around the time where we attach the rifle-mike XLR.
  When I checked in the main Suite, the XLR audio got recorded on one track only, yet on my machine, the wrong track is the only one that gets imported.

  I have tried audio settings, project settings, preferences et al, but can’t seem to have success in bringing across my interviews and speaches. I have even started new sequences and projects, in hope that new settings would only take action in such a case, but no success.
  The help file is also not helpful.
  Is there anyone who has had this problem before and got it figured out?
  Your advice would be much appreciated.

  Thanking you
  Visionsmith

  Experiencing the African mystery

  Visionsmith replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Luke David

  April 20, 2006 at 6:41 pm

  Here is a potential work-around; export a mono audio track from quicktime. you can find it under your file/export/audio/options setting in QT. Not the best solution, but if you are in a jam, this will at least get the audio in there.
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  Visionsmith

  April 21, 2006 at 11:35 am

  Thanks Icdavid
  Problem is, right now, I do not yet have QT Pro. Only QT player 7.04. It does not export.

  Strange though, I am busy working on a music video production for which I successfully recorded and transferred the same route. It must be a settings change on the ingest machine, which is a more updated version than mine(FC pro 4.5), since my previous capture.

  Experiencing the African mystery
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  Visionsmith

  April 21, 2006 at 11:40 am

  Correction!
  The music video footage audio came from the onboard mic, not the XLR’s.
  The audio was also imported as one track only, not two. So the problem would most likely have shown then, had I used riflemic and an XLR input.

  Experiencing the African mystery
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  Visionsmith

  April 21, 2006 at 11:48 am

  Ah!
  Just for the record; The best solution seems to be to place the footage on the timeline in the edit suite, erase the quiet track, move in the sound track and export to the hard drive.

  Experiencing the African mystery

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