Audio from analog tape

[John Fishback]

You need a capture card with analog inputs to capture the audio.

John

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[John Fishback]

I wrote card, but I should have said device. There are a number of “boxes” that will capture analog audio.

John

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[Chuck Reti]

You could patch the tape deck’s output to the Mac’s analog input and use Quicktime Pro’s audio recording option, then import into FCP. You may need to re-export from QT Pro (or go through iTunes) to have the resulting file be AIFF 48kHz to keep FCP happy.
There are also a few third-party share/freeware apps to do this. Search Versiontracker.com or macupdate.com.
Or, as suggested, get a simple analog to USB audio interface for digital capture and use the above to record.

[David Roth weiss]

If you have a camera or video deck, you can either patch your cassette deck through it and capture via FireWire, or just record the cassette to video tape along with color bars and then capture the tape.

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[Chris Babbitt]

I believe that in order to use the firewire method, there must also be a video signal present. The analog audio input works just fine, and you can capture directly into FCP.