Audio meters on capture

[Jeff Walker]

There is no setting to remind you of. The audio meters have never worked on capture and continue not to work on capture in FCP 5. Now that we finally have milticam you can be sure this will make the top of the most requested features list.

[Chip Monk (hd tech)]

ahh but there is a way and I have done it! but now that I upgraded to 5 I lost it. It was something in the prefs like speaker off or something.

[Alan Lacey]

I’m still on 4.5HD and would love to have audio meters live. What’s the trick?

Alan

[Jeff Walker]

Chip wrote: “ahh but there is a way and I have done it! but now that I upgraded to 5 I lost it. It was something in the prefs like speaker off or something.”

Please share with everyone how you did it. There are many still using FCP 4.5 and below that would love to make use of your work around. In my experience you are mistaken as there is no setting anywhere in FCP for audio meters on capture. I’ve even discussed it with members of the FCP team from Apple at NAB who acknowledge it’s never worked. Perhaps you discovered a secret no one else has stumbled on. I’d love to have meters on captue!

[Steve Courtney]

I haven’t actually done this myself, but to quote somebody else from the forum, they’re just hiding.

“When in Log & Capture, under the clip settings, open up the waveform and vector scope tab and POOF! the meters will show up. ”

Steve

[John Fishback]

Once you are actually capturing a clip, you won’t see the meters working.

However, you can see the meters as you are logging your ins and outs. We’re using an AJA IO so I’m not sure if this works across the board.

Make sure in View > Audio Playback menu you select ProIO (or probably whatever IO you’re using).

Make sure when you’re in capture mode that you’ve clicked the Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope button in the Clip Settings tab.

Now, when you play your clip, the meters should register. What I do is send a reference tone from my mixer and adjust it so when my mixer reads -10, the capture meters read -10. You can pick any level, I just pick -10 since that’s what I typcially peak to. Then, when you capture, adjust your levels on your mixer and the levels will be the same in FCP.

Hope this helps.

John

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