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Audio Channels 3 & 4 Capture Nightmare…Help needed
Good afternoon…
Having some major issues doing what we are sure should be a simple thing. Using Final Cut Pro Studio.
We have some interviews that were filmed in HDV. They used the audio channel inputs for channels 3 and 4, as they were mounted on the back of the camera and were easier to get to on the Sony camera they shot on.
2 whole tapes were captured on a Sony M25 deck this morning, before anyone noticed the audio was missing.
Now we cant capture the audio.
The channel select button on the front of the deck does’nt change anything. The options on it are: 1/2 – MIX / 3/4
I’ve found one mention of this problem back in 2006 on another video forum. they suggest making a custom capture setting in Final Cut Pro, and change the audio to capture channels 3 and 4 there.
Unfortunately when trying to do this, the Quicktime Audio Settings has a missing error. Like this : [Missing) Quicktime Audio .
Currently capturing it playing out of a Camera via composite leads into the deck and then capturing down converted footage with the audio.
Tried capturing straight from the camera but the same problems still persists.
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I don’t have that deck and haven’t tried this, but do you have a capture card?
If so, can you hook up the deck to it, capture analog HD video and then hook up the analog audio outs, now change the front panel to 3/4. Does that send 3/4 out of the deck?
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Caution: I could be fantasizing.
Like Jeremy, I don’t have the camera, don’t have the deck, shoot, never shot HDV.
Here’s a hack and I have no idea if it works these days. This is how we used to do it back int he Olden Days before QT could handle four channels.
You’ll be capturing audio only, uncontrolled device, using audio outputs from the deck through some interface that will get your audio into the Mac. That might mean hooking the XLRs on the deck to the phone inputs on a DVCAM so you can get the audio out via FW.
You will then have to manually sync the 3/4 audio-only clip to the video. And you can count on the sync drifting after a few minutes.bogiesan
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[Jon Draper] “The channel select button on the front of the deck does’nt change anything. The options on it are: 1/2 – MIX / 3/4 “
We have the M15U and we can capture 3/4 no problem once we switch the Audio Output menu on the Deck.
Or you can capture via Firewire and capture all four channels of audio at the same time. You will only hear Channels 1/2 during digitizing, but all four channels will play back once it’s in the system.
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