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Audio Playthrough when Capturing FCP
Hi
When capturing footage, the audio only plays from my Camera’s speaker
is there some way to make it play through the mac? -
2 Replies
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Check the “preview” box in “Clip Setting” tab in Log and Capture.
DRW
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[DerekKent] “When capturing footage, the audio only plays from my Camera’s speaker
is there some way to make it play throug”Derek,
It’s supposed to play out of the DV deck or DV Camcorder.You are supposed to set up both your speakers and your video monitor out of the DV Deck or DV Camcorder. Check basic system setup in the manual. You can also use David’s advice if you are cutting offline and don’t want to monitor external audio and video.
But trust me, you are in a much better position to monitor audio and video externally. You can monitor the true quality of your audio. If you monitor from the Mac, the built in port downsamples audio, resulting in anomalies from time to time that aren’t actually there. You’ll also be able to see the TRUE quality of your rendered fx, color correction, titles and graphics. If you judge by what you see on the Canvas, you’ll be fooled and in time will be one of the “masses” that posts, “My Graphics Look Terrible” – whereas if you were monitoring video properly, you would not be fooled as to your final quality.
The truth is: Hardly anyone monitors external audio and video. Why? Either they don’t know they need to do this (didn’t read the manual) or can’t afford a pro video monitor which, granted, are not cheap – nor are good studio audio monitors. However, it is a GREAT advantage to monitor audio and video externally as you do on any pro system, like Avid Media Composer, etc.
At least everyone should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of not monitoring output as you work. Obviously, there’s a lot of pitfalls if you only work with FCP on the computer monitor with speakers connected to the Mac.
Makes sense?
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