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Importing captured P2 footage into FCP 4.5
I’m importing P2 footage shot on the HVX200 into my FCP 4.5 system (G5 1.6, 2GB).
After shooting I copied the P2 cards onto a drive, then took them to a friend’s newer computer and Log and Transferred them. Then brought them to my workstation and imported them into a new session. No problems with this workflow at all except I only get 1 track of audio instead of the 2 that we shot.
Any suggestions as to how to get that second track?
Thanks.Kevin
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Look at the clip in the BROWSER…under TRACKS what does it say?
Shane
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It says 1V, 1A
But when I open the clip in the Capture Scratch folder with QT there are clearly two tracks of audio. -
Many moons ago,Quicktime was upgraded to allow more than two tracks of audio. Since you are on an ancient system with the old QT, the audio config in your new QT files will be foreign to the old QT, hence the trouble reading the audio properly.
I recall this was a common complaint around the time of this QT upgrade.
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Actually, it was that QT didn’t support more than 2 tracks of audio. Now it supports 16. But that isn’t it. Might have to be something related to P2 and FCP 4.5 not dealing with it, even after converting it to DVCPRO HD Quicktime.
Just a guess…I have no idea how FCP 4.5 interfaces with QT created in this way.
Shane
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Many many moons ago, I worked in a similar workflow (it was a 48 Hour Film project, which made it even more insane). Ingested P2 on a 5.1 machine, and then had an assistant cut scenes on a 4.5 machine after we duped the media onto his drive. Similar problem- instead of 4 channels of audio coming in, I think there was 2, but it might’ve been one. At the time, I had no time to figure out what the problem was, so he edited away and handed me the scenes. I match framed them in 5.1 and brought the 4 audio channels back, and that worked pretty well.
Maybe the gurus here will have a way to fix that, but you might have to do a workaround like I did, which could be a huge pain in the butt.
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