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Can I Record video and sound from a seperate input (sync) into FCP
I have a prosumer video camera and can’t afford a HVX 200. Anyway, this camera has an external mic input, but the audio sounds very hissy and and has a buit in filter that lowers the noise any time sound VO is present.
Anyway, I am looking for a cheap work-around. Can I firewire my camera into FCP and then take a seperate mic source and be able to get sunc-sound in FCP? This would save me a lot of headache and money right now.
Thanks.
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That’s not a big problem. People do it all the time. Usually we have the same
timecode associated with both the video and the audio, but you can still do it and
sync up manually.Load in both the video and the audio you don’t like from your DV camera.
(use that as a reference for sync).
Then load in your external audio. (I’m not sure how you plan to do that
since you didn’t mention the device you will use to record the audio).
Now bring them both onto a timeline and while listening to all the audio
tracks, slide one or the other around until they are synced.
Pretty simple once you do it a few times.
After you get them in sync, simply delete the audio tracks you don’t want to use.It gets complicated when you have many takes and the camera starts and stops,
but if this is what you want to do, that’s how you do it. Of course, if you can
use a timecode generator and feed both the camera and a hard drive audio
recorder with the same timecode, then you do what a lot of us do on shoots
to protect our audio feed. But that costs more, obviously.Dan
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Cool. I did do that a long time ago with a slate. I will use a mixer and an Mbox for recording. I may have mis asked the question. Can I record or capture video simutaneously in FCP for sync sound.
Thanks.
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with analog sources through a capture card (Blackmagic/AJA….) and using “capture now” you sure could… :-/ but not sure you would want to. If you’re recording into protools (mbox),, just export an aif with the same properties as your project and marry in FCP.
Colin McQuillan
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thanks, I will take the easier way until I can afford a better camera.
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If you are overdubbing the sound in Pro Tools or have captured the sound live, you can import a finished version of your quicktime video file into Pro Tools, line up everything in your time line in Pro Tools and bounce it out and combine them in DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut or whatever your finishing app is. This is easy in Pro Tools, choose import video( this is in the newest version, I believe the last version had a different option but you will be able to find it easy)then your video will be there and you can manually sync everything.
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