Audio – used on board and sennheiser mic during recording – capture issue w/ FCP

[Renjith]

Try capture in mono mode. Un lock ur sterio mode in capture window.

Thanx

Renjith

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.

Next:
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or
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[Dog Food]

OK.

1. I throuh away preferences

2. I captured a sample clip using the “NOW” capture mode…. using the “MONO” setting in the “log and capture” / “clip setting: window

the clip captured perfectly.. jus the way i wanted it to… when I looked at it in the viewer it had two tracks!

THE problem is this.. All of my clips were logged in the “MONO” setting, and yet when I capture these clips using the “batch capture” they only come back with 1 rack as opposed to when I use capture “now” they are in stereo..

YIKES..

any thoughts?

: )

[Jeremy Garchow]

Are you capturing straight form the camera or though a deck and capture card? What easy setup are you using? Don’t use capture now, we can fix the problem.

[Dog Food]

Thanks Jeremy,

I am caturing through a camera PV-GS32 (picked up at costco).

I used capture “NOW” as opposed to “Batch Capture” as a test. Of course I was nervous that my problem was with my original recording… but when I used capture “NOW”, I got 2 seperate tracks.

I am using a custom set up. I shot in 16:9 squeeze/24p mode. My settings are 16:9/anamorphic.

Thanks for the help. I am eager to get past this hump.

[Dog Food]

Well,

I found the error… I logged the tapes with the “audio format” set at “MONO” (in the “log and capture” – “clip settings” window) ..

Now heres the problem..

when I go into the “BIN” it will not allow me to change the audio format of the clips.. neither the captured nor the offline clips.

How do I change the audio format in the BIN of 2000 logged clips..??????? When I right click it only give me the options of

A1
MONO MIX
B1

I need
CH 1 + CH 2

thanks for your help!

[Jeremy Garchow]

For the offline clips, you can select them all in the browser, right click (or control click if you don’t have a two button mouse) and select clip settings from the drop down menu and change the audio format from 1 channel mono to two channel either dual mono or stereo. For the ones you have already captured, you will unfortunately need to recapture. You can take them offline and do the above method, or you can select them all, control click and select batch capture, UNCHECK used logged clip settings, and set up the logging preferences for dual mono or stereo.

Good luck.

Jeremy

[Dog Food]

thanks jeremy,

I think you met right click and go to “item properties” and then “format”

correct..?

I tried this many times and FCP will not give me the option to change the audio format to anything other than

A1
MONO
A2

…
this is killing me..

when I re-log a test clip and have the “clip settings” at “CH 1 + CH 2” and then capture the test clip… I get the audio exactly the way i taped it.. 2 seperate tracks

There has to be a way to change the audio format besides re-logging 2000 clips!!

I have even tried copying the clips and putting them in a new project.. NADA!!

yikes

any other thoughts?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[dog food] “I think you met right click and go to “item properties” and then “format”

correct..?”

Nope, clip settings. Right above item properties.

[Dog Food]

Above “item properties”

is

“copy”

??