• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  edit to tape – no sound (intermitent fault Kona)

  Posted by Andrew Shanks on October 19, 2007 at 3:41 am

  Hi guys,
  we’ve got a curly question, we have a kona LHe running off FCP6 (new Mac Pro setup). Have just got to editing to tape (inserting to tape using the edit to tape function) and have found that more times than not the audio will not go out to tape but UV meters in FCP are showing levels (just no sound coming out of card). You can then do a restart of FCP and (sometimes) the audio will miraculously start working (no settings changed). It is frustrating to say the least. Does anyone have any suggestions (we have tried trashing the FCP prefs file).

  Cheers,

  andrew

  Andrew Shanks replied 18 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Soreyrith Um

  October 19, 2007 at 4:39 am

  I have FCP6 running on Mac Pro with LHe, too. I get this very same problem now and then, but I’ve never been able to fix it by just closing and restarting FCP. However, trashing preferences always worked.

  Changing the audio/video settings seems to cause this problem to happen more often.

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  Adam Taylor

  October 19, 2007 at 7:27 am

  I had a fault on the breakout box of my Kona 3. The 2 RCA audio outs were causing an intermittent loss of signal, even though the sdi embedded audio out worked fine. The solution was having the breakout box replaced!

  Not sure which output you are using, but its worth knowing about!

  rgds
  Adam

  Editor/Mixer
  Character Options Ltd
  Oldham, UK
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  Andrew Shanks

  October 21, 2007 at 4:28 am

  We’re still unsure of what the issue was, …the only thing we can think of that was different in that project was that the editor had tried using the send to motion – send to FCP to round trip a motion graphic, even with rendering a new clip (and importing it as a stand alone animation) into that project (and replacing the motion project link) it still was weird.

  The Solution: exported quicktime reference of timeline from dodgy project, created fresh new project, imported clip, dropped into new timeline, output to tape. That new project we did previews out with numerous times as well as a couple of test outputs to tape with, worked fine, no sign of the random sound muting issue, …very strange, but at least that work around seems to work.

  Cheers,

  andrew

  🙂

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