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Audio Question
I’m not sure if I’m in the right thread, but I am wanting to copy music from a Music Cassette onto a CD. I have FCP5 and a Canopus ADVC300 if you needed to know, and I’m not sure how to do it, or even if it can be done. Can someone advise me?
Cheers Anna -
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Given your equipment and software (there are plenty of other ways to do this) just capture audio-only from the cassette into FCP.
Edit anything out (or extra pauses IN) on the FCP timeline.
Make separate “cuts” (separate timelines is a “sure” way to do this) if you want the CD to have multiple “cuts”.
Choose: File (menu) > Export > Audio to AIFF(S).
After the export, drop the new file(s) into a new empty iTunes window (Name the iTunes Window what you want to call the CD) and rearrange the “cuts” into the order you want them to play.
In iTunes, choose: iTunes (menu) > Preferences > Burning > (choose) Audio CD.
Burn the CD.
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thanks for the email. But my problem is not knowing how to capture the audio from the cassette. Do I need to connect cable etc…
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Kind of basic stuff, here.
Connect the cassette player’s outputs to the audio inputs on the Canopus.
Capture in FCP “Audio Only” with “Non-controllable Device” as your source control.
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Anna,
If you can’t get Matte’s suggestion to work, there’a a really cool little free audio capture software called Audacity that works great. You come out of the 1/8th” stereo headphone jack on even cheap cassette players and into the back of your G4 or front of our G5. Amazing little app, it has no capture limit, I used it last year to archive a bunch of tapes for a radiologist office.
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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