• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP6 sound wont capture from Digital Betacam Tape

  Posted by Chris Scott on November 28, 2008 at 4:58 pm

  Hello

  I’m using FCP6 and trying to capture a digital betacam tape on a Sony J-30SDI, connected via firewire 400. The video captures fine but no audio.

  Capture Setting:
  Device control: Firewire PAL
  Capture/Input: DV PAL 48kHz

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Chris

  Chris Scott replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  November 28, 2008 at 8:16 pm

  I’d think you need to capture it as uncompressed SD, not DV…

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  Vincent Manuhuwa

  November 28, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  It’s perfectly possible to capture in DV with the J30.

  Chris your settings seem right.
  Are you sure the audio check box of the clip settings tab in the capture window is checked? That would be the most probable cause.

  Also do you have sound through the system when you just press play using the capture controls? (check the audio bars. If not, maybe a setting of the J30 is wrong, I believe you can change channels with one of the buttons left on the front, but i’m not sure if it influences the output through firewire.
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  Paul Dickin

  November 28, 2008 at 9:28 pm

  Hi
  The FW conversion to DV in the J-30 is as good as it gets, the best I’ve seen.
  The J-30 can be set in its Advanced Menu to access either Audio 1 & 2 of the Digibeta tape, or Audio 3 & 4 (or a mix of all 4). So that’s a setting that could be wrong.
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  Chris Scott

  November 29, 2008 at 10:33 am

  Vincent

  You can see the audio bars move up and down on the J-30. But in Log & Capture, there is no audio movement in the audio bars, with button checked or unchecked.

  I will have to investigate the J-30 on Monday. Thanks
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  Chris Scott

  November 29, 2008 at 10:36 am

  Jerry

  I will check this out first thing Monday morning, thanks for the help will let you know the results.

  Chris
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  Chris Scott

  November 29, 2008 at 10:45 am

  Paul

  Thanks for the response, I will check out the J-30 on Monday morning, and let you know the Advanced menu resolves the issue.

  Chris
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  Chris Scott

  December 1, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  Problem solved.

  The audio channels were set to 3&4 and needed to be on 1&2

  I needed to connect the J-30 up to a television, access the advanced menu. Change the iLink audio setting to channels 1&2.

  Thanks everyone for your help.

  Chris

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